Inform delegates of changing practices, culture and opportunities within surgery in Wales. All our speakers will have an emphasis on sharing direct transferable learning that attendees can apply easily into their everyday surgical workplace.
The programme for this conference is as follows:
08.30 - Registration opens, visit Sponsors’ Stands, & QI Poster Viewing
09.10 - Introduction and Welcome (Mr Steven Backhouse, Host & ENT Consultant)
09.15 - Gamification of Training: A surgical ‘Escape Room’ (Dr Dafydd Pearce, Clinical Training Fellow, MPEC, Bridgend)
09.25 - SUSIM: Exploring Simulation Standards, Relevance & Opportunities for Safer Surgical Team Practice (Assoc. Prof Jo Davies, Head of Simulation, SUSIM)
10.05 - UK Army: Evolving an inclusive recruitment strategy for female and Generation Z future soldiers (Mrs Cath Possamai, Director Talent Acquisition, Amazon (Europe/Middle East/Africa))
10.35 - Sexual Misconduct in Surgery (Ms Clare McNaught, Consultant Colorectal Surgeon & Vice-President RCSEdinburgh)
10.55 - Comfort Break
11.10 - Hiding in Plain ‘Electronic’ Sight: NHSWales useful but under-used clinical IT Systems (Prof Rhidian Hurle, Consultant Urologist & Medical Director DHCW & Chief Clinical Information Officer Wales)
11.35 - Networked Surgical Research in Wales: The ‘One Wales’ approach making research easy / easier! (Prof Dean Harris, Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, Swansea and Dr Yvette Ellis, National Head of Research Delivery Operations, HCRW)
12.05 - Hillsborough, Jimmy Saville, East Kent: Signs to Recognise a Failing Organisation (Dr Bill Kirkup CBE, Independent Investigator UK)
12.45 - QI Poster Prize Awards (Dominique Bird, Deputy Director Improvement Cymru)
12.50 - Lunch / Visit Sponsor Stands
Additional Information: Submit QI poster abstracts before EXTENDED deadline 31st January 2024. 300 words limit for abstracts. Posters will be A3 Portrait orientation.
Please consider staying for the afternoon’s 13th Wales Medical & Dental Student Research Symposium.
Surgeon colleagues are also invited to register as afternoon Student Posters’ Judging Faculty.
Please contact outreach@rcsed.ac.uk with any queries.
