8 Free Clinical Seminars

Chair: Ian Banks - President of the Mens Health Forum

9.30am

Keynote address – Exhibition village: Taking control of multiple conditions to live life

My journey. The challenge of having a label. The consequences to my life, family and carers. How self management saved my life. Living life: how I changed my mind set. How health and social care can really make a difference in adding years to life and life to years.

Phil Cummings – Nottingham

10.00am

How a Devon practice cut COPD-related hospital admissions by 54 per cent working with the Met Office to predict weather conditions that exacerbate respiratory disease symptoms

Using Telemedicine as a channel direct to patients. Evaluation of the study. How this could continue to improve. How to incorporate into your service.

Mark Smith – Met Office Consulting

10.30am

Best Practice: Overcoming clinical challenges of long term neurological conditions in the community. Assessing cognitive function

Useful tools. Pragmatic first path assessment. What to do next. Measuring the scale of dementia or depression. Overcoming the challenge of the patients inability to self care and comply with medication.

Dr Louise Robinson – Clinical Senior Lecturer in Primary Care, Institutes of Ageing and Health/Health and Society, Newcastle University

11.00am

Clinical Solutions Fringe Session

Dr Ian Banks - President of the Men's Health Forum

11.00am

Coffee and Exhibition

11.30am

Dementia: The challenge for health and social care professionals to improve care for people with dementia

Improving awareness. Early diagnosis and intervention: guidance for professionals. Improving care and treatment for people with dementia. Joint health and social care mental health teams in the community. Supporting people with dementia, their families and carers.

Professor James Lindesay – Professor of Psychiatry for the Elderly, University of Leicester

12.00pm

Implementing health checks for people with learning disabilities

Implementing health checks in general practice. What’s the evidence? How to do it. What’s covered? Real life examples.

Janet Cobb – Associate Consultant, The Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities

Debra Moore – Joint National Programme Lead – Learning Disabilities, CSIP

12.30pm

Keynote address – Exhibition village

Ann Keen – Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Health Services, Department of Health

12.50pm

Lunch and Exhibition

1.40pm

Partners in care: How to make care planning a reality in your service

Working in partnership together: What is care planning? Lessons so far: What has been learnt from pilots in diabetes care? Practical examples of how to implement care planning in your practice/service. How can this be commissioned with Year of Care? How can this be transferred to better care for all people with long term conditions?

Dr Simon Eaton – Consultant Diabetologist, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust & Lead Clinician for Care Planning in Diabetes

2.10pm

Heart failure – the revolving door patients: Practical strategies to avoid emergency admissions

Identifying when patients are at risk of admission. Future planning to prevent inappropriate admissions. Involving other agencies in the care pathway i.e. Telemedicine, Palliative care & Social care. When hospital admission is the correct course of action.

Annie MacCallum – Head of CVD and Heart Failure, Gloucestershire Primary Care Trust

2.40pm

Tea and Exhibition

3.10pm

Palliative care: Overcoming challenges in the community

Communication issues. New legislation. End of life pathways. Reaching beyond cancer. Working with community matrons.

Dr Luke Feathers – Consultant in Palliative Medicine LOROS and University Hospitals of Leicester

Caroline Hall – Community Matron, Leicester City PCT

3.40pm

3 case studies of patients with complex multiple health and social care needs

Mark Pierce – Community Matron Manager, Leicester City PCT

Dr Liz Siddons – Downing Drive Surgery, Leicester

Sharon Charles-Cockerill – Social Worker, Leicester City Council

Zoe Harris – Community Matron, Leicester City PCT