Event Calendar

This important and timely conference will focus on improving care for hip fracture patients – learning from the September 2024 NHFD findings, and improving progress against the Key Performance Indicators and NICE quality standard for hip fracture. Through national updates and practical cases studies the conference will highlight best practice in hip fracture care, improving the care pathway, patient experience and outcomes. This conference will focus on improving assessment, minimised delays to theatre, improving the pathway from falls to theatre changing the role of the emergency department, ensuring hip fracture patients are prioritised for surgery, improve patient experience of hip fracture care, overcome contra indications, improving the anaesthetic and surgical pathway, and ensuring prompt mobilisation after surgery. There is a focus on improving practice against the Key Performance Indicators and using a Quality Improvement (QI) approach at each stage in the hip fracture pathway

We are delighted to announce that the 5th Birmingham Patellofemoral Masterclass returns with a fresh and exciting agenda. Traditionally the meeting runs every two years and is convened by Tarek Boutefnouchet and Tanweer Ashraf from The QE Hospital, Birmingham. If you are a knee surgeon, physiotherapist, extended scope practioner, trainee or fellow interested in patellofemoral conditions YOU DON’T NEED TO LOOK ANY FURTHER this meeting will give you everything you need to know about current practice and more. This meeting will focus on unravelling the multitude of options available and how to get it right first time as well as discussing the role of emerging technologies.

This conference will focus on developing your role as skills as a Prescribing Physiotherapist. Through national updates, expert sessions and practical case studies the conference will support you to develop or expand your role as a physiotherapy non medical prescriber, and support the development of effective non medical prescribing across your service.

This one-day training session will equip delegates with the skills to manage and investigate different types off falls. The day will be case study led and delegates will have the opportunity to ask questions pertaining to their own area of practice. Different types of learning responses will be explored, such as PSII, AAR, Swarm Huddles and thematic reviews.

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

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.

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)

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 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.