Discounts-Conferences, Courses, Summits & Masterclasses
For the following conferences and masterclasses, ABPN members can claim a 20% discount is available by quoting ref: hcuk20abpn when booking
Quality Accreditation, Monitoring and Assurance in Health and Social Care
FRIDAY 8th DECEMBER 2023
VIRTUAL, Online
This conference focuses on quality accreditation, monitoring and assurance. The conference will support you to develop systems and processes for local accreditation for quality. Accreditation can be used as a tool to encouraging ownership of continuous quality improvement, reduce variation and increase staff pride and team working.
There will be an extended focus on meeting the CQC Quality Statements in line with the new assessment framework.
For further information and to book your place visit
https://www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/conferences-masterclasses/quality-accreditation or click on the title above or email kerry@hc-uk.org.uk
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Monitoring & Reducing Medication Errors: High Risk Medicines & Patient Groups
FRIDAY 8th DECEMBER 2023
VIRTUAL, Online
This conference focuses on prioritising high risk medications and high risk patient groups to enable your interventions to have the highest impact on patient care and reduction in patient harm. The conference which aims to bring together clinicians and pharmacists, managers, and medication safety officers and leads will reflect on medication safety challenges, understand current national developments, and to debate and discuss key issues and areas they are facing in improving and monitoring medication safety, and reducing medication errors and harm in hospitals. The conference will also update delegates on the new Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) and implications for medication safety incident investigation.
For further information and to book your place visit
https://www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/conferences-masterclasses/reducing-medication-errors or click on the title above or email frida@hc-uk.org.uk
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A Practical Guide to Effective Nurse Prescribing in End of Life Care For Current and Aspiring Nurse Prescribers
TUESDAY 12th DECEMBER 2023
VIRTUAL, Online
This important national conference provides an essential update for current and aspiring non medical 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 non medical prescriber in end of life care.
For further information and to book your place visit
https://www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/virtual-online-courses/nurse-prescribing-in-end-of-life-care or click on the title above or email frida@hc-uk.org.uk
Follow on Twitter @HCUK_Clare #NMPEndofLife
Developing the Role of the Nursing Associate
WEDNESDAY 13th DECEMBER 2023
Virtual, Online
This conference will update delegates on developing the role of the Nursing Associate – understanding the elements of the role, and how the role is being delivered in practice. Through national updates, case studies from the Nursing Associate original initiator sites, e-posters, and perspectives from Nursing Associates the conference will look at the developing role, regulation of the role, accountability, support and practice development, competence and how you can develop and support the role in your service. With the first Nursing Associates now having gone through revalidation the conference will also focus on preparing for revalidation.
For further information and to book your place visit
https://www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/virtual-online-courses/developing-the-role-of-the-nursing-associate or click on the title above or email frida@hc-uk.org.uk
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Stop the Pressure: Pressure Ulcer Prevention & Management
WEDNESDAY 13th DECEMBER 2023
Virtual, Online
This conference focuses on the prevention and management of pressure ulcers including monitoring, reporting and improvement. The conference will open with National Developments from the National Wound Care Strategy Programme including the new Clinical Pathway for the prevention and management of pressure ulcers and the Pressure Ulcer Best Practice Bundle. The conference will continue with a focus on training and educating frontline staff, and an extended masterclass on Pressure Ulcer Assessment, Reporting & Management.
For further information and to book your place visit
https://www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/virtual-online-courses/pressure-ulcer-prevention or click on the title above or email aman@hc-uk.org.uk
Follow this conference on Twitter @HCUK_Clare #stopthepressure
A Practical Guide to Effective Nurse Prescribing in Cancer Care
THURSDAY 14th DECEMBER 2023
VIRTUAL, Online
This conference focuses on Nurse Prescribing in Cancer Care. Through national updates and practical case studies the conference will demonstrate how the effective use of nurse prescribing in cancer care can improve patient care, experience and outcomes. The conference will focus on developing competence and confidence in non medical prescribing in cancer care, including using the using the National Competency Framework for all Prescribers. Case study sessions will demonstrate how prescribing practice can be improve care for people with cancer and will focus on maintaining and demonstrating prescribing competence, prescribing for pain management, chemotherapy prescribing, Immunotherapy induced side effects and how to manage them, prescribing for co-morbidity and the importance of holistic assessment, prescribing for symptom control, and prescribing in end life care including controlled drugs.
For further information and to book your place visit
https://www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/virtual-online-courses/a-practical-guide-to-effective-nurse-prescribing-in-cancer-care or click on the title above or email kerry@hc-uk.org.uk
Follow on Twitter @HCUK_Clare #NMPCancer
Nurse Prescribing & Management of Controlled Drugs
THURSDAY 25th JANUARY 2024
VIRTUAL, Online
Nurse Prescribing of controlled drugs in the UK is a carefully regulated practice designed to ensure patient safety while allowing nurses to prescribe specific controlled drugs where it is clinically appropriate and within their professional competence. This conference focuses on the effective prescribing and governance of controlled drugs by Nurse Prescribers. The CQC have identified non medical prescribing of controlled drugs as a growing area, and therefore is it important to ensure that the practice is safe, effective, and accountable. The conference will focus on developing the role and skills of nurse prescribers in the prescribing of controlled drugs to build confidence, competence and compliance with the regulations.
For further information and to book your place visit
https://www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/virtual-online-courses/nurse-prescribing-controlled-drugs or click on the title above or email aman@hc-uk.org.uk
Follow on Twitter @HCUK_Clare #NMPControlledDrugs
Urgent Community Response Services
TUESDAY 30th JANUARY 2024
VIRTUAL, Online
With continued pressures facing the NHS, Urgent Community Response Services (UCRS) have never been needed more. Since there introduction in the NHS Long-Term Plan, Urgent Community Response Services have played a pivotal role in reducing hospital admissions & delivering urgent care within a patient’s own home.
In this conference we will explore how a diverse range of healthcare professionals have developed effective solutions within Urgent Care Response teams to tackle day one emergency care and reduce A&E admissions and hospital stays.
For further information and to book your place visit
https://www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/virtual-online-courses/urgent-community-response or click on the title above or email frida@hc-uk.org.uk
Follow this conference on Twitter @HCUK_Clare #UCRServices
Nurse Prescribing Leadership Summit 2024
FRIDAY 2nd FEBRUARY 2024
VIRTUAL, Online
The 2024 Nurse Prescribing Leadership Summit, which is now in its Eighth year, will take virtually and will bring together Nurse Prescribers to understand current issues and the national context, and to debate and discuss key issues and areas they are facing in practice. This CPD certified conference provides a unique opportunity to learn from the experiences of other nurse prescribers and develop your skills as an effective Nurse Prescriber. The programme will focus on developing your skills, competence and confidence in Nurse Prescribing. Through national updates, practical case studies and a choice of interactive workshops the conference aims to support you to improve both prescribing practice and patient care, and provide networking opportunities with nurses who are prescribing in your clinical specialty.
For further information and to book your place visit
https://www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/virtual-online-courses/nurse-prescribing-leadership-summit or click on the title above or email kerry@hc-uk.org.uk
Follow on Twitter @HCUK_Clare #NursePrescribingSummit
IV Therapy Summit 2024: Extravasation - Improving Practice and Patient Safety
Friday 15th March 2024.
London and virtually (SPECIAL PRICE £195 +vat* with code hcuk195abpn)
Chaired by Andrew Barton, National Lead for Extravasation, Chair, NIVAS and Nurse Consultant in Vascular Access and IV Therapy, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, this conference will provide you with practical advice and guidance for improving practice and patient safety to reduce extravasation injury, ensuring you are aware of the risk of extravasation and how to recognise, treat and escalate extravasation injuries when they do occur.
From 1st April 2011 until 31st March 2021 NHS Resolution received 444 claims relating to extravasation injuries, of the 197 settled with damages paid, 23% were in paediatrics. (Did you know? Extravasation, NHS Resolution Nov 22)
Sara Melville, Nurse Consultant and Lead for Advanced Vascular Access Services, Alder Hey Children’s Hospital will share her experience of reducing extravasation injury in paediatrics, looking at recognition and management of extravasation in paediatrics, and preventative measures to reduce occurrence of extravasation injury.
In 2010 Sara established a new vascular access and IV therapy service in Alder Hey, which hassuccessfully reduced CLABSI rates by 75%. The service supports the medical teams by providing a line insertion service. The service inserts both central and peripheral access in patient from about 2kg to 120kg, covering all areas both inpatients and outpatient departments. It is predominately ward based and nurse led. The team also provides training and education in vascular access and intravenous therapy to the multidisciplinary team, clinical support, auditing and is continuously aiming to improve the patient care and patient experience in the paediatric population in relation to vascular access devices.
For the full programme content, speaker line-up and to book visit www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/conferences-masterclasses/iv-therapy-summit
Masterclasses
A journey through empathy and emotional awareness in communication
MON, 11 DEC 2023
A Journey Through Empathy and Emotional Awareness in Communication
TUE, 6 FEB 2024 Finance for Ward Managers: The Ward Manager’s Finance Survival Guide
TUE, 6 FEB 2024 Resolving Challenging Cases and Complex Hospital Discharges: Legal Considerations