Surveys
ABS Workforce Survey
The ABS needs to determine current and future breast workforce requirements so we can plan future service as well as training numbers and programmes.
The current job plan, career goals and retirement plans are vital to breast workforce planning so please be honest and add any free text if you feel is relevant as the questions are not exhaustive.
We would request that members liaise with their colleagues and please complete the survey ONLY ONCE per unit
Thank you for your time.
ABS MDT Survey
Multidisciplinary team meetings (MDTs) are an important part of our work. Please help us understand the current practice to help us review the MDT toolkit by taking part in this survey, which aims to evaluate the impact of MDTs on Breast Surgeons in the United Kingdom. It will include questions about your current MDT workload and any measures implemented to streamline the MDT process.
This survey will take approximately 10 minutes to complete.
Please note: the closing date is Monday 9th December.
Please complete the surveySubmit a Survey
If you would like to submit a survey to gain input from the ABS membership please email the survey to lucydavies@absgbi.org.uk
All surveys must be from, or endorsed by, an ABS or Mammary Fold member. Approved surveys will also be circulated in the ABS newsletter or monthly bulletin emails.
The SH-CORE study is a 10-15 minute online Delphi survey, developed by a research team at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Please complete the survey to help develop a Core Outcome Set to improve the quality of research in surgical handover. The study was approved by the RCSI Research Ethics Committee (202309015, 7th November 2023) and the Principal Investigator is Professor Deborah McNamara.
A short survey for Breast Surgeons in the UK developed by a team at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead, to determine to use of quilting techniques following simple mastectomy without reconstruction.
This survey takes around one minute to complete and your responses will help determine the usefulness of the technique.
If you are a breast care nurse or Cancer Navigator working in the NHS and providing care to breast cancer patients, Dr Blossom Lake and Dr Sarah Damery of the University of Birmingham would be grateful for your participation in this survey.
This project, which is funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), focuses on lifestyle behaviour support offered to people who have had breast cancer. It aims to improve the support received by patients going through a breast cancer diagnosis and treatment, and to better understand the barriers and facilitators to the offer and uptake of lifestyle behaviour change support, which may impact on future management for breast cancer patients.
A survey for clinicians working in surgical wounds! Help the SWHSI-COS project to understand how best to design clinical trials in open surgical wounds (SWHSIs). The team at Hull York Medical School want to know which outcomes are most important to use in clinical trials as we build the evidence base in this area.
Access to reconstructive plastic surgery can be limited by financial, workforce, facilities and training challenges as well as capacity and geographical factors.
Improving equity begins with understanding these limitations. Jo Skillman and Haneen Abed, Plastic Surgeons at the University Hospital of Coventry and Warwickshre, would be grateful if you could share your experience and opinion by answering the 9 questions in their survey. Answers will be kept anonymous.
Complete the survey here
A team of researchers in Nigeria (Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, National Hospital Abuja, University College Hospital Ibadan) and Ghana (Korle Bu Teaching Hospital Accra, Komfe Anokye Teaching Hospital Kumasi) in partnership with the British Foundation for International Reconstructive Surgery and Training (BFIRST) are conducting a questionnaire survey to determine the inter-specialty competencies required for effective collaboration within a breast cancer multidisciplinary team.
They believe that by collectively identifying and addressing the competencies essential for a multidisciplinary approach, they can improve patient outcomes and positively impact the healthcare landscape in our communities.
This survey will take approximately 10 minutes to complete
The UCL Strength Guideline Research Group would like to ask healthcare practitioners to complete their quick survey about their knowledge of strength-based physical activity.
The project has received ethical approval (UCL Ethics Committee - ethics number 5938) and no identifiable information will be collected. No one will gain financially from the data collected or subsequent publications.
A group of surgeons and oncologists based at the Nottingham Breast Institute have been discussing challenges surrounding the placement of surgical clips at time of surgery for patients with breast cancer. The aim of this questionnaire is to collate information about current practice in the UK and internationally relating to surgical clip placement at time of surgery and also on the use of surgical clips for radiotherapy planning.
The “SYMMETRI” Trial (SYnchronous MaMmoplasty Effectiveness TRIal) seeks to evaluate the quality of life and health economic benefits of dual consultant two team immediate bilateral mammoplasty versus delayed symmetrisation mammoplasty. The traditional view was to delay symmetrisation to enable the impact of radiation therapy to be assessed. However, there may be advantages to immediate symmetrisation both for the patient and the wider NHS. The team at Imperial College London are keen to find out views on symmetrisation mammoplasty, especially regarding when symmetrisation is being performed, by whom and whether this in the immediate (timed with therapeutic mammoplasty) or delayed setting.
An optical coherence tomography (OCT)-Raman prototype is currently being developed by a multidisciplinary team with members from the University of Nottingham, the University of Kent and Nottingham University Hospitals.
The device will be designed to assess the presence or absence of residual mammary carcinomas in excised surgical samples and potentially sentinel axillary lymph node biopsies during surgery.
This questionnaire aims to gather key information from users regarding their desired use cases in order to establish the necessary capabilities of OCT-Raman for intra-operative detection of positive margins in breast conserving surgery.
