Chair welcome and opening remarks

Chair welcome and opening remarks

Chair welcome and opening remarks

Chair welcome and opening remarks

Putting the person with diabetes first: personalising the management plan

• Be reminded of the processes involved in controlling blood glucose levels in the individual without diabetes and how these are affected by type 2 diabetes.
• Consider the actions of current glucose-lowering treatments 
• Recognise that individuals with type 2 diabetes vary considerably and a number of factors need to be taken into consideration when discussing their treatment options.

COPD – Making it personal

• COPD guideline updates.
• The management of COPD.
• Treatable traits.
• Triple therapy placement in the management of COPD.

Resilience… It’s all about you

• What resilience means for you personally.
• Give you a few hints and tips for improving how resilient you feel.
• Giving you time to remember…resilience is all about YOU!

Identification and management of eating disorders in primary care

• Psychological, behavioural and physical signs and symptoms.
• Supporting patients; engagement and accessing help.
• Managing risk, physical and medical monitoring.

Why is optimising inhaler technique important?

• Suboptimal inhaler technique correlates with reduced disease control  and increased healthcare resources
• The importance of training across HCPs and patients 
• Consideration regarding does the device matter?

Wound challenges from a patients perspective

• What am I looking at and why won’t it go away?
• What can I do about it?
• How can a Health Care Professional help me?

Online services in primary care – what they mean for nurses and their patients

• What online services are available in primary care?
• What are the benefits of online services in primary care for all nurses and their patients?
• How is your role and the care you provide affected by access to online services?
• What/who is out there to help nurses learn and share best practice/ideas?

An Accidental Journey

Jake Mills will discuss his accidental journey that has taken him from a depressed and suicidal comedian to Chief Executive of a national mental health charity and the founder of a vital resource being used by mental health trusts and organisations throughout the UK.

Primary care spirometry – providing a quality service

• Uses and limitations of spirometry.
• Identifying the key components to achieving quality.
• Why quality matters.

A practical guide on the National Shingles Immunisation Programme

• An overview of shingles and its possible complications.
• Provide understanding of the shingles National Immunisation Programme including eligibility criteria.
• Discuss best practice examples of implementation of the programme at a local level.

Needing permission: the experience of self-care and self-compassion in nursing

• Caring for ourselves, alongside our patients.
• Managing the emotions of caring.
• Barriers and facilitators for engaging in self-care.

Why and how to support parent-infant relationships

• The neuroscience of early relationships.
• How we can all support healthy parent-infant interaction.

Atrial Fibrillation: The patient, their dysrhythmia, their risk and the quality of life

• Strategies for seeking AF.
• Talking to patients about the cardiovascular risks and the risks of intervention.
• Improving the patient’s quality of life through rate control and when to refer on.

The role of practice and community nurses in appropriate antibiotic use

• Overview of antimicrobial prescribing within primary care.
• What does antimicrobial stewardship mean to you?
• Educating patients around appropriate antibiotic use.

Rethinking conflict resolution – Strategies to support nurses in the community

• Understanding how mental resilience affects conflict resolution.
• Simple strategies for managing conflict outside of the acute settings.
• Managing conflict when mental health and dementia are present.

Equally Well: Improving physical health support for people with mental health problems

• How nurses can reduce the mortality gap.
• Why equal health is everyone’s business.

Diet and type 2 diabetes remission: the latest evidence and practical guidance

• Is type 2 diabetes (T2DM) remission achievable for our patients?
• What dietary approaches can achieve remission in T2DM?
• What support do our patients need to be successful?

The primary AIM of osteoporosis care: Advances in the assessment, intervention and management

• Primary and secondary prevention of osteoporosis.
• Active case finding of individuals at risk of osteoporosis.
• Current trends in the management of osteoporosis.

Delegation: a win-win solution to nursing pressures

• How to delegate safely: who, what, when, why.
• Balancing the Role and Responsibility of RNs in everyday practice.
• Be confident of your Accountability, Duty of Care and the Law.

Keynote: The NHS long term plan and its implications for nurses