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Please view our latest catalogue of events available for you to download and print to share with colleagues.

From Falls Prevention Conference today:

"There is a lack of long term follow up classes for falls in the community....an integrated exercise continuum needs to be commissioned across health & local authority/voluntary sector."

Jackie Riglin Clinical Associate for Falls Royal College of Physicians

Quotes from todays conference:

"Nearly ALL surgery should be day or very short stay" Dr Mary Stocker, Consultant Anaesthetist, South Devon Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and Council Member, British Association of Day Surgery

for more quotes and slides click here

Sir Richard Thompson, President, The Royal College of Physicians states that "There is a huge amount of evidence that mortality is higher at weekends in hospitals, and even higher on public holidays". For details of the evidence see presentation here

Prof Ian Cumming OBE, National NHS Managing Director for Quality speaks on Quality During Transition

Slides available here

Our updated catalogue of conferences and masterclasses is now available.

Click on the link for a full list of all events from now until June 2012.

"Ward Rounds are the Pit Stops of Clinical Care"

Dr Gordon Caldwell speaking at Healthcare Conferences UK's effective Ward Rounds Conference

Ward Rounds are the “pit stops” of clinical care, and require as much study and optimisation as a Formula One team would put into their pit stop routines. I hope you will go away from the conference today enthusiastic to start to optimise your rounds. Your patients deserve it!

Presentation available for download

Dr Charles Gutteridge, National Clinical Director for Informatics, Department of Health speaks on the transition from national to local systems

We have opened Nurse Clinics 2012 to abstract submissions.  

Being admitted to hospital in England at the weekend is risky, experts say.

Research company Dr Foster came to this conclusion after finding a "worrying" 10% spike in deaths compared with weekdays across 147 hospital trusts.

BBC News 28th November 2011

Solution - see our 7 Day Health and Social Care Conference

National Audit of Psychological Therapies Results

Dr John Cape Clinical Advisor, The National Audit of Psychological Therapies presents the results at todays conference

Joint Pledge on Work and Mental Well-Being announced today

Minister for Welfare Reform Lord David Freud speaking at Psychological Therapies conference today

Minister for Care Services, Paul Burstow MP speaking this morning at Psychological Therapies Conference, London

Highlights and quotes from this mornings opening address here

Consensus Statement on evidence for Psychological Therapies

New - released at todays conference on Psychological Therapies

Minister for Care Services MP Paul Burstow to speak at Psychological Therapies Conference on Thursday

The Minister will open the conference this year addressing the issue of

50 Years On: did we "underestimate their powers of resistance"?
How can talking therapists support the Coalition’s radical ambition to make our health and social care system work better for the people who need it?

Nurse Clinics 2011

The Annual Nurse Clinics conference held last week in Manchester showed once again the difference nurses are making running clinics to improve patient care. Dr Wilma Scholte op Reimer focused on her experiences of developing a patient cardiology clinic in Amsterdam within a university setting that brings together patient care, education and research. The presentation can be viewed here.

We are now planning Nurse Clinics 2012 which will take place in London on 20th November 2011- Save the date

Dr Diana Rose, Chair, Guideline Development Group, Service User Experience Quality Standard, NICE and Prof Tim Kendall, Director of the Collaborating Centre for Mental Health speak at Healthcare Conferences UK Conference -  Service User Experience in Mental Health, 15th November 2011 in London on the new Quality Standard for Service User Experience in Mental Health which is now due to be released in December 2012

"Service users should have centre stage in mental health...monitoring what happens, ensuring their views are immediately accessible to trust boards and ensuring no decision is made without involvement... we need a big change" said Prof Tim Kendall, Director, The Collaborating Centre for Mental Health

Diane Rose commented that "the new quality standard will lay down what service users should expect from services"