British Association of Sclerotherapists (BAS) annual meeting, Basingstoke

The Ark Conference Centre, Basingstoke, was the setting for the 2016 BAS annual meeting. The one-day event included a clinical and business educational programme as well as live demonstrations. Topics covered ranged from treatment of varicose veins with sclerotherapy and compression after sclerotherapy, to complications of foam and liquid sclerotherapy and how to avoid them, and Pearls and Pitfalls – Top Tips. There were also live demonstrations of foam and microsclerotherapy. Speakers included Dr Patrizia Pavei, Dr Martyn King, Philip Coleridge Smith, Julie Halford, Claire Judge, Dr Steve Tristram and Dr Savita Rangarajan Business talks covered “Effective Marketing for Your Business” with Pam Underdown from Aesthetic Business Transformations; “Going for Google,” with Mark Bugg, Web Marketing Clinic and “How to Maximise Business Efficiency, and Improve Your Patient Journey” with Richard Crawford Small, iConsult. The event was sponsored by STD Pharmaceutical, Q Medical Technologies and Credenhill Compression Hosiery Specialists.