Articles
Risking life and limb: no hiding from failure
Introduction Acute limb ischaemia (ALI) is one of the few vascular emergencies where time is quite literally tissue. Delays to treatment risk permanent limb impairment or amputation and death. With that in mind, the National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD) report Risking Life and Limb (2025)1 makes uncomfortable reading. Despite firm principles…
Calculating and reducing the environmental impact of hybrid endovascular surgery
Introduction Background Climate change refers to long-term shifts in global temperatures and weather patterns, driven predominantly over the past two centuries by human activity, particularly the combustion of fossil fuels. The release of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) traps heat within the atmosphere, raising global temperatures,1 which is known as…
Editor’s foreword
Welcome to the February 2026 edition of the JVSGBI. We have two editorials in this issue, the first editorial is the third of a series by Long and co-authors outlining approaches to ensure mentorship is efficient, effective and meaningful with specific reference to the recently launched VSGBI mentorship programme for newly appointed vascular surgical consultants.…
Making mentorship meaningful: a closer look at the mentoring journey
Introduction Previous editorials set out the rationale for introducing mentorship within UK vascular surgery and provided a high-level overview of what to expect from the VSGBI mentorship programme.1,2 As the first cohort begins its mentoring journey, this issue turns its attention to the mentoring relationship itself: how it develops, what sustains it and how it…
