Healthcare Conferences UK: Elderly Events
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CONFERENCES
Hip Fracture: Meeting the National Quality Standard and Learning from NHFD
Thursday 1 May 2014, London
This conference focuses on meeting the NICE Quality Standard for Hip Fracture and learning from the findings of the 2013 National Hip Fracture Database Report and the 2014 Sprint Audits. Case study sessions will focus on improving patient care and outcomes for hip fracture. It is estimated that there are 70,000 hip fractures a year in the UK and this is only set to increase as the population gets older.
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Delivering an effective, Integrated
Falls &Syncope Service
Ensuring accurate diagnosis & effective management
Monday 2 June 2014, London
Chaired by Trudie Caroline Anne Lobban MBEFounder and CEO STARS, this conference has a particular focus on the integration of fallsand syncope services with a presentation by Professor Christopher Mathias Professor of Neurovascular Medicine University of London who will discuss the importance of fast and accurate diagnosis and management ensuring that patientsget effective treatment and are not left with undetected or misdiagnosed conditions.
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Improving Compassion in Care on the Wards
Monday 23 June 2014, London
This conference provides a practical guide to improving compassion in care on the wards. The conference opens with a national update on compassion in practice and the 6C’s and continues with case studies sessions focusing on understanding what compassion means to your team, developing and implementing a compassionate care framework, embedding compassion as a key competence in nursing appraisal and revalidation, measuring compassion, developing compassion in leadership, learning from patient experience, challenging poor practice and developing courage, and tackling the little things that make a difference.
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* Masterclass: Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
Tuesday 1 July 2014, London
This masterclass will explore the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards and examine the practical implications for health care professionals. There will be a detailed analysis of what constitutes Deprivation of Liberty rather than restriction of liberty.
Delegates will have the opportunity to raise issues and concerns specific to their own practice. The course will be run by Kate Hill, a Mental Healthcare lawyer, and will be case study led.
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Falls Prevention and Management in Older People
Wednesday 2 July 2014, Manchester
The conference opens with an update from the National Falls and Fractures Alliance on meeting the health improvement objective relating to falls in the NHS Outcomes Framework 2013-16. The conference continues with an in-depth focus on meeting the updated 2013 NICE Clinical Practice Guideline on Falls within falls and inpatient services including a focus on risk prediction and effective interventions to reduce the risk and severity of falls in hospitals. 26% of all patient safety incident reports from Oct 2011 to March 2012 were slips, trips and falls. The conference will also take a proactive approach to engaging older people in staying healthy falls prevention exercise. The afternoon will continue with case studies focusing on secondary prevention, managing falls, frailty and comorbidity, falls and mental health and managing falls and fractures in care homes. Through expert speakers and best practice case studies the conference aims to give you practical tools and ideas to improve falls prevention and management in your local practice and organisation.
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Delirium
Implementing the New NICE Quality Standard
Friday 18 July 2014, London
The new draft Quality Standard for Delirium was published by NICE on the 25th February 2014. The final quality standard is due to be published in July 2014. This timely conference will focus on the new Quality Standard and how to implement the standard in practice in your service. The conference aims, through policy updates, case studies and extended sessions to share best evidence and good practice in the assessment and management delirium.
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*Please note we do not offer contra agreements for our masterclasses