Professional Development Conferences 2025

TUESDAY 7^th OCTOBER 2025
VIRTUAL, Online

A Joint British Association of Day Surgery & HCUK Virtual Conference

Elective recovery still remains a significant focus of the NHS. Although progress has been made on long waits, waiting list numbers remain at record highs and in response The Elective Recovery Taskforce has been set up to help tackle this further. It is clear we must work differently to respond to these unprecedented waits and Day Case surgery offers us a way to help increase efficiencies and make an impact on these waiting times.

Join us to see how units across the UK have been leading the journey to successful Day case arthroplasty. It has been proven to be safe, achievable and has been replicated across several trusts. Learn how to embark on your day case journey and also see how Elective hubs can increase day case numbers further. You will also see how digital technology can aid this and move us towards a more virtual way of working.

For further information and to book your place visit

https://www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/virtual-online-courses/day-case-major-knee-surgery  or click on the title above or email kerry@hc-uk.org.uk

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FRIDAY 10^th OCTOBER 2025
VIRTUAL, Online

This conference provides a practical approach to preventing hospital acquired deconditioning in older adult, and moving beyond this to ensuring your patients are as active as possible and enabling reconditioning. It is widely recognised that hospital acquired deconditioning is a major issue in hospitals leading to functional decline, falls, readmissions, pressures on social care support and increase mortality. The conference will use case studies of best practice to support you to optimise safe activity for older people your service, and prevent both physical and cognitive deconditioning.  

For further information and to book your place visit

https://www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/virtual-online-courses/preventing-hospital-acquired-deconditioning or click on the title above or email aman@hc-uk.org.uk

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THURSDAY 30th OCTOBER 2025
VIRTUAL, Online

A Joint British Association of Day Surgery & HCUK Virtual Conference

The British Association of Day Surgery are pleased to announce this virtual conference focusing on Day Case Total Hip Replacements

The number of patients waiting for orthopaedic surgery remains at record levels, more than 850,000 in January 2025 following the huge disruption caused by Covid-19 and the industrial action with the NHS.

In response to the Governments Elective Recovery Plan and Get It Right First Time (GIRFT) programme, it is clear we must work differently to reduce variation and respond to these unprecedented waits. With continued pressure on in-patient beds, Day Case Total Hip Replacement Surgery presents an ideal opportunity to explore and expand the possibilities to increase day surgery activity.

https://www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/virtual-online-courses/day-case-total-hip-replacement click on the title above or email kerry@hc-uk.org.uk

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FRIDAY 5^th DECEMBER 2025
VIRTUAL, Online

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 aft er 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.

https://www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/virtual-online-courses/hip-fracture-summit or click on the title above or email kerry@hc-uk.org.uk

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FRIDAY 12^th DECEMBER 2025
44 HALLAM STREET, LONDON OR VIRTUAL, Online

This conference will provide a step by step guide to implementing the multiple interventions that have been proven to reduce falls in your service. The conference will reflect on the April 2025 NICE Guideline update on Falls: assessment and prevention in older people and people 50 and over at higher risk,  and the recommendations from last years National Audit of Inpatient Falls addressing how we can ensure patients are as active as possible rather than reducing activity to reduce falls which leads to deconditioning. The event will include practical advice on implementing Multifactorial Assessment to Optimise Safe Activity (MASA) which has been developed by the Royal College of Physicians and recommended for use by the 2024 National Audit of Inpatient Falls (NAIF), and provide advice on immediate post falls management. The conference will also update delegate on the implications of the Patient Safety Incident Response framework (PSIRF) for falls investigation.

https://www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/conferences-masterclasses/inpatient-falls-prevention or click on the title above or email aman@hc-uk.org.uk

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