Presentations 2008

Below you can download presentations from the 2008 RCGP Annual National Primary Care Conference.  Where more than one presentation was given, please click on the individual speakers' names to access their presentation.

Thursday 2 October 2008

Keynote 1: Ministerial Address

Keynote 2: The John Hunt Lecture - An international perspective - Don Berwick

Concurrent Stream A

A1 - Paediatrics is not always child's play!! - Jon Turner, Julian Sandell

A2 - Patient Safety Panel Discussion

A3 - The big hitters: Emerging models - Andy White, Richard Smith, Angelo Fernandes

A4 - Quality in Primary Care - Helen Lester, Stephen Campbell, Nigel Sparrow

A5 - Disruptive Innovation in Primary Care - Derek Gallen

A6 - Getting involved with research - Paul Wallace, Julia Miller

A7 - MRCGP: now so much more than an exam - Bill Reith, Mike Bewick

A8 - Practitioner Health Programme - Clare Gerada

 

Concurrent Stream B

B1 - New guidelines on the management of persistent pain in primary care - Joan Hester

B1 - Early presentation of neurological disease - Alistair Church

B2 - Learning from World Leaders - James Reason, David Pendleton

B3 - Personal continuity under fire - Gilles de Wildt

B4 - Managing the impact of the contract - John Chisholm

B5 - GP appraisal - Malcolm Lewis

B6 - How to innovate in practice - Steve Cox

B7 - Short Papers

1. Who initiates sickness absence?

2. Evaluating the practice environment of practitioners where there have been concerns about their performance

3. Raising awareness of CKD among South Asian groups & in primary care

4. Influence of GP opening hours on delay in seeking healthcare after transient ischaemic attack and minor stroke.

B8 - Rural practice - Adrian ward, Jeremy Phillips, Gordon Baird

 

Concurrent Stream C

C1 - Respiratory update - Alan Williams

C1 - Recent advances in interventional cardiology - Suneel Talwar

C2 - The medical generalist - outmoded concept? - Iona Heath

C3 - Essential general practice updates - Ruth Chambers, Nigel Sparrow

C4 - Lessons learnt from disease monitoring in general practice - Douglas Fleming

C5 - Knotted rubber bands and buckets - James Reason

C6 - Short Papers

1. MLD and CDT

2. Using a health check MOT to identify unknown risk factors and explore why they are unknown

3. A retrospective observational case-based study of implanon insertion in an inner city general practice 

4. The impact of the quality and outcomes framework on blood pressure, cholesterol and HbA1c in at risk patients in a suburban general practice

C7 - Supporting the RCGP Curriculum Statement "Genetics in Primarr Care" - Peter Farndon

C8 - Writing an effective and successful business plan - Barclays

 

Friday 3 October 2008

Plenary

Keynote 3: The Panel Debate

Keynote 4: The commercialisation of general practice - Professor Allyson Pollock

Concurrent Stream D

D1 - Exercise toolkit for practitioners in primary care - David Smart

D2 - The politics of OOH - Matt Tee

D3 - Informed patients case study - Anthony Chuter, Alison Hill

D4 - Branding - it's for baked beans not for surgeries - Ian Phillips

D5 - The bionic curriculum - Ben Riley

D6 - Information management - Neal Maskrey

D7 - Use of patient data / electronic records in research - Nigel Mathers

D8 - Short Papers

1. Medical leadership competency framework

2. A robust system for assessing the educational quality of your local postgraduate medical education

3. Integrating academic / service activities within primary care trusts

4. Good practice in supporting carers in primary care settings

 

Concurrent Stream E

E1 - Women's health session - Sally Hope

E2 - Positive general practice - Ben Page

E3 - Patient participation groups - Graham Box, Muriel James, Sue Line, Simon Gregory

E4 - The RCGP curriculum in action - Justin Allen, Charlotte Tulinius

E5 - Maintaining profits in the practice - Kathie Applebee

E6 - Short Papers

1. General practice foundation training

2. Better representations of clinical progress

3. Early treatment with prednisolone or acyclovir in Bell's palsy

E7 - CPD: your knowledge MOT - Ben Riley

E7 - Study Groups - Ken Lawton

E7 - Pitfalls in Practice - Richard Dempster

E8 - Shared care records systems - Libby Morris

 

Concurrent Stream F

F1 - Top tips for safer prescribing - Tony Avery

F3 - Media portrayal of general practice - John Illman

F4 - How does CPD support recertification - Nigel Sparrow, John Howard

F5 - Teams without walls - Rodney Burnham

F6 - Performing stable angina - Gene Feder

F6 - Paracetamol and Ibuprofen for the treatment of fever in children - Sandra Hollinghurst

F6 - An RCT of dipsticks, symptoms scores, and self help advice in the management of urinary tract infection - Paul Little

F7 - How to change your staff contracts of employment - Hilary Haman

F8 - Short Papers

1. A study of publication practices of junior hospital doctors

2. Safety in the eyes of the beholder

3. To validate a pre- and post- attachment tool to assess doctors' perceptions concerning foundation training attachment in general practice

4. Patient access to health information

 

Saturday 4 October 2008

Concurrent Stream G

G1 - 5 minute updates about NICE and SIGN guidance - Graham Archard, Norma O'Flynn

G2 - Senior Educators Workshop - Charlotte Tulinius

G3 - Health and work - how to manage the consultation - Debbie Cohen, Sayeed Khan

G4 - CIRC - one year on - Nigel Mathers

G5 - National strategy for preventing VTE

G7 - Involving your patients in research - Rosemary Humphreys, Roger Steel, Niroshan Siriwardena

G8 - One profession, many careers - Karen Fairhurst, David Wrigley, Andrew Thomson, Graeme Walker

Keynote 5: What's the College up to now? - Professor Steve Field

Keynote 6: Coolness, courage and leadership - Major Phil Ashby