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Chair: Tina Bishop – Independent Advisor & Trainer, Primary Health Care, & committee member of the RCN Practice Nurse Association
AM Sessions
9.15 A practice nurse's guide to travel medicine
Overview - travel vaccines & malaria advice. Travellers with special health needs. Sources of advice.
Claire Wong RGN, MSc – Specialist nurse (travel health), British Travel Health Association
10.00 Diet sheets are not the answer
Obesity - an epidemic of mass proportion. Halting the growing crisis by focussing on public health strategy. Role of health care professionals in changing public perception.
Jane Grant - Independent Nurse Practitioner
10.40 Exhibition and Morning Coffee
11.15 Nurses & contraception provision
Update - all methods of contraception. A nurse’s role in providing contraception in a variety of settings, eg. schools, clinics, General Practice. Consider training needs & opportunities for nurses.
Edna Astbury-Ward M.Sc, RGN, Dip H.Ed. Cert Sexual & Relationship Therapy – Specialist Nurse Contraception and Sexual Health, Western Cheshire
PCT, Countess Of Chester Hospital
12.00 Practical sexual health for practice nurses: Making a difference
Sexual health in perspective. Challenges of delivering sexual health care. Case studies from across the life span. Moving the practice nurse contribution forwards.
Sarah Challinor BSc (Hons) DipHE RN – Contraception and Sexual Health Nurse Eastern & Coastal Kent PCT
12.45 Exhibition and Lunch
PM Sessions
1.45 Nurse-led "Triage" - Slay your demons!
Do I need training? Is just a phone call enough? Keeping crap out of the fan. How do I cope?
Dr Mark Bancroft-Livingston MA MRCP(UK) MRCGP – Partner, Partners in Health Pavilion & St James Family Doctors
2.25 An update on the management of type 2 diabetes for practice nurses
New NICE guidance - exploring strengths & challenges. Optimising the care of patients with diabetes to reduce cardiovascular risk.
Beverley Cox - Clinical Lead: CHD, Heart Failure, Diabetes & Weight Management, Education for Health
3.15 Exhibition and Afternoon Tea
3.45 Becoming a nurse partner in general practice
Becoming a partner – what you need to know. Models available. Real life experiences. The future of partnerships.
Linda Aldous – Nurse Partner, XX Place & Bromley-by-Bow Healthy Living Centre
4.30 New developments in smoking cessation
Gay Sutherland – Consultant Psychologist, Maudsley
Hospital, Smoking Cessation Clinic, London
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