Discounts-Conferences, Courses & Summits

The following great discounts are available for conferences and masterclasses.  
A 20% discount is available by quoting ref:  hcuk20abpn when booking

The Coroner Role & Preparing for Coroner’s Inquest: Learning from Deaths
WEDNESDAY 11 AUGUST 2021
VIRTUAL, Online
This virtual conference focuses on the role of the Coroner and preparing and attending Coroner’s Inquests.  Delegates will hear practical tips and advice for what to expect and how to support staff and family through the process.  The day will also address the impact of Covid-19 on the Coroner role.
For further information and to book your place visit 
https://www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/conferences-masterclasses/coroner-role or email kate@hc-uk.org.uk
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Developing your skills as an Effective Ward Manager
THURSDAY 12 AUGUST 2021
VIRTUAL, Online
This conference aims to bring together current and aspiring Ward Managers to understand current issues and the national context, and to develop your skills as a current or aspiring Ward Manager. The conference will open with reflections on the characteristics and qualities of an effective Ward Manager, and understanding your role within quality and specifically meeting the CQC Quality Ratings at Ward level. The conference will include a look at the challenges and issues as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic for Ward Managers.
Whether you are currently a Ward Manager, or aspiring to be one, this event provides a unique opportunity to learn from the experiences of other Ward Managers, Nurse Directors & National Experts to develop your skills as an effective Ward Manager.
https://www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/conferences-masterclasses/effective-ward-manager   or email nicki@hc-uk.org.uk
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​Caldicott Guardian Training Course
TUESDAY 17 AUGUST 2021
TUESDAY 7 SEPTEMBER 2021
VIRTUAL, Online
This one day course provides practical Caldicott Training for both new and more experienced Caldicott Guardians, their deputies and others, involved in applying the Caldicott Principles across a wide range of organisations. It provides sound foundations for those seeking to expand their understanding of the Caldicott Guardian Role, and its function within Information Governance, and inspiration as to how it can be implemented and developed in their own organisations. The content is based on the latest national guidance including the Caldicott Guardian Manual.  A range of topics are covered including: the ethical and legal considerations in information sharing, confidentiality, handling requests from the Police, domestic violence, relatives, assurance and the regulators.  Handouts, Templates and other tools for decision making and recording decisions are provided. 
For further information and to book your place visit
https://www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/conferences-masterclasses/caldicott-guardian-training-course  or email kerry@hc-uk.org.uk

​Deteriorating Patient Summit
THURSDAY 19th August  2021 
The Deteriorating Patient Summit focuses on recognising and responding to the deteriorating patient through improving the reliability of patient observations and ensuring quality of care. The conference will include National Developments including the recent recommendations from the Royal College of Physicians on NEWS2 and Covid-19, and implementing the recommendations from the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch Report Investigation into recognising and responding to critically unwell patients. The conference will include practical case study based sessions on identifying patients at risk of deterioration, improving practice in patient observations, responding to the deteriorating patient, improving escalation and understanding success factors in escalation, sepsis & covid-19, involving patients and families in recognising deterioration, and  improving the communication and use of NEWS2 in the community, including care homes, and at the interface of care. 
For more information visit: https://www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/virtual-online-courses/deteriorating-patient-summit   or email kerry@hc-uk.org.uk
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Implementing the Duty of Candour with Empathy
TUESDAY 7th SEPTEMBER 2021
VIRTUAL, Online
This masterclass will cover the new guidance and provide participants with an in-depth knowledge of what needs to be done to comply with the duty of candour; clarify ‘grey areas’ and provide advice on dealing with difficult situations which may arise. It will provide participants with an understanding of good practice in implementing the duty and, in particular doing so in a meaningful way with empathy, to not only comply, but to work with patients and loved ones in a way that puts the emotional experience at the heart of communication.
Anyone with responsibility for implementing the duty of candour should attend, whether as a health or social care professional or at an organisational level, be it in the NHS, private healthcare or social care. Health and social care professionals; staff with responsibility for quality, safety, clinical governance, safety investigations, complaints or CQC compliance, patient experience and executive teams would benefit from attending.
For further information and to book your place visit 
https://www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/conferences-masterclasses/duty-of-candour
or email kate@hc-uk.org.uk

Systems thinking and engineering in Outpatients
TUESDAY 7 SEPTEMBER 2021
VIRTUAL, Online
Facilitated by Dr Kate Silvester, this is the last in a series of five half day virtual workshops, designed to introduce delegates to the skills for improving flow through Outpatient clinics and services. Delegates will leave with a combination of theory, practical exercises and examples so that they can ‘give it a go’ in their own service. All Outpatient service managers, staff and information analytics staff should attend. This final masterclass concentrates on systems thinking and engineering. What happens to demand for services downstream of Outpatients e.g. diagnostics and surgery, if we tackle our queues in outpatients?
For further information and to book your place visit 
https://www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/conferences-masterclasses/outpatients-systems or email kate@hc-uk.org.uk
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Decisions about Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR): Ensuring Effective & Person Centred Practice
WEDNESDAY 15th SEPTEMBER 2021
VIRTUAL, Online
Chaired by Davina Hehir Director of Policy & Legal Strategy Compassion in Dying, this virtual conference focuses on the important issue of effective person centred practice in DNACPR decisions and communication. You will have the opportunity to network with colleagues who are working to improve DNACPR practice, self assess and reflect on your own practice and gain CPD accreditation points contributing to professional development and revalidation evidence.
For further information and to book your place visit https://www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/virtual-online-courses/cpr-decisions or email kate@hc-uk.org.uk
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Improving Mental Health Support for Asylum Seekers and Refugees
TUESDAY 12 OCTOBER 2021
VIRTUAL, Online
We are pleased to announce the Eighth Annual Conference to focus on improving Mental Health Support for Asylum Seekers and Refugees. Angelina Jalonen Head of Therapeutic Services The Refugee Council will give a national update which will look at supporting refugees through the hardship and isolation due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and focus sessions will cover; multi-tiered and comprehensive MHPSS Systems & Psychological First Aid, working with refugees to improve mental health, and best practice examples of specialist clinical interventions.
https://www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/conferences-masterclasses/improving-mental-health-support-for-asylum-seekers-and-refugees   or email kerry@hc-uk.org.uk
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Safeguarding Adolescents and Young Adults: Delivering a Strengths-Based Approach
WEDNESDAY 3 NOVEMBER 2021
VIRTUAL, Online
We are pleased to announce National Safeguarding Adolescents and Young Adults Conference which this year will focus on improving safeguarding practice: delivering a strengths based approach, transitional safeguarding, contextual safeguarding and complex safeguarding. Through national expert sessions and practical case studies the conference aims to bring together safeguarding leads working with adolescents and young people to understand current issues and the national context, and to debate and discuss key issues and areas you are facing in practice including supporting adolescents and young adults through and beyond COVID-19, and developing a strengths based approach to adolescent safeguarding.
For further information and to book your place visit
https://www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/conferences-masterclasses/safeguarding-adolescents-and-young-adults or email kerry@hc-uk.org.uk
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Reducing and improving the use of Restrictive Interventions & Practice: Managing Acute Disturbance, Violence and Aggression
FRIDAY 5 NOVEMBER 2021
VIRTUAL, Online
This virtual conference will focus on reducing restrictive interventions in line with national guidance and the October 2020 Care Quality Commission Report, and ensuring adherence to the National NICE Quality Standard on Violence and Aggression. This focus on reducing restrictive practice is particularly important in light of COVID-19 pandemic where mental health services have reported spikes in incidents of physical restraint or seclusion on patients, driven by covid-19 restrictions (HSJ 5th June 2020).
For further information and to book your place visit
https://www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/conferences-masterclasses/restrictive-interventions-practice or email nicki@hc-uk.org.uk
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CAMHS National Summit 2021: Transforming Mental Health Services for Children & Young Adults
TUESDAY 16 NOVEMBER 2021
VIRTUAL, Online
This national conference focuses on transforming mental health services for children and young people, ensuring early intervention, and developing integrated services with clear care pathways from first intervention to crisis and inpatient care. The conference will also look at national developments and learning from the Covid-19 pandemic and how CAMHS has had to adapt and innovate to provide effective care. The conference will address monitoring outcomes in CYP Mental Health including the development of a National CYP Mental Health Outcomes Metric.
For further information and to book your place visit
https://www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/conferences-masterclasses/camhs-national-summit  or email kerry@hc-uk.org.uk
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Nurse Clinics 2021
​THURSDAY 18th NOVEMBER  2021
VIRTUAL, Online
We are pleased to announce the 13th Annual Nurse Clinics Conference. Chaired by Dr Richard Hatchett Author Nurse Led Clinic: Practice Issues Nurse Clinics 2021 will provide specialist nurses with a valuable opportunity to hear national updates and best practice for working at advanced practice, and setting up and running nurse led clinics and services in primary, secondary and community care across a number of specialties. With sessions designed for those who are looking to improve the effectiveness or expand existing nurse led clinics and services, or for beginners looking to set up their first clinic this event is essential for all nurses offering nurse led clinics and services.
For further information and to book your place visit 
https://www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/conferences-masterclasses/nurse-clinics or email nicki@hc-uk.org.uk
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A Practical Guide to Effective Nurse Prescribing for Pain
TUESDAY 21 SEPTEMBER 2021
VIRTUAL, Online
This important national conference provides an essential update for current and aspiring nurse prescribers on prescribing for pain. Pain is a growing area of nurse prescribing and one of the most common areas. This makes it essential that nurse prescribers maintain the competence and skills to prescribe for pain in an effective way, working with patients to improve pain outcomes both in the inpatient setting and the community.
Through national updates and extended interactive practical case studies delegates will hear how to develop and maintain prescribing competence, and how to develop effectiveness in post qualification practice. The conference will also reflect on pain prescribing during the Covid-19 pandemic, update delegates on the  NICE Guideline on Chronic Pain, and on current developments with regard to opioid prescribing.
For further information and to book your place visit 
https://www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/conferences-masterclasses/nurse-prescribing-for-pain  or email nicki@hc-uk.org.uk
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A Practical Guide to Demonstrating and Improving Nurse Prescribing Competence & Practice
FRIDAY 24th SEPTEMBER 2021
VIRTUAL, Online
This conference focuses on demonstrating and improving prescribing competence and practice and use of the updated National Competency Framework for all Prescribers. The conference will also update delegates on the Competency Framework for Designated Prescribing Practitioners. Through national updates, practical case studies and extended expert sessions, this conference focuses on demonstrating and improving prescribing competence and practice – embedding the competency framework, and ten competency dimensions for all prescribers.
For further information and to book your place visit 
https://www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/conferences-masterclasses/nurse-prescribing-competence-practice  or email kerry@hc-uk.org.uk
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Effective Nurse Prescribing in End of Life Care
WEDNESDAY 29th SEPTEMBER 2021
VIRTUAL, Online
Chaired by Carolyn Doyle, Professional Lead Community & End of Life Care Nursing, Royal College of Nursing, this important national conference provides an essential update for current and aspiring nurse prescribers on prescribing at the end of life. It is widely recognized that pain and symptom control at the end of life is not always optimal, the development of non medical prescribing has a key role in improving pain and symptom control for patients at the end of life. The conference, which includes national updates, extended in depth sessions and case studies will focus on developing your skills and competence as a nurse prescriber in end of life care.
https://www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/conferences-masterclasses/effective-nurse-prescribing-in-end-of-life-care or email kerry@hc-uk.org.uk
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Ward Accreditation for Quality
WEDNESDAY 29 SEPTEMBER 2021
VIRTUAL, Online
This conference focuses on developing systems and processes for ward accreditation for quality. Ward accreditation can be used as a tool to encouraging ownership of continuous quality improvement at ward level, reduce variation and increase staff pride and team working within their ward areas. Through practical case studies of NHS Trusts that have successfully introduced ward accreditation systems the conference will provide practical guide to implementing systems, and improving staff engagement in driving improvement on the ward.
For further information and to book your place visit 
https://www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/conferences-masterclasses/ward-accreditation-for-quality-conference  or email kate@hc-uk.org.uk
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Supporting Nurses in Difficulty & Improving Wellbeing and Mental Health in Nursing
FRIDAY 8 OCTOBER 2021
VIRTUAL, Online
Nursing in the NHS is under pressure, a third of nurses in the NHS have considered leaving their role in the past year. When difficulties or concerns arise it is essential that nurses are supported in a positive way. This conference focuses on improving mental health and wellbeing in nursing, and supporting nurses experiencing difficulty or concerns at work. Through national updates, lived experience and case studies the conference will provide you with practical advice to enable you to better support nurses through the Covid-19 pandemic. The conference will highlight developments in supporting nurses through physical and mental health concerns, complaints, performance concerns, stress and fitness to practice. The conference will support you to improve processes and practice with regard to supporting nurses and the practicalities of managing concerns in a supportive way. Through national developments, learning from lived experience of nurses who have experienced concerns and mental health issues, and case studies from experienced Directors of Nursing at NHS Trusts on how to effectively support and manage nurses through complaints or concerns about nursing practice. There will also be an update on your role and responsibility with regard to the revised NMC fitness to practise procedures which put more emphasis on local resolution. The conference will also focus on improving mental health and wellbeing for nurses from diverse backgrounds.
For further information and to book your place visit
https://www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/conferences-masterclasses/nurses-in-difficulty or email kate@hc-uk.org.uk
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Developing your skills as an Effective Ward Manager
FRIDAY 15th OCTOBER 2021 
This conference aims to bring together current and aspiring Ward Managers to understand current issues and the national context, and to develop your skills as a current or aspiring Ward Manager. The conference will open with reflections on the characteristics and qualities of an effective Ward Manager, and understanding your role within quality and specifically meeting the CQC Quality Ratings at Ward level. The conference will include a look at the challenges and issues as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic for Ward Managers.
For more information visit https://www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/conferences-masterclasses/effective-ward-manager   or email nicki@hc-uk.org.uk
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A Practical Guide to Human Factors in Healthcare
TUESDAY 19th OCTOBER 2021
VIRTUAL, Online
Aimed at Clinicians and Managers, this national virtual conference will provide a practical guide to human factors in healthcare, and how a human factors approach can improve patient care, quality, process and safety.
This conference will enable you to:
  • Network with colleagues who are working to embed a human factors approach
  • Learn from outstanding practice in using human factors and ergonomics to improve patient safety and quality
  • Reflect on national developments and learning 
  • Understand the tools and methodology
  • Develop your skills in training and educating frontline staff in human factors
  • Reflect on how an understanding of human factors can change both culture and practice
  • Understand how you can improve patient safety incident by using a human factors approach 
  • Learn from case studies demonstrating the practical application of human factors to improve patient care
  • Self assess and reflect on your own practice
  • Gain CPD accreditation points contributing to professional development and revalidation evidence
For further information and to book your place visit
https://www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/virtual-online-courses/human-factors-in-healthcare   or email kerry@hc-uk.org.uk
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A Practical Guide to Developing your skills as an Effective Nurse, Midwifery and AHP Directors
THURSDAY 4th NOVEMBER 2021
VIRTUAL, Online
This Virtual Conference will  bring together current and aspiring Nurse Directors together to understand current issues and the national context, including leading through Covid-19,  and to debate and discuss key issues and areas they are facing in practice.
Following National Update sessions the conference will include extended masterclasses focusing on developing your leadership skills and competence as a current or aspiring nurse director, leading quality improvement and managing patient concerns and improving patient experience. Throughout the day sessions will look at preparing for a role as a Nurse Director, and learning from experienced nurse directors on how to manage the complexities of the role whilst remaining visible to staff and patients. The conference will conclude with an extended masterclass with small interactive breakout groups focusing on difficult issues for nurse directors such as sustaining work life balance, managing nurses in difficult or experiencing performance concerns, leading and motivating through difficult times such as CQC inspection, negative press or trust mergers, and changing the culture of the organization.
For further information and to book your place visit https://www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/conferences-masterclasses/effective-nurse-director  or email kate@hc-uk.org.uk
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