CPD Hot Topic Day: Ophthalmology

This event is planned because respondents to the Nottinghamshire Alliance Training Hub (NATH) Primary Care Training Needs Analysis (TNA) 2024/25 suggested the topic as a local training need.

• A comprehensive afternoon of teaching and your one stop shop to “refresh” your knowledge and stay up to date!

Join us for an insightful training session tailored to enhance the ophthalmological knowledge and skills of primary care professionals. This comprehensive training will cover various aspects crucial for improving the approach to ophthalmological care in primary settings.

This training offers a valuable opportunity for primary care workers to expand their ophthalmological knowledge, refine their diagnostic skills, and ultimately enhance patient care within their communities. Don't miss this chance to strengthen your ophthalmology expertise and make a positive impact on patient health outcomes. Register now to secure your spot!

• This event is for consulting clinicians in Primary Care such as GPs, ANPs, ACPs.

1300-1400 Registration and lunch

14:00-14:10 Welcome, house keeping

1410-15:00 Managing red eye in the community - Dr Olyvia Poyser

1500-1540 Acute visual loss and other ocular emergencies- Dr Alexander Moore

15:40-15:50 Coffee Break

15:50-1700 Small group teaching – direct ophthalmoscopy and consultant ophthalmologist Q&A

Please bring your own ophthalmoscopes.

We’ve created a dedicated Events FAQ webpage to help answer common queries about our events. If you can’t find the answer you’re seeking on our website, please email us at [email protected] and a member of the Events Team will help (and potentially add your query to the FAQs page!).

• 3rd October at 23.30
• Please register with your nhs.net email where possible. If the event is oversubscribed, priority may be given to those who have registered with NHS addresses.
• You will receive a certificate for your attendance. Please allow two weeks for this to be delivered to your inbox. We would advise checking your junk mail before contacting NATH for your certificate at [email protected]

If you cancel with more than 5 working days' notice, there will be no charge. If you cancel within 5 working days and we cannot fill the space, then you/your organisation will still be charged. If you do not attend then you/your organisation will be charged.

If you are leaving your organisation or you have a member of staff due to leave and you/they are booked onto a chargeable course with us, it is the organisations responsibility to inform NATH of this. This is to ensure that you/they are removed from any chargeable course with more than 5 working days before the event date and therefore will not incur any costs. If you/they are removed within 5 working days of the chargeable course then the cost of the place will be chargeable to the organisation.

This promotional meeting has been arranged with and is funded by several sponsors and there will be exhibition stands at the venue on the day of the event.

In signing up for this event we will share your name with the representatives - for the purposes of sharing details to attend the event and arranging food if provided.

Please note that, under the law and the ABPI Code of Practice, organisations may only provide hospitality and/or promote its medicines to members of the healthcare professions and other relevant decision makers.

This event is also restricted to residents of the UK.

The organisations have provided and paid for the venue and refreshments/meal (if provided) NATH receives no financial remuneration or incentive for this event. The content of this meeting is provided by the speaker and NATH accepts no responsibility for its content.

There will be a photographer present at the event, should you not wish to be photographed please tick the opt out box on the booking page.

Those who do NOT want to be photographed are responsible for notifying the camera operator of their opt-out status.

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