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18th-19th December 2025

- Our team attended the French Hand Society (SFCM) Meeting in Paris, a great opportunity for keeping up to date, international networking and Jonathan Hobby gave a complex case presentation (in French!). We also took the opportunity to hold our annual team Christmas celebration whilst over in Paris!

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4th-6th December 2025

- The whole team attended a three day workshop in Germany, hosted by the Bone and Implant Research Group (BIRG). There were a series of informative lectures follwoed by cadaveric sessions to use some of the lates fracture fixation and joint replacement products. Duncan Avis and Jonathan Hobby gave talks on topics including Finger Joint Replacement, 3D patient specific planning, Wrist fractures and hand fractures.

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14th October 2025

- Alex Nicholls chaired an evening event in Reading for the International Bone Research Association (IBRA), Duncan Avis and Jonathan Hobby gave excellent lectures. The evening was well attended by surgeons from around the country, there was ecellent case discussion afterwards and the event received very positive feedback.

                             

July & August 2024

- Alex Nicholls took some extended leave and travelled to Malawi, East Africa wth his family for 2 months as part of the British Society for Surgery for the Hand (BSSH) LION Hand Unit Project. The objective of this 5 year project is to train a local team and establish a self-sufficient hand unit in one of the most under-resourced countries in Africa. If you feel you could donate to support this vital ongoing project, please click here.

                              

                                                         

29th February 2024

- Duncan Avis and Alex Nicholls were asked by LEDA Orthopaedics to return to Brighton for another cadaveric instructional course at Brighton Medical School, teaching over 20 UK surgeons how to perform thumb base replacement surgery.

                             

6th November 2023

- Alex Nicholls was invited to present at an evening event in London for the International Bone Research Association (IBRA) on complex wrist fractures. 

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6th October 2023

 - Alex Nicholls and Kevin Spear were guest speakers at the British Association of Hand Therapists (BAHT) annual conference in Bournemouth. They gave a symposium on thumb base joint replacement surgery for arthritis.

                                              

 

20th June 2023

- Duncan Avis and Alex Nicholls were asked by LEDA Orthopaedics to teach on an instructional course at Brighton Medical School for senior surgeons to learn how to perform thumb base replacement surgery.

                                     

 

13th October 2022

 - Jonathan Hobby , in his capacity as President of the British Society for Surgery for the Hand (BSSH), welcomed hand surgeons from around the UK, and abroad, to the Autumn Scientific meeting in Winchester.

                                  

 

- All three of our team hosted a lunchtime symposium during the meeting discussing their experience of thumb base replacement surgery.

                                  

 

10th June 2022

 - Our surgeons had a busy week in London at the International Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand (IFSSH) triennial congress. All the team were involved chairing sessions, giving talks and hosting visiting surgeons.