Agenda 2020

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08:30 - 08:40

Registration and exhibition
08:40 - 08:45

Conference Welcome Speech

Speaker(s):
08:55 - 09:30

The Big Discussion: What is the future of general practice?

Speaker(s):
09:40 - 10:25

Gastroenterology: 2020 Update

Speaker(s):
  • Dr Kevin Barrett
    GP partner in Hertfordshire, RCGP & Crohns and Colitis UK Inflammatory Bowel Disease Clinical Champion 2017-2020
10:40 - 11:25

Inhalers: The Essential Knowledge for Clinical Practice

Speaker(s):
11:30 - 12:00

Virtual Exhibition Break

12:00 - 12:45

Paediatric Cow’s Milk Allergy: Common Challenges in Primary Care

Speaker(s):
  • Dr Diab Haddad
    consultant paediatrician with special interest in allergic & respiratory disorders
13:00 - 13:45

Top tips to speed up your practice

Speaker(s):
14:00 - 14:30

Keynote Session: Undoable workload?

Speaker(s):
14:30 - 15:15

Food allergy and anaphylaxis: diagnosis, tests and their interpretation

Speaker(s):
15:30 - 16:00

GP Money Masterclass: everything you need to know as a GP

Speaker(s):
16:15 - 16:50

Rheumatology update: diagnosing inflammatory arthritis

Speaker(s):
  • Dr Louise Warburton
    clinical lead for Telford MSK Service, associate medical director, Shropshire Community NHS Trust
16:50 -

Close of Conference
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On-demand: How to avoid the intelligence trap in diagnosis

Speaker(s):
  • David Robson
    Science writer, journalist and author of The Intelligence Trap
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On-demand: KardiaMobile: Technology beyond AF detection

Speaker(s):
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On-demand: Surviving the 10 minute headache consultation

Speaker(s):
  • Dr David Kernick
    GPSI headache and former chair, The British Association for the Study of Headache and Exeter Headache Clinic
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On-demand: Becoming a GP Partner: What you need to consider

Speaker(s):
  • Simon Appleyard
    Senior Area Manager, Wesleyan Financial Services
08:40 - 09:00

Registration and exhibition

09:00 - 09:45

Opening Keynote: Providing ‘right access’ – an end to simplistic access schemes

Speaker(s):
  • Dr Robert Varnam
    GP, director of primary care improvement, NHS England and NHS Improvement
10:00 - 10:45

GP money masterclass: Your NHS pension: What are my options?

Speaker(s):
11:00 - 11:30

Virtual exhibition break

11:30 - 12:15

Remote consulting during the COVID-19 outbreak

Speaker(s):
12:30 - 13:00

QOF - Maximising income in 2020/21

Speaker(s):
13:15 - 13:45

Portfolio careers post-covid

Speaker(s):
14:00 - 14:30

Closing keynote: Brexit and covid-19: Implications for the NHS

Speaker(s):
08:40 - 09:00

Registration and exhibition

09:00 - 09:30

Opening keynote: Well-being (comedy session)

Speaker(s):
09:45 - 10:15

COVID-19 and mental health

Speaker(s):
  • Dr Sam Tromans
    honorary academic clinical lecturer in social and epidemiological psychiatry
10:30 - 11:15

Psychodermatology: treating the skin and mind

Speaker(s):
  • Dr Alia Ahmed
    consultant dermatologist and honorary lecturer in psychodermatology, University of Hertfordshire
11:15 - 11:40

Virtual exhibition break

11:45 - 12:15

Depression: current best practice

Speaker(s):
12:30 - 13:15

Improving mental health by identifying and treating people with gambling problems

Speaker(s):
  • Dr Matthew Gaskell
    consultant psychologist and clinical director for addictions, Leeds & York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
  • Anna Hemmings
    Chief Executive Officer, GamCare
12:15 - 14:00

Lunch break & exhibition

14:15 - 15:15

Put your oxygen mask on first; Sustaining our wellbeing through Mindfulness practice

Speaker(s):
15:30 - 16:15

Suicide prevention in young people: relationship with self harm?

Speaker(s):
16:15 -

Close of conference
13:00 - 13:05

Registration and exhibition

13:05 - 13:35

Gynaecology Update

Speaker(s):
13:45 - 14:30

Menopause Updates: HRT

Speaker(s):
14:40 - 15:05

Contraception Update

Speaker(s):
  • Dr Toni Hazell
    GP, medical writer, editor and regular contributor to Pulse Learning
15:15 - 16:00

Managing overactive bladder in primary care

Speaker(s):
  • Dr Jon Rees
    GP with specialist interest in Urology, Tyntesfield Medical Group, North Somerset
16:00 -

Close of conference
08:30 - 08:50

Registration and exhibition

08:50 - 09:20

The travelling patient

Speaker(s):
  • Dr Nicky Longley
    Consultant Physician and Clinical Lead in Travel Medicine, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, University College London Hospitals
09:30 - 10:15

Title tbc (respiratory)
10:30 - 11:15

Title tbc
11:20 - 11:50

Hypertension

Speaker(s):
11:55 - 12:25

COVID, cancer and QOF QI: Supporting General Practice to improve cancer outcomes

Speaker(s):
  • Dr Anant Sachdev
    GP partner, Cancer Research UK GP, Thames Valley Cancer Alliance Clinical Lead for Prevention and Early Diagnosis, End of Life Care Specialist GP
12:30 - 13:00

End of life Care in Covid: the need to build a compassionate community
13:00 -

Close of conference
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On-demand Session: Title tbc (prostate cancer)
09:20 -

Registration and exhibition

09:30 - 10:30

Skin cancer and pre-cancerous lesions: the ultimate guide to lesion recognition

Speaker(s):
  • Dr Finbar McGrady
    GPwSI dermatology, sessional GP and clinical teaching fellow, Queens University, Belfast
10:50 - 11:35

Title tbc (acne management)
11:50 - 12:35

Dermatology Quiz: complex cases

Speaker(s):
12:50 - 13:35

Managing rosacea in the era of antimicrobial stewardship

Speaker(s):
13:50 - 14:40

Assessing hair and scalp conditions remotely

Speaker(s):
  • Dr Manjit Kaur
    consultant dermatologist, lecturer and founding member of the British Hair and Nail Society
14:50 - 15:35

Tbc

08:50 - 09:00

Registration and exhibition

09:00 - 09:30

Digital Innovation and remote consultations at scale

Speaker(s):
  • Dr Farzana Hussain
    GP, Clinical Director Newham Central 1 PCN & LMC committee member
09:45 - 10:30

The DES contract

Speaker(s):
  • Dr Geetha Chandrasekaran
    GP partner, GPSI Urology, founding Director of Pennine GP Alliance and Clinical Director, North Halifax Primary Care Network
10:45 - 11:30

Title tbc
11:45 - 12:15

The Big Interview with Dr Nikita Kanani

Speaker(s):
12:30 - 13:30

Collaboration: Lessons learned from the front-line

Speaker(s):
  • Dr Sohail Munshi
    GP partner and chief medical officer, Manchester Local Care Organisation
13:30 -

Close of conference
08:50 -

Registration and exhibition

08:50 - 09:20

Diabetes management in the post covid era: the right treatment, for the right patient, at the right time

Speaker(s):
09:35 - 10:20

Title to be confirmed (hayfever)

10:35 - 11:20

Pulse Learning LIVE: DMARD monitoring & Rational use of antibiotics

Speaker(s):
  • Dr Toni Hazell
    GP, medical writer, editor and regular contributor to Pulse Learning
11:35 - 12:20

Can we optimise outcomes in COPD with nutrition?

Speaker(s):
  • Anne Holdoway
    consultant dietitian and chair, Managing Adult Malnutrition in the Community and Managing Malnutrition in COPD expert panels
  • Prof Tom Wilkinson
    professor of respiratory medicine and honorary NHS consultant physician, Southampton University Faculty of Medicine, member of the Managing Malnutrition in COPD panel
12:35 - 13:45

Infectious diseases workshop

Speaker(s):
  • Dr Sarah Logan
    consultant physician,  hospital for tropical diseases, University College Hospital London
  • Dr Catherine Houlihan
    consultant physician and clinical lecturer, hospital for tropical diseases, University College Hospital London
14:00 -

Close of conference
08:40 - 09:00

Registration and exhibition

09:00 - 09:45

Vaccine hesitancy and how to address it

Speaker(s):
  • Dr Toni Hazell
    GP, medical writer, editor and regular contributor to Pulse Learning
10:00 - 10:45

Title to be confirmed (Cow’s milk allergies)

11:00 - 11:55

Paediatric Quiz

Speaker(s):
12:10 - 12:40

The importance of managing drooling in Neurodisability – A perspective from Birmingham Children’s Hospital

Speaker(s):
12:55 - 13:40

Title tbc

13:55 - 14:30

The febrile Child: NICE guidelines update

Speaker(s):
14:30 -

Close of Conference
08:40 - 09:00

Registration and exhibition
09:00 - 09:30

Opening keynote: title tbc

Speaker(s):
09:45 - 10:30

ENT workshop

Speaker(s):
10:45 - 11:30

Title tbc
11:45 - 12:30

Pulse LIVE Learning: Epilepsy, breastfeeding and Parkinson's disease

Speaker(s):
  • Dr Toni Hazell
    GP, medical writer, editor and regular contributor to Pulse Learning
12:45 - 13:30

Post-viral fatigue syndrome in covid patients

Speaker(s):
13:45 - 14:15

Abnormal liver function tests

Speaker(s):
14:30 - 15:15

Gambling treatment for specific groups

Speaker(s):
15:30 - 16:00

Closing Keynote: tbc

Speaker(s):
  • Dr Nav Chana
    senior GP partner and clinical director, National Association of Primary Care
16:00 -

Close of conference
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On-demand: Community acquired pneumonia

Speaker(s):
  • Dr Shanthi Paramothayan
    consultant physician in respiratory and general medicine, and author of "Essential Respiratory Medicine"


*Please note, this information is correct at the current time. Cogora reserve the right to amend content without prior warning.

**We would like to thank our exhibitors, sponsors and partners for supporting this meeting. This includes a number of pharmaceutical companies; including Abbott Diabetes Care, Aspire Pharma Ltd, Astellas Pharma Europe Ltd, Beiersdorf UK Ltd, Chiesi Ltd,  Galderma UK Ltd, Janssen-Cilag Ltd, La-Roche Posay, Mylan UK, Norvastis, Nutricia Ltd,  Proveca Ltd and Sanofi. These companies have only had input into their individual sessions on the programme where clearly labelled.