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CONFERENCE 2015
8th and 9th May 2015
Bridging Practice in Respiratory Care
Stormont Hotel, Belfast
CONFERENCE pROgRammE & REgistRatiON FORm
ARNS CONFERENCE 2015
Friday 8 May
08.45
Registration and Exhibition
Coffee and bacon rolls available on arrival
09.30
Chair’s Introduction and Welcome
Rebecca Sherrington, Respiratory Nurse Consultant,
Guernsey
Opening Address
Jim Wells, ML, Northern Ireland Minister for Health,
Social Services and Public Safety
10.00
A Perspective on Specialist Nursing
Charlotte McArdle, Chief Nursing Officer, Northern Ireland
10.45 - 11.30
Asthma Patient Passport - The patients’ voice
Karen Newell, Respiratory CNS, St Thomas’ Hospital,
London. Winner Nursing Times Respiratory Award 2014
11.30
Coffee and poster view and Exhibition
12.00 - 12.45
Nurse Revalidation and the new Code of
Conduct - what does it mean for
specialist nurses
Jackie Smith - Chief Executive Officer,
Nursing & Midwifery Council
12.45 - 13.45
Lunch and poster viewing and exhibition
13.45
Breakout session
• Models of Service Provision in ILD:
The Starting Point
Anne-Marie Russell, ILD Specialist Nurse,
NIHR Clinical Research Fellow in Nursing &
Independent Advanced Practitioner & Steven Wibberley,
Director of Operations & Innovation, British Lung Foundation
• Asthma in Secondary Care
Dr Jackie Gamble, Sister - Chest Clinic,
Belfast City Hospital
• Oxygen: Various situations, many settings
The use of acute, long term and ambulatory
oxygen therapy
Anne-Marie Marley, Respiratory Nurse Consultant,
Belfast Health & Social Care Trust
Poster Abstract due by 1st April 2015 - further information can be
found on the ARNS website www.arns.co.uk
Bridging Practice in Respiratory Care
14.30
Breakout sessions
• ILD Pathways of Care: Moving Forward Anne-Marie Russell, NIHR Clinical Research Fellow
in Nursing & Independent Advanced Practitioner &
Steven Wibberley, Director of Operations &
Innovation, British Lung Foundation
• Progress against the revised Asthma
Standards in the Respiratory Service
Framework in Northern Ireland
Joan O’Hagan, Director, Asthma UK, Northern Ireland
• Oxygen: Various situations, many settings
The use of acute, long term and ambulatory
oxygen therapy
Anne-Marie Marley, Respiratory Nurse Consultant,
Belfast Health & Social Care Trust
15.15 Tea
Exhibition and poster viewing
15.45 - 16.30
Breakout sessions
• ILD Transitions: Towards end of life
Anne-Marie Russell, NIHR Clinical Research Fellow
in Nursing & Independent Advanced Practitioner &
Steven Wibberley, Director of Operations &
Innovation, British Lung Foundation
• Asthma in Primary Care Deirdre Siddaway, Nurse Practitioner, Suffolk
• Oxygen: Various situations, many settings
The use of acute, long term and ambulatory
oxygen therapy
Anne-Marie Marley, Respiratory Nurse Consultant,
Belfast Health & Social Care Trust
16.30 - 16.45
ARNS Annual General Meeting
19.00
Sponsored symposium Boehringer-Ingelheim
The growing toolbox for the management of COPD
19.45
Conference Dinner and Presentation of
ARNS Award by Monica Fletcher, OBE,
CEO Education for Health
Saturday 9 May
07.30
Breakfast
08.00
Sponsored symposium
Choice of 2 symposia
a) Astrazeneca - Optimal bronchodilation with optimal
device selection leads to optimal outcomes Christine Fahrenbach, Respiratory Nurse Specialist,
Portsmouth. Professor Dave Singh, Professor of Clinical
Pharmacology and Respiratory Medicine, Manchester.
Joanne Riley, Respiratory Specialist Nurse Team Leader,
Oxford
b) Pari Medical - The use of nebulised antibiotics
in non-CF bronchiectasis - Dr Chris Johnson - Consultant,
Cambridge Centre for Lung Infection
09.00
Vice Chair’s Introduction and
poster prize giving
Matthew Hodson, Nurse Consultant,
Homerton Hospital, London
09.30
Homelessness and respiratory care finding the hard to reach patients
Dr Alistair Story, Nurse Consultant, UCL London
10.15
Cystic Fibrosis - The Patient Experience
11.00
Coffee
11.30
E-cigarettes - Where are we now?
12.00
Panel Discussion - Chair: Matthew Hodson
How is integration closing the gap between
primary and secondary care?
Dr Jacqueline Rendall, Consultant Respiratory Physician,
Belfast City Hospital
Wendy Preston, Nurse Consultant, Warwickshire
Monica Fletcher, OBE - CEO, Education for Health
Joan O’Hagan, Director, Asthma UK, Northern Ireland
Katy Beckford, Respiratory Team Leader,
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Trust
Anne-Marie Marley, Respiratory Nurse Consultant,
Belfast Health & Social Care Trust
12.45
13.30
Coming clean; a history of washing powder
Professor Paul Cullinan, Professor in Occupational
and Environmental Respiratory Disease: National
Heart and Lung Institute Imperial College London
Close and lunch
Poster Abstract due by 1st April 2015 - further information can be
found on the ARNS website www.arns.co.uk
ARNS Annual Conference Registration Form
One Form per person
Early bird shared occupancy
Delegate Details
Full Name
Job Description
Place of Work
Address for Correspondence
Postcode
Email
Mobile
Special Dietary Requirement
Conference Registration Fees
Members Rates:
£270.00 until 14 February (early bird)
Special early bird share twin room, shared occupancy bedroom rate
= £245 per person. Those wishing to share a twin room should
submit their forms together and indicate on the forms they wish to
share a bedroom
£300.00 until 4 April
£360.00 until 1 May
Non Members Rates:
£310.00 until 4 April
£380.00 until 1 May
£390.00 until 8 May
Rate includes 2 day conference ticket, bacon sandwich on arrival
bed and breakfast on Friday 8th May in single occupancy
accommodation, conference dinner and dance on Friday 8th May,
lunch, tea and coffee on both days
Day Rates Available:
Members: £180.00 Non-Members: £200.00 Friday 8 May
Members: £160.00 Non-Members: £190.00 Saturday 9 May
Payment
Please make cheques payable to “ARNS”
• No places can be secured for the conference unless the application is accompanied by the
appropriate registration fee.
• Invoices will only be issued upon receipt of your Trust’s Purchase Order number but places
cannot be guaranteed until invoices have been paid. Please provide purchase order details.
• Upon arrival at the conference, if payment has not been received from any delegate or her/his
Trust, then the delegate will be expected to pay the registration fee in full and then claim this back.
Cancellations
Standard 25% cancellation charge applies if cancelled up to six weeks prior to the event.
100% cancellation fee if cancelled within 6 weeks of the event.
Please also complete the form overleaf indicating your
preference for the breakout sessions
Please tick below your preferences for the breakout sessions
Session 1
m Models of Service Provision in ILD: The Starting Point
m Asthma in Secondary Care
m Oxygen
Session 2
m ILD Pathways of Care: Moving Forward
m Progress against the revised Asthma Standards in the
m
Respiratory Service Framework in Northern Ireland
Oxygen
Session 3
m ILD Transitions: Towards end of life
m Asthma in Primary Care
m Oxygen
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Bridging Practice in Respiratory Care