2024 POPs (Perioperative Care of Older People Undergoing Surgery) Meeting

Date(s)
27 September 2024
Credits
This meeting has applied for 6 credits of live CPD credit (expires 27 October 2024) and 6 credits Distance learning CPD accreditation (expires 27 September 2025) from the Royal College of Physicians (RCP)
This event is intended for clinicians and healthcare professionals working with older people undergoing elective or emergency surgery.

Flexible attendance options & registration fees for 2024: In person or online

There is no difference in registration fees for in person and online meeting attendance. The registration fee provides access to the conference or online platform for the days you are registered. On demand viewing post event will be limited to the days for which you have registered and paid.

There is a flexible transfer from in person to online attendance as clinical service and life balance require. Please check our FAQs first for any queries you may have about attendance or on demand watching.

Programme themes:

The day will include presentations from experts in the field, and interactive plenary sessions demonstrating best practice approaches available. We hope you will be able to attend in person to benefit from the meeting, make contacts, and start collaborations which will continue on from this meeting.

Call for abstracts:

Please submit your abstracts for the 2024 POPs Meeting before the closing date: 5pm Monday, 3 June 2024

Submit your abstract

Who should attend:

  • All consultants, nurses and allied health care professionals with an interest in healthcare of older people
  • Especially those working in
    • geriatric medicine
    • surgery
    • rehabilitation
  • GPs with an extended role in older people and GP trainees
  • Advanced and specialist practitioners
  • Consultant practitioners/consultant nurses
  • Pharmacists
  • Physician associates
  • Internal medicine trainees especially those considering an oncology, geriatric medicine, palliative care specialty
  • Medical, nursing, allied health professional students
  • Researchers into ageing and age-related conditions

Why participate:

  • Understand more on the key areas & challenges faced in geriatric medicine  
  • Hear focused presentations on core areas of the geriatric medicine
  • Present the latest scientific research to British Geriatrics Society members and elected officers
  • Attend small group workshop sessions
  • Network & socialise with other healthcare professionals over the day

Grants to attend: In person or online

Members in Category B, C and D are now eligible to apply for a new BGS event grant. This will cover the registration cost for a BGS conference, either virtually or in person. Applications can be submitted from the event registration page, and should be requested and approved before completing registration.

Find out more

 

Event Details:

Cost to attend
All fees inclusive of VAT.
There is no cost difference between in person or online
BGS Member Non-Member
Fee Fee
Senior Doctors – Post CCT or CESR CP Professions £120 £200
Pre CCT or CESR CP Professions, Healthcare professionals (Nurses, Physiotherapists, Researchers) £60 £100
Retired member/ Students (Undergraduates in Medical School, Nursing or AHP courses) £30 £50
Corporate Representatives   £200
Card payments only. We don't accept PO or invoice payments.

*An early bird discount of 10% is available until 27 July 2024.

Your organization can register attendees and pay the registration fee by card only they hold on your behalf (A Proxy registration). There isn’t an option for invoice payment for our virtual and hybrid  conferences. The steps for a proxy registration are outlined on https://www.bgs.org.uk/hybrid-event-participants.

CPD and Post Event Access

We understand that you may not be able to tune-in to a live-streamed event or webinar as a result of clinical pressures. Therefore, if you view an archived version of a Federation-approved live-streamed event or live webinar within four weeks of it being broadcast you can still claim it as an approved external CPD course. BGS won't send certificates if you watch post event.

The live CPD codes will be found in the RCP diary.

After 4 weeks post-broadcast date
This will be classed by the RCP as distance learning and will be assigned a distance learning code and can be added to the diary as usual distance learning activities would be. 

  • As long as you are registered you can access the event live, or for up to 12 months post-broadcast via the platform 
  • The videos are instantly available
  • You can rewatch content for 12 months if you can’t join them all live.  
  • The RCP will allow you to claim CPD for up to 12 months after the delivery of a meeting where the archives are accessible.
  • If you watch you will need to record this in your CPD diary using the event code and hours but we won’t send a certificate for people who only watch post event. 
  • Further information about CPD can be found here https://www.federationcpd.org/covid-19.

Distance Learning

For the 2022/23 CPD year there will be no limit to the number of external credits that can be claimed for distance learning. In addition to the maximum of 10 approved distance learning credits you may add under the ‘Add Approved Entry’ tab, you may also add unlisted distance learning under the ‘Add Self-Certified Entry’ tab under the ‘Distance Learning’ sub-section. You will need to add them as an ‘External Self-Certified Distance Learning, Clinical or Non-Clinical’. Reading articles in online journals and e-libraries that are not approved should still be recorded as personal self-certified distance learning. Online mandatory training required by your employer should still be recorded as internal CPD.

Venue
Innside Melia Hotel Liverpool Exterior Innside Melia Hotel Liverpool Interior

The Innside Liverpool Hotel Contemporary urban design in the city of the Beatles! British style, contemporary architecture and Spanish hospitality combine to perfection in this city hotel in the heart of downtown Liverpool. Lively Castle Street and Liverpool Town Hall are just a stone’s throw from the hotel. The refined design, services and facilities in this extraordinary hotel reflect all the energy and vitality of this dynamic city.

Accommodation

BGS have identified some good value rates at hotels in close proximity to the conference venue.

Click here to see available options and rates

Other sites and booking directly with the hotels may be cheaper - please do shop around.

BGS members can find preferential rates at Hotels by Hilton by following the details below.

  1. Go to www.hilton.com
  2. Enter Where to? destination and When? Check-in and Check-out dates
  3. Click on Special Rates
  4. Within the pop-up, under Corporate Account, enter 113011292. Click Done
  5. Click on Find a Hotel, select a hotel from the search results