Periopman,
A membership and events platform for a UK medical society
I built the platform the Manchester Perioperative Medicine Society runs on, with membership and online payments, event registration with member pricing, and talks that only members and delegates can open.
The society
Periopman brings together anaesthetists, surgeons, physicians, residents, advanced nurse practitioners, physiotherapists and critical care teams, all working to make surgery safer and recovery better. It began as a small meeting at Central Manchester Hospital in 2013, launched as a national society in 2016, and now runs events accredited by the Royal College of Anaesthetists that regularly fill up.
What they needed
A society like this runs on a few jobs:
- Sign up members and collect their fees.
- Fill events and take registrations, with a lower price for members.
- Share talks and materials with the people who paid for them, and nobody else.
- Tell its story: who runs it, what it offers residents, and which grants it funds.
The people who use it are busy clinicians, and the people who run it are a small volunteer committee with full-time clinical jobs. So every one of those jobs had to be quick for members and simple for the committee.
What I built
Membership in three tiers
Members join online in one of three tiers: allied health professionals (£10), residents (£25), and consultants and SAS doctors (£25). They pay by card, get a member account, and their membership unlocks the rest of the site.
The page sells the benefits plainly, because they're real ones: members get priority registration for meetings that fill up, lower prices for events, a forum to stay in touch between meetings, and access to travel and project grants.
Events that fill up
Each meeting gets its own page with the poster, the date and the venue, a downloadable event pack, and tabs for the programme, the abstracts, the location and, after the meeting, the event media. Registration shows the member price to members, and the cancellation and refund terms sit right next to it.
When an event is over, the page says so at the top and tells delegates their media is on the way, so nobody has to email the committee to ask.
Talks for members and delegates
After each meeting, the talks and media go online, but only for the people who should see them. Members can open them, and so can anyone who registered for that event, even if they aren't a member. Try it:
Who can open this talk?
Talk from PeriopMan 26
Locked. Join as a member, or register for the next event.
Two reasons to have access, and both change over time: memberships end, and every event adds new delegates. Writing those rules down plainly, before any code, kept them simple.
The society's story and people
The about page tells the society's history and introduces the executive committee, each with a short profile. Residents get their own page with their representatives, and a grants page lists the projects the society supports.
Made for phones first
Clinicians are rarely at a desk, so every page works on a phone as well as on a laptop: joining, registering and opening a talk all fit a small screen.
Trust and privacy
- Card details never touch the site. A payment processor takes the payments, so the society stores no card numbers.
- Bot protection on every form, from sign-up to the contact form.
- Cookie consent with a clear accept or reject choice before anything optional loads.
- Plain terms on each event page: what data registration collects, how refunds work, and how to opt out of emails.
Where it is now
Periopman 26 ran on the platform in October 2026, and the 2027 resident meeting is next. The committee runs its membership, events and member content in one place, and all of it works on a phone.
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