Join us for our upcoming SafetyNet webinar – Reducing harm from surgery amongst deprived communities: HIPPOCRATES Research Programme, with Prof Ramani Moonesinghe, director of the NIHR Central London PSRC.

Date: 24 June 2026
Time: 12:30 – 1:30pm
Where: Online (Zoom)

Health inequalities related to socioeconomic position lead to reduced life expectancy and healthy life expectancy. They are also associated with adverse outcomes after major surgery, including complications such as infection, and an increased risk of readmission and death.

While the structural determinants of health inequalities may be fixed, we can identify potential targets for improving perioperative care and therefore outcome, including addressing long-term health conditions, health behaviours, financial situation and how we monitor patients around the time of surgery.

The NIHR-funded HIPPOCRATES research programme is using co-design with patients and public from positions of socioeconomic hardship to develop three interventions to be tested in a multi-centre clinical trial. We have undertaken multiple focus groups with experts and co-design workshops up and down the country, working with the charity Community Organisers to reach our target population.

In this session, Prof Ramani Moonesinghe will report on progress with the co-design phase, emerging findings and plans for the trial.

Meet the speaker

Professor Ramani Moonesinghe

NHS England National Clinical Director for Critical and Perioperative Care

Professor of Perioperative medicine and hon Consultant, UCL / UCL Hospitals

Director, NIHR Central London Patient Safety Research Collaboration

Ramani is a clinician scientist and health service leader, with a clinical background of anaesthesia, perioperative and critical care medicine. Her research focuses on improving outcomes from surgery through delivering better quality care, addressing health inequalities and improving patient safety. She was awarded the honour of Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2021 for services to healthcare. She is married to an infinitely patient inventor and lives with him and their 3 adopted children in the Sussex countryside surrounded by sheep.

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