PeriOpMan Annual General Meeting
07.11.2025 17:30 @ Manchester Royal Infirmary, Anaesthetic Seminar Room and online
Attendees : Mohan Shanmugam, Amarjeet Patil, Jay Rajagopalan, Danny Conway, Manoj Sanwal, Tina Duff, Cliff Shelton, Mohamed Mahmoud, Ravindi Gunaratne, Swamy Mruthunjaya
Apologies : Thomas Morris
Chairperson Report Nov 2025 : Tina Duff
The committee discussed our use of social media to raise the profile of PeriOpMan. This has been successful in the past but requires significant input. Manoj is continuing to promote the PeriOpMan Society on social media platforms supported by Swamy. We will all need to take an active role in supporting this with Manoj leading. Trainee reps should also be involved with this.
Discussions about hospital representatives for PeriOpMan across the Northwest to continue to raise the profile of the society and to increase membership. An approach to this needs to be agreed at the next meeting and contact with colleagues at these hospitals established.
The low attendance at the face-to-face meeting discussed. Late marketing of the events felt to be most relevant factor. Costs associated with travel and subsistence also make hybrid meetings a popular choice with many delegates.
We reviewed the need to continue to advertise our ability to fund small grants to assist with local perioperative projects. Discussions about advertising this funding across the NW anaesthetic and ICM trainee networks and at our own meetings.
The committee wanted to thank dr Rajit Khosla for his excellent IT support for our online and face-to-face meetings. He has been instrumental in ensuring the smooth running of these events. We were also able to trial a hybrid approach to our face-to-face meeting, this proved successful, and we will discuss the use of this approach for our 2026 meeting.
The committee are also very grateful to Dr Mohamed Mahmoud for representing The PeriOpMan Society at Salford Royal Foundation Trust and his efforts to secure speakers for our recent meetings. His help and enthusiasm are an asset to the society.
The committee is delighted to welcome our new trainee representatives Dr Ravindi Gunaratne and Dr Tom Morris. They have already assisted with the delivery of the PeriOpMan Annual Conference and are planning the trainee meeting for the 27[th] of February 2026. We will be asking them to help advertise the society at other trainee events across the Northwest.
We have agreed that all committee members should be paid members of the society. Fees for membership discussed and we agree that these should increase in the next financial year as there has not been a price increase for 5 years and this is now important to reflect the increasing costs of organising and hosting educational events.
Feedback from meetings suggests that talks that are very technical are least popular. We will ask for a synopsis from our speakers and endeavour to be specific about the content we would like them to cover in their presentations.
To consider parallel sessions at our nest face-to face meeting to enable a breadth of topics that may be more appealing to our AHP colleagues.
Next meeting to be held on Zoom 03.12.25
’ General Secretary s Report Nov 2025 : Jay Rajagopalan
The past year has been eventful one for our society.
Executive Comittee :
Dr Amarjeet Patil joined us as treasurer replacing Dr Nick Wisely. We also welcomed Ravindi Gunaratne and Dr Thomas Morris join us as our new Resident ( trainee/fellow ) representatives after a round of competitive interviews on 18th June 2025. Dr
Mohammed Mahmoud and Dr Rajit Khosla joined us as part of the extended comittee to help organise the Neuro meeting and the annual scientific meeting.
Grant :
In keeping with our commitment to promote local projects in perioperative medicine with small grants We have had sucessful grant application from Dr Adam Dobson for IV cannulation training project. He also presented his project at our annual scientific meeting - PeriopMan 2025
Events:
We have held 3 successful Events this year.
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PeriopMan Neuro - 9th May 2025- online meeting - 85 attendees
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North West Airway Meeting -30th Sept 2025 - in person meeting at the NEST building, Wythenshawe, Manchester -41 attendees
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PeriopMan 2025- 17th Oct 2025 - in person meeting at Manchester Conference Centre, Manchester -36 attendees. We also offered free spaces to 11 perioperative nurses and 1 medical student for this meeting.
We have delayed our Trainee meeting due to change in the trainee reps in June. This is to allow them time to get used to the role before organising the meeting. We did not conduct an Obstetric meeting this year as NW Obs meeting was merged with a Cardiac Obstetric meeting.
Forward Plan :
Periopman Trainee Meeting
Feb 2026 Specialist Cancer meeting
May 2026 Annual Scientific meeting
Oct 2026 NW regional anaesthesia meeting - to be confirmed NW airway meeting - to be confirmed
Treasurer Report Nov 2025 : Amarjeet Patil
Accounts submitted. Please see attached document detailing accounts.
Membership Secretary Nov 2025 : Manoj Sanwal
Membership numbers stand at 50.
Online platform is working well.
We need to actively promote membership at our online and face to face meetings.
We can also utilise our local ACE day meetings to have marketing and membership information available for colleagues. This could be done at both MFT and SRFT.
Agreement at the AGM that all committee members should be paid members of PeriOpMan.
IT Report Nov 2025 : Mohan Shanmugam
Events
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IT logistics for the 2 in-person events & 1 online event over the past year were managed without any hiccups and IT interactions in registrations, user access, receipt management, feedback & certifications were managed smoothly.
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Online-only events still need some dedicated support for attendees on the day to help with login, etc as there’s lingering unfamiliarity amongst a section of attendees with any of the online platforms (Zoom, Teams or GotoMeeting).
Membership
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Membership registrations are preferred via card payments through Stripe on website to ensure provisioning of user registration & maintaining access to event media.
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Direct debits have replaced standing order option in the new iteration of website to facilitate user provisioning – 4 outstanding standing orders are yet to transition.
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New member registrations are passed on to membership secretary at frequent intervals.
Social media
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Twitter account has a good reputation amongst perioperative medicine and academic community. Manoj & Swamy kindly continue to manage this account
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We should also explore other avenues on social media to advertise and engage with the community.
Admin
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Julie Laing supports admin at some in-person events.
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John Prince continues to support marketing for events.
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The email traffic on info@periopman.co.uk goes up significantly peri-event and is operationally supported by Manoj
Website
The website has been redeveloped from ground up to improve features & user experience. Here’s the current feature set in brief:
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Migrated from previous CMS solution (WordPress) to a complete manual build
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Hosting platform migrated to Digital Ocean for near-instant responsiveness
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UI/UX upgraded entirely
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Event booking module
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12 level pricing model can be implemented at will for any event. 3 grades with virtual or f2f pricing and membership discount options for each.
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Mutually Exclusive Sub Events - to limit occupancy for popular workshops
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Google maps integration in events page
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Automated event booking confirmation & receipt
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Virtual or hybrid event setups can send meeting link to attendees
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Coming soon option to advertise potential future events
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Attendee confirmation system – every attendee gets a QR code which can be scanned to confirm attendance for in-person events
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Membership module
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Clear distinction between users & Members.
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Users are predominantly everyone in the system.
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Members are the ones who have an active subscription.
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Logged in user can see their past events, media, receipts and setup profile
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Membership discounts can be offered at event-level
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Subscriptions are managed via Stripe to ensure financial / data protection
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Media module
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All events have the option to upload various media
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These will be accessible to event-level attendees with their unique attendee ID
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Members can see any past event media when logged in
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Abstracts/Projects module
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Options for event-level abstracts and open grants or projects
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Privacy policy updated
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Invoices generated during membership creation, membership renewal and event booking have been updated
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Support contact management system
Expect on next iteration :
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Discounts module – generic, member-level, event specific, early bird, etc
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Streamline membership registration process
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Admins – various admin levels will be created to enable member management, event management and contact management
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Media embargo for non-attending members
Research Report Nov 2025:
Unavailable at AGM
Small grant funding has been given to a local initiative to improve cannulation training. Dr Adam Dobson has presented his project at our PeriOpMan Conference.
We will continue to support perioperative projects locally.
Trainee Rep Report Nov 2025 :
Our new trainee representatives, Dr Ravindi Gunaratne and Tom Morris, were welcomed to the committee in July this year and they have supported the committee in delivering our annual PeriOpMan Conference. Dr Gunaratne and Dr Morris will be delivering an online trainee meeting on the 27[th] of February 2026
Actions:
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Price increase for membership of the Perioperative Manchester Medicine Society to be agreed for 2026 -2027 financial year.
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All committee members to be paid members of Perioperative Manchester Medicine Society
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Marketing and Membership stands to be available at our next face-to-face meeting and at local ACE day events.
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Establish local representatives at Northwest hospitals to increase awareness and membership.
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Contact speakers for our online perioperative medicine and cancer meeting.
Perioperatve Medicine Society
Treasurer’s Report
Prepared by: Dr. Amarjeet Patil, Treasurer Period Covered: March 2024 – February 2025
Date: 06.11.2025
1. Introducton
As Treasurer of the Perioperative Medicine Society, I am pleased to present the financial report for the period March 2024 – February 2025. This report outlines our income, expenditure, and overall financial standing, ensuring transparency and accountability for our members.
2. Financial Summary
| Category | March 2024 – February 2025 (£) |
Comments |
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| OpeningBalance | £37,600.37 | as of 29.02.2024 |
| Income | ||
| Membership fees | 1,295.00 | (25 x 9) – declined, 25 X 7 = DD, 125 Refunded |
| Conference fees | 8,575.00 | Airway and Trauma (150 x 3, 50 x 2, 25 x 11) – declined |
| Sponsorship | 900.00 | Through stripe + Mediplus + Octapharma |
| Miscellaneous | 840.00 | Vilfor Pharma UK Ltd – disputedpayment |
| Prize refund | 50.00 | |
| Total Income | £11,660.00 | |
| Expenditure | ||
| Venue/meetngcost | 7605.00 | Iqsa Hermes |
| IT Services | 974.37 | Google G suite/Digital Ocean/Ice Cube Tech/Zoom/Vimeo |
| Admin | 568.75 | John Prince – fees/ printng |
| Miscellaneous | 3559.67 | Easy books/amazon speaker’s vouchers/mobilephone/Commitee |
| dinner – Dosa King/Video | ||
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| Stripe fees | 186.49 | |
| Prize | 350.00 | |
| Cash removal | 200 | |
| Peropman Grant | 500.00 | Alexander Isted |
| Total Expenditure | £13,944.28 | |
| Closing Balance | £35,456.97 | As of 28.02.2025 |
| NET | £-2284.28(actual£-2284.28) | Diference £00.00 |
3. Financial Highlights / Analysis
The society couldn’t achieve a profit this year.
4. Future Outlook / Recommendatons
For the next financial year, we should aim to maintain a balanced budget while supporting more educational activities. Efforts will be made to secure more membership and external sponsorship for our upcoming national meeting.
5. Acknowledgement
I would like to thank the Chair, committee members, and organisers for their support in maintaining sound financial practices throughout the year.
Dr. Amarjeet Patil Treasurer – Perioperative Medicine Society Date: 07.11.2025