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Mapping the genome to managing chronic pain: RCGP conference highlights GP diversity

 

19 October 2011

The fifth Annual Primary Care Conference of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), this year being held at the ACC Liverpool, looks to be our biggest and best so far. This year’s theme is Diversity in Practice, to highlight the huge variety of work undertaken by GPs as generalists every day.

 

Clinical highlights for Thursday 22 October include:

 

Diversity: from Hippocrates to HUGO and back again: humanistic lessons from hi-tech science

Dr Linn Getz, Associate Professor and Researcher at the General Practice Research Unit at NTNU, Trondheim, Norway.

 

Chronic pain and nutrition for health

Chair: Dr Imran Rafi , Medical Director, RCGP Clinical Innovation and Research Centre (CIRC).

 

Hot topics in pain medicine

Dr Martin Johnson, RCGP Clinical Champion

 

Nutrition for health: goal setting for lifestyle improvement approaches in primary care

Dr Rachel Pryke, RCGP Clinical Champion.

 

Domestic violence and social exclusion

Co-chairs: Prof. Helen Lester, Chair of RCGP CIRC and Dr Ben Riley, RCGP Medical Director for e-Learning.

  • Domestic violence – Prof. Gene Feder and Dr Alex Sohal, RCGP Clinical Champions
  • Role of primary care in addressing social inclusion – Dr Paramjit Gill, Clinical Reader in Primary Care Research, University of Birmingham

 

Better awareness of dementia and other hidden mental health issues in general practice

Co-chairs: Antony Chuter, Patient Partnership Group and Jenny Aston, RCGP General Practice Foundation (GPF).

  • A relative’s perspective – James Hodgson, Carer
  • A GP’s perspective: awareness and diagnosis of dementia – Dr Greta Rait, GP and Senior Clinical Lecturer, University College London

 

Gastroenterology in primary care

Chair: Dr Jamie Dalrymple, GP and Chair of the Primary Care Society for Gastroenterology.

  • Gastroenterology in primary care – Dr Richard Stevens, GP, Oxford
  • Modern management of irritable bowel syndrome – Prof. Pali Hungin, University of Durham
  • Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease, Barrett’s oesophagus and oesophageal cancer: challenges for primary care – Prof. Roger Jones, King’s College London

 

Misclassification of diabetes and treatment drugs

Chair: Prof. Simon de Lusignan, Chair in Health Care Management, University of Surrey.

  • Classification, coding and misdiagnosis of diabetes – Prof. Kamlesh Khunti, University of Leicester
  • Diabetes commissioning for primary care - Prof. Azhar Farooqi, GP, Leicester

 

 

ENDS

 


Further information

RCGP Press office – 020 3188 7576/7574/7575
Out of hours: 0203 188 7659
press@rcgp.org.uk


Notes to editors

The conference runs from 20-22 October at the ACC Liverpool, and details of the full programme can be found at www.rcgpannualconference.org.uk.


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.