Courses
Coroner’s Inquest Training Day
**Please note this course is for ESNEFT Staff Only**
Date: Wednesday 23 April 2025
Venue: Layer Suite, Colchester Jobserve Community Football Stadium
Suitable for: ESNEFT Staff
Course includes:
- Reporting deaths to the Coroner
- Family support
- How to write a good witness statement
- How to be a good witness
- How an inquest can be reported in the press
- A mock inquest
- Past witness experience
- Post-inquest support
If you require further information please email the course coordinator: Sarah.Wilby@esneft.nhs.uk
Kirsten Almond
Course Lead
ICENI CENTREIntroduction to Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Course
Course Date: Friday 17th January 2025
**This Course is Fully Booked**
Fee: £295 (reduced rate for ESNEFT staff & Dukes Club members)
Course duration: 1 Day
Level: FY2 – ST4
Programme includes:
- History of endoscopy
- Layout of endoscopy unit
- Equipment & functionality
- Patient preparation
- Analgesia & sedation
- Common pathology
- JAG & training pathways
Plus hands-on VR and box trainer endoscopy simulator sessions
Consultant Greg Wynn
Course Lead
ICENI CENTRELaparoscopic Inguinal Hernia Repair
**This Course is Fully Booked**
Dates: Friday 31 January 2025
Suitable for: Senior registrars and junior consultants
Course fee: £450 (Reduced Fee for ENEFT staff)
This 1-day intensive course is aimed at senior registrars and junior consultants who want to explore the different methods of Groin Hernia Repair.
The day incorporates and encourages discussion, review of surgical experience with peers, interaction with expert surgeons on technique followed by suturing tuition and practical experience with dissection and mesh placement in our state-of-the-art laparoscopic skills lab. Features include:
- Hands-on practice with dissection & mesh placements using simulated models
- Suturing tuition
- Personal feedback on performance, with advice for further practice
This course has been accredited by the Royal College of Surgeons of England for 5.5 CPD Points
This course was quality assured by the Royal College of Surgeons, www.rcseng.ac.uk/courses
Greg Wynn
Course Leader
ICENI CENTRELaparoscopic Cholecystectomy, IOC & CBD Exploration Course
Dates: Next Dates TBC
Course Fee:
Non ESNEFT: £395
ESNEFT and East of England Trainees: £200
Suitable for: Senior Registrar & higher level trainees
Course Director: Ms Nienke Warnaar, Consultant Surgeon
Course Includes:
This one day intensive course is aimed at more senior specialist registrars and consultants who want to learn about exploration of the common bile duct. The course includes Normal Cholecystectomy, Difficulties and Troubleshooting, Common Bile Duct Stones and Laparoscopic Choledochoscopy.
Delegate comments from our most recent course:
- Very good faculty. Excellent technology great quality images and explanation. Overall very helpful.
- Very well organised. Courteous, helpful staff, excellent presentation. Must for every one dealing with Gall bladder surgery.
This course has been accredited by the Royal College of Surgeons of England for 6 CPD Points
This course was quality assured by the Royal College of Surgeons, www.rcseng.ac.uk/courses
Nienke Warnaar
Course Leader
ICENI CENTRE