Programme
Acute medicine
25 February 2015
Royal College of Physicians, 11 St Andrews Place, Regent’s Park, London NW1 4LE
Programme organiser: Dr Chris Roseveare, Southampton University Hospitals Trust
09.30
Registration and coffee
09.55
Welcome and opening remarks
Professor Jane Dacre, president, Royal College of Physicians
Session 1: What’s hot in haematology and oncology?
Chair:
10.00
Oncological emergencies
Dr Thomas Newsom-Davis, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital
10.30
Haematological emergencies
Dr Chris Tiplady, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
11.00
Coffee
Session 2: Psychiatry and psychology
Chair:
11.20
Speaker – delirium and dementia on the AMU
Professor Rowan Harwood, University of Nottingham
11.50
Speaker – making best use of a liaison psychiatrist
Dr Amrit Sachar, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
12.20
Medically unexplained neurological symptoms on the AMU
Dr Mark Edwards, University College Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
12.50
Lunch
Session 3: Common challenges on the AMU
Chair: Dr Chris Roseveare
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13.50
Blood and guts
Dr Harriet Gordon, Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
14.20
Acute renal emergencies
Dr John Firth, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
14.50
A time and a place - difficult conversations on the AMU
Dr Elin Roddy, The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals NHS Trust
15.20
Tea
Session 4: Endocrine errors and how to avoid them
Chair:
15.40
Diabetes care in hospitals – what’s all the fuss about?
Dr Partha Kar, Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust
16.10
Adrenal crises and catastrophes
Professor Jeremy Tomlinson, University of Oxford
16.40
Acute care for an acute problem - improving patient outcomes across the social
gradient
Dr Pippa Medcalf, RCP Lead for Health Inequalities and Dr Matilda Allen, Institute of
Health Equity
17.00
Close of conference

Donald Pliner - Granger Owings