Past Events

This conference focuses on Prehabilitation – Principles and Practice and offers a comprehensive and practical guide to delivering an effective prehabilitation programme, ensuring patients are fit and optimised for surgery. Attendees will gain valuable insights into the latest trends, evidence-based practices, and strategies to optimise patient outcomes within the NHS. The conference will look at preoperative optimisation of patients’ fitness and wellbeing through exercise, nutrition and psychological support, integrating prehabilitation into the care pathway, the relationship between prehabilitation and sleep, as well as behaviour change, and also how to measure the outcomes of prehabilitation. Throughout the day, there will be interactive sessions, small breakout groups, and collaborative exercises, fostering a dynamic learning experience.

We are pleased to offer a 20% discount with code hcuk20boa This conference focuses on Prehabilitation – Principles and Practice and offers a comprehensive and practical guide to delivering an effective prehabilitation programme, ensuring patients are fit and optimised for surgery. Attendees will gain valuable insights into the latest trends, evidence-based practices, and strategies to optimise patient outcomes within the NHS. The conference will look at preoperative optimisation of patients’ fitness and wellbeing through exercise, nutrition and psychological support, integrating prehabilitation into the care pathway, the relationship between prehabilitation and sleep, as well as behaviour change, and also how to measure the outcomes of prehabilitation. Throughout the day, there will be interactive sessions, small breakout groups, and collaborative exercises, fostering a dynamic learning experience.

This conference focuses on falls prevention and management in older people with a focus on ensuring effective and resilient falls prevention activity. The conference will update delegates on the April 2025 NICE Guidance update: Falls: assessment and prevention in older people and people 50 and over at higher risk, the World Guidelines for Falls Prevention and Management in Older Adults and highlight best practice through case studies. Sessions throughout the day will focus on activity and falls, developing and effective falls prevention programme, understanding human factors in falls prevention, improving falls education and awareness, effective personalised multidisciplinary assessment including the new MASA tool, falls and mental health including delirium prevention and managing the psychological impact of falling, medication management and improving secondary prevention. The conference will also discuss key elements in the reduction of falls in your service including strength, balance and exercise promotion, managing underlying health issues, developing personalized falls prevention care plans, and frailty presenting as falls. The conference will also update delegates on national requirements for falls investigation and learning under the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF)

The Convenors for the 2025 BASK Revision Knee Instructional Course have put together a programme designed to fulfil all of the CPD requirements for surgeons performing revision knee surgery. This course will be aimed at all surgeons performing revision knee surgery, and will cover a number of core topics, as well as deep dives into specific topics relevant to revision knee. This year’s deep dives will be on Periprosthetic Fracture, and the Management of Bone Loss. We will maintain the successful format of small group sessions where topics can be discussed including clinical case discussions. There will also be a parallel AHP/Network session to give network coordinators, nurse specialists and the wider multidisciplinary teams opportunity to share good practice. Following the success of 2024 we will be repeating specific sessions for Early Years Revision Consultants and Fellows/Senior Trainees to discuss the challenges and opportunities being faced. This is an interactive meeting and attendance from all the multidisciplinary team is crucial. The meeting will be starting at 12:30pm on Monday 13th October with registration and a welcome lunch.

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This event will bring together experts, practitioners, and researchers from around the world to discuss the latest research and best practices in the treatment of clubfoot. Through a series of talks, panel discussions, and workshops, participants will gain insights into the latest advances in clubfoot management and connect with colleagues and peers in the field. By attending this conference, you will have the opportunity to contribute to the development of a community of practitioners dedicated to improving outcomes for patients with clubfoot. We are thrilled to announce the Royal College of Surgeons will be accrediting the conference this year offering CPD point to those in attendance. Manchester, UK

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Course Summary No more box ticking and number crunching. Life for you, as a trainer should be better and richer from August 2021. All the curriculum work over the last 3 years is coming to fruition. It will address concerns expressed by many trainers about the over refined structure of ISCP: of tick boxes and forms. Our trainees need to acquire professional judgement, insight, leadership, and the ability to work with others, alongside the operative skills required to be a safe surgeon. The new updated curriculum should help us do this more effectively. This half-day programme is designed to help Educational Supervisors make the necessary changes work for them and their trainees. Course structure We will use: A learning log distributed through email with feedback from the moderator and cohort colleagues, to achieve learning outcomes through a set of screencasts and activities you complete at your own pace.* Zoom for one 2-hour live session for teaching simulations with feedback, and discussions. The total amount of time required to complete the course will be around 9 hours. *Participants should complete the BOA TOES course within 6 weeks of the start date. Learning outcomes At the end of this programme, participants will be able to: Summarise changes to the T&O curriculum and how these will affect you Make the best use of assessment tools including the Multi Consultant Report Integrate the new Capabilities in Practice and Generic Professional Capabilities Plan how to conduct or contribute to a Multi Consultant Report (MCR) Make best use of their trainer portfolio Use assessment of reflective writing to maximise trainee progress The programme will be facilitated by Lisa Hadfield-Law. Over the last 20 years, Lisa has trained over 15,000 T&O surgeons, from 68 countries, to teach. She trained as a virtual teacher in 2016 and has run over 30 fully on line programmes.