RCGP Annual Conference – Friday Highlights
20/10/11
Day two of the RCGP Annual Conference also
offers the following highlights.
At 3.00pm, RCGP Chair Dr Clare Gerada will be taking open
questions from the floor at her ‘tea time question session’ at the
RCGP Annual Conference, ACC Liverpool from 20 to 22 October.
Removing the blindfold and handcuffs: HIV and general practice
RCGP Patient Partnership Group Chair Antony Chuter chairs a
session discussing:
- Benefits of early diagnosis – with Dr Philippa
Matthews, a GP in King’s Cross
- HIV screening for newly registered patients:
results of a screening pilot – with Ruth Hutt, Consultant in Public
Health, Lewisham
- Interventions to increase opportunistic and diagnostic
testing – with Judith Mullineux, SHIP Coordinator,
Birmingham
- SHIP GP HIV testing rates in Haringey – Timesh
Pillay,medical student, UCL, collator of SHIP HIV testing data
- Living with HIV – by a service user
Urgent care and out-of-hours: getting it right
RCGP Acute Care Lead Dr Agnelo Fernandes chairs a session
looking at:
- Using the urgent care audit tool kit to improve quality
and productivity – Dr Simon Abrams, Medical Director,
Urgent Health UK
- Organising safer out of hours services – led
by Dr Ed Garratt, Deputy Director of Commissioning Development,
East of England SHA
- What is NHS 111 doing? – with Dr Nick Morton,
GP and Associate Director Clinical Services, East of England
Ambulance Service, and Dr Peter Fox, Medical Director, NHS
Pathways
Respiratory update
Dr Steve Holmes, Vice-Chair PDB and Co-chair of IMPRESS,
BTS/PCRS-UK collaborative leads a session exploring:
- The acutely breathless patient – with Dr Iain
Small, Chair, Primary Care Respiratory Society UK
- Managing COPD: the wider context – led by RCGP
Clinical Champion for Respiratory Disease, Dr Kevin
Gruffydd-Jones
ENDS
Further information
RCGP Press Office – 020 3188 7575/7569
RCGP Conference – on site contacts: 020 3188 7574/7576
Out of hours: 0203 188 7659
press@rcgp.org.uk
You can follow Conference discussions on Twitter with #RCGPAC
and more information on the event itself can be found at: www.rcgp.org.uk/annualconference.
The RCGP Conference App is now available for download. Search
for ‘RCGP Conference’ in your app store.
Notes to editors
The Royal College of General Practitioners is a network of over
44,000 family doctors working to improve care for patients. We work
to encourage and maintain the highest standards of general medical
practice and act as the voice of GPs on education, training,
research and clinical standards.