| Care at the end of Life
3 February 2010
London |
Care at the end of life: the role of the primary healthcare team
Organised the the Primary Health Care Section of the Royal Society of Medicine
The conference will review the role of the primary health care team in caring for patients at the end of their life using a hands-on approach with clinical topics in the morning and workshops on other aspects of care in the afternoon. Key speakers will cover strategic issues. The meeting has been awarded 5 CPD points and fees for Fellows are as low as £85.
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| Stroke
5 - 7 February 2010
London |
BASP
Promoting the Advancement of Stroke Medicine in the UK
The National Hospital for Neurology Stroke Weekend
The weekend is aimed at all those either with direct interest in stroke or with on-call commitments that include care of hyperacute stroke patients. The weekend is divided into three main sessions on Hyperacute Stroke, Stroke Secondary Prevention and The Science of Brain Recovery and Stroke Rehabilitation. On the final day there will be a panel discussion of difficult cases brought by the delegates with the obligatory prize for the most complex and challenging. The meeting is run jointly by the UCLp stroke service and BASP
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Enquiries: Robert Simister |
Falls Prevention
11 February 2010
London
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Developing a positive approach to Falls Prevention in Older People
Minimising risk and focusing on active, healthy lifestyles
The conference is a key learning opportunity for those wishing to develop their strategies around falls prevention for older people. With a focus on minimising risk and promoting active, healthier lifestyles you will have the opportunity to hear from healthcare professionals with good practice case studies, tips for developing innovative projects to raise awareness of falls prevention and about developing quality indicators and metrics (highlighted by Ara Darzi as part of High Quality Care for All).
Alongside the main programme the conference features two interactive workshops. The first, a new feature in the conference series, focuses on developing body awareness and maintenance through controlled exercise and invites you to experience the effects of co-ordinated breath and movement in a special participative session. The second, led by members of the Department of Health Falls and Fractures Working Group focuses upon the resources included in Older People's Prevention Package.
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| Neurology
18 February 2010
RCP (London) |
The Neurology of Old Age
Joint conference with the British Geriatrics Society
The conference programme and booking forms for this event will be available online nearer to the date. If you would like to be informed when these are posted on the website, please email with "Email Alert: Neurology of Old Age" in the subject line. |
| Dignity
24 February 2010
London |
Dignity in Care on the Wards
delivering high qualtiy nursing care with dignity and compassion to improve the patient experience
Through a series of presentations, this one day national conference, chaired by Janet Davies Director of Nursing and Service Delivery Royal College of Nursing, focuses on measuring and monitoring dignity in care to improve the patient experience, developing frontline staff to provide care with compassion and initiatives to deliver dignity in care.
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Mental Capacity
26 February 2010
Leeds |
The Mental Capacity Act in the General Hospital: A Practical Guide
The Mental Capacity Act 2005 produced a framework for all those working in health and social care to treat and make decisions for those unable to make decisions for themselves. The impact is wide reaching and influences the actions of those delivering personal care in the community to those performing surgical operations. As many people presenting to hospitals lack capacity to make treatment decisions, it is essential that all clinicians are fully aware of the provisions and limitations of the Act. The purpose of this course is to provide an update on legal issues around mental capacity and deprivation of liberty for clinicians working in the general hospital. The day will give an overview of the Act and explore complex clinical scenarios to which it relates.
For further information visit our website or contact the Andrew Sims Centre by email: ASC@leedspft.nhs.uk or call 0113 305 5638. |
Nurse Consultants
2 March 2010
London
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The role of the Nurse Consultant 10 years on
for nurse consultants, aspiring nurse consultants and senior nurses
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Managing New Realities
2 - 3 March 2010
London |
Managing New Realities 2010
Health, housing and social care for the community
As the election looms, this conference is a unique opportunity to hear from service users, leading service providers, commissioners and policy makers. Topics that will be discussed include:
- How can Whitehall facilitate ways of using finance or contracts to integrate services more effectively?
- A case study from Cumbria County Council on how to pool assets you have to improve services and outcomes.
- Engaging effectively with local communities and improving people’s access to services.
- Looking ahead to the major trends in public policy and what it means for services.
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Special rate for BGS members
BGS members are entitled to a special delegate offer allowing you to buy one delegate place, get one half price, allowing you to get two tickets for just £ 600 +VAT (2 day) or
£ 370+VAT (for 1 day).
To take up this offer, please call 0844 880 5061 quoting MNR/BGS01
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End of Life Care
17 March 2010
London |
Achieving the end-of-life care pathway - what works?
King's Fund Events
- This conference will feature a series of practical workshops, which will focus on the following elements of the end-of-life care pathway.
- Identifying people who are approaching the end-of-life
- Assessment and care planning
- Co-ordination of care
- Delivering high quality services
- Last days of life
- Care after death
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| Osteoporosis
17 - 19 March 2010
Oxford |
Osteoporosis and Other Metabolic Bone Diseases
A course for specialist trainees
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| Movement Disorders
17 - 19 March 2010
Birmingham |
Birmingham Movement Disorders Course
This course is aimed at specialist registrars and new appointed consultants in neurology and geriatrics. The first half deals with hypokinetic movement disorders, in particular, Parkinson's Disease. The second half concerns hyperkinetic movement disorders.
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Visual Problems in Older People
23 March 2010
RSM, London |
Visual Problems in Older People
an RSM Event
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Fractures
24 March 2010
Stanmore
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4th Stanmore Fragility Fractures Course
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore
Further details are available from Tinu Fajobi and on the RNOH website
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Cardiovascular
21 April 2010
London |
British Society for Heart Failure Training Meeting
National Heart and Lung Institute, London
This training day will provide an excellent update around particularly challenging and often controversial management issues in heart failure that will be relevant for all trainees in Geriatric Medicine.
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| Dizziness
27 - 30 April 2010
London |
Dizziness
a multi-disciplinary approach
diagnosis, therapy and management
Following the success of previous Dizziness Courses, the Department of Neuro-otology is continuing its tradition of a four day balance course. The course consists of 3 days of lectures on the assessment, diagnosis and management of balance disorders along with case histories, videos and quizzes. The fourth day is a practical day gaining “hands-on” experience with the department’s testing equipment.
There will be a course dinner on the Wednesday evening.
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| Applied Gerontology
28 - 30 April 2010
Antalya, Turkey |
4th International Social and Applied Gerontology Symposium
An invitation to submit abstracts will be posted soon. Watch this space.
In the meantime, visit our website (in English)
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| Australian/New Zealand Society of Geriatric Medicine
5 - 7 May 2010
Queensland, Australia |
 Australian and New Zealand Society of Geriatric Medicine
2010 Annual Scientific Meeting
Frailty - Palliative Care of Frail Elderly People
To be added to the delegate mailing list or to inquire about sponsorship/exhibition contact:
ANZSGM 2010 ASM Conference Secretariat
P O Box 576
Crows Nest
NSW 1585
Australia
Phone: +61 2 9431 8641
Fax: + 61 2 9901 4586
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Red Flags in Medical Practice
8 June 2010
RCP (London) |
Red Flags in Medical Practice Joint conference with the British Geriatrics Society
The conference programme and booking forms for this event will be available online nearer to the date. If you would like to be informed when these are posted on the website, please email with "Email Alert: Red Flags in Medical Practice" in the subject line. |
International Conference
21 - 23 June 2010
Copenhagen |
Transforming care: Provision, quality and inequalities in late life
International conference, 21-23 June, Eigtveds pakhus, Copenhagen
Call for Papers, Second Announcement
Deadline abstract: 28 February
Newly-defined care policy designs, reorganisation of care policy approaches as well as measures to support informal family care have changed considerably patterns of elder care provision and the situation of carers. The restructurings have emerged against the background of extension and restriction of public support framed by fundamental criticism of the welfare state and persistent economic constraints. They are developing embedded in an increasing process of migration, challenging prevalent elder care policy approaches.
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Thrombosis
6 July 2010
Milan, Italy |
21st International Congress on Thrombosis
A new era in antithrombotics
Closing date for abstracts: 28 February
Information, programmes and updates available by email (sign in)
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| Respite Care
9 - 11 June 2010
Galway, Ireland |
Short Breaks: A Path to Inclusion
Whose Needs? Whose Rights? What Choices?
This important biennial 3-day conference is the only international forum for the sharing of innovation, best practice and policy development in the field of short breaks/ respite care for people with disabilities. This is your opportunity to influence the future!
The underlining theme will draw on the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Work in progress - that is, papers intended as a emans of opening up discussion on new approaches to the understanding of the subject - are welcome.
See website to more details and to submit and abstract (closing date for abstracts is 15 November 2009. |
Ageing and Sleep
25 - 26 June 2010
Lyon, France
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Ageing and Sleep 2010
Sleep problems are among the most common health-related complaints of older persons, however many physicians are not trained to recognize sleep disorders in this population or they assume that sleep disorders are an inevitable part of aging.
This meeting will focus on diagnostic and therapeutic processes that have, or will have, real clinical use in the elderly.
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Calcified Tissues
26 - 30 June 2010
Glasgow, Scotland |
37th European Symposium on Calcified Tissues
Further details from: European Calcified Tissue Society, PO Box 337, Patchway, Bristol BS32 4ZR
Tel/Fax: +44 (0)1454 610255 or visit our website |
| BGS Cardiovascular Section
1-2 July 2010
TBA |
BGS CV Section 2010 Meetings
11th AGM of the BGS CV Section
Download card to register your interest |
Demographics
8 July 2010
London |
New ageing populations: Calamity or Eucatastrophe?
1:30 - 6 p.m.
Brunel University
There has been considerable public interest in the social and health-related effects of population ageing and increasing longevity on the developed and developing world.
The second of a series of six seminars will take place during 2010 and 2011.
For information on all the seminars, see website |
Thrombosis
6 - 9 July 2010
Milan, Italy |
21st International Congress on Thrombosis
A new era in antithrombotics
Closing date for abstracts: 28 February
Information, programmes and updates available by email (sign in)
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| European Geriatrics
29 Sep - 31 Oct 2010
Dublin, Ireland |
6th Congress of the
European Union Geriatric Medicine Society
On behalf of the EUGMS, the Irish Gerontological Society (one of the oldest scientific societies for ageing research in the world), and the Irish Society of Physicians in Geriatric Medicine, I would like to welcome you to the 6 th Congress of the EUGMS in Dublin in 2010.
Dublin is an attractive and historic venue, with a historic centre close to the conference centre, excellent transport links, direct air connections to every country in the EU, and a magnificent setting beside the sea and mountains.
The 2010 conference theme of New Technologies and Geriatric Medicine harnesses the existing strengths of geriatric medicine to rapid developments in many fields of technological development, from new medicines, new pharmaceutical delivery methods, information and communication technology, nanotechnology and biomechanics, with an emphasis on clinical practice, including ethics.
There will also be a Core Curriculum track, revisiting the fundamentals of geriatric medicine by leading experts in the field. An active social programme, plentiful submitted presentations, interactive poster presentations, and convivial surroundings will support learning, networking, interchanges, and deepen our sense of collegiality.
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