RCP update on acute medical emergencies, Freeman Hospital: 30 Apr 2008

ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS
Northern Regional Office

ACUTE MEDICAL EMERGENCIES

30^th April 2008

Education Centre
Level 1, Freeman Hospital

09:30 Registration and Coffee

Morning session
Chairman: Dr Stephen Bourke, RCP Regional Advisor (Service)

10:00 Management of Patients with Drug Misuse: Dr Eilish Gilvarry, Newcastle upon Tyne
10:40 Pneumonia for Acute Physicians: Dr Wei Shen Lim, Nottingham University Hospital
11:20 Coffee
11:40 The Red Hot Joint: Dr Bridget Griffiths, Freeman Hospital
12:20 Acute Upper Gastro-intestinal Bleeding: Dr John Greenaway, James Cook University Hospital
13:00 Lunch

Afternoon session
Chairman: Dr Nick Linker, RCP Deputy Regional Advisor (Training)

13:45 Acute Medicine Admissions from Nursing Homes, Dr Terry Aspray, Sunderland Royal Hospital
14:30 Workforce Planning Across the Specialties, Professor Roy Pounder, Royal Free Hospital, London
15:20 Tea
15:40 When to call a Neurosurgeon: Mr Patrick Mitchell, Newcastle General Hospital
16:20 Pericardial Problems: Dr Jane Skinner, Royal Victoria Infirmary
17:00 Close

CME approved for 5 credits
All healthcare professionals are welcome to attend

To book your place:

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Hospital.......................................................

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Cheques should be made payable to ‘Royal College of Physicians, Northern’

Return to:

Lorraine Waugh
Royal College of Physicians
Northern Regional Office,
Freeman Hospital
Newcastle upon Tyne NE7 7DN