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Agenda
STREAM A CVD/Diabetes MORNING SESSION: CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE | Stream B Respiratory/Musculoskeletal MORNING SESSION: RESPIRATORY CONDITIONS |
Session 1 - 09.30-10.00 Cardiology challenges
| Session 1 - 09.30-10.00 Respiratory medicine dilemmas
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Session 2 - 10.00-10.30 Efficacy and safety in anticoagulant therapy | Session 2 - 10.00-10.30 New ways to tackle smoking in the context of respiratory disease
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10.30 - 11.00 Coffee and Networking | 10.30 - 11.00 Coffee and Networking |
Session 3 - 11.00-11.30 Managing heart failure
PLUS 11.30-11.50: ECG interpretation workshop | Session 3 - 11.00-11.30 What’s new in COPD
Professor David Halpin, consultant physician and honorary associate professor, Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital PLUS 11.30-11.50: Spirometry interpretation workshop [speaker to be confirmed] |
Session 4 - 11.50-12.20 Keeping up to speed with hypertension
| Session 4 - 11.50-12.20 Cough, wheeze and asthma in children
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Session 5 - 12.20-12.50 Sponsored session | Session 5 - 12.20-12.50 Sponsored session |
12.50-13.50 Lunch and networking | 12.50-13.50 Lunch and networking |
STREAM A AFTERNOON SESSION: DIABETES | STREAM B AFTERNOON SESSION: MUSCULOSKELETAL |
Session 6 - 13.50-14.20 Achieving HbA1c targets
| Session 6 - 13.50-14.20 A pragmatic approach to osteoarthritis
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Session 7 - 14.20-14.50 Rational prescribing in Type 2 diabetes: a case-based presentation •The available treatment choices throughout the natural history of type 2 diabetes •The importance of identifying which patients with diabetes require intensive glycaemic control •Which combination of treatments should be used in the patient with an elevated HbA1c on maximum oral hypoglycaemic therapy? Dr Mark Vanderpump, consultant physician and honorary senior lecturer in diabetes and endocrinology, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust | Session 7 - 14.20-14.50 Five key points on rheumatoid arthritis •Challenges: diagnosing early RA and referring on appropriately, use of NICE guidelines •Prescribing: use of steroids before referral •Effective dosage: tips on DMARD monitoring and anti-TNF drugs •Referral do's and don'ts and red flags, when urgent referral is required, management of flares •QOF and RA Dr Louise Warburton, GP, Malling Health, and GPSI in rheumatology and musculoskeletal medicine |
14.50 -15.20 Tea and networking | 14.50 -15.20 Tea and networking |
Session 8 - 15.20-15.50 Sponsored session | Session 8 - 15.20-15.50 Sponsored session |
Session 9 - 15.50-16.20 Addressing erectile dysfunction in diabetes
| Session 9 - 15.50-16.20 Osteoporosis: a primary care problem and a problem for primary care
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Session 10 - 16.20-16.50 Three key clinical challenges in diabetes
| Session 10 - 16.20-16.50 GP management of fibromyalgia
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Conference closes 16.50 | Conference closes 16.50 |