This is a recording of a live conference that took place on 15 October 2024. This recording will be available to view until 1 August 2025.
This one day conference aims to refresh and renew information on common infectious diseases that primary care clinicians are likely to encounter over the 2024/25 winter period. Dr David M. Smith and a selection of leading expert speakers, who are closely associated with primary care, focus on essential information, latest evidence, practical tips, and take-home messages to help improve practice and patient outcomes around infectious diseases.
The winter months are increasingly difficult for primary care teams; this conference aims to empower GPs to increase their knowledge about the infectious diseases patients are most likely present with this winter. Through increasing clinical knowledge, we aim to improve the confidence and resilience of GPs heading into the winter period.
Topics include:
1. What’s on the horizon this winter
2. Measles and mpox
3. Infectious gastroenteritis diseases
4. Hints/tips on tackling common respiratory conditions
5. Pragmatic issues on increasing immunisation rates
6. How best to manage scabies
Learning objectives:
- Update knowledge as to any anticipated acute rises in circulating pathogens over the winter
- Refresh knowledge of management of frequently seen conditions, to enable more effective triaging to take place.
- Develop techniques to increase vaccination rates.
Conference Chair
Dr David M. Smith, BSc (hons) MSc (SHU et OU) MBBS PGDip (HPE) MPH MRCGP
Conference Speakers:
Dr Simon Padfield, MBCHB MPH FFPH
Dr Toni Hazell, GP at Somerset Gardens Family Healthcare Centre, RCGP deputy medical director for eLearning
Liz Grogan, Deputy Director of IPC a Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust
Dr Amanda Henry, Public Health Principal
Dr George Moncrieff, GP with Extended Role in Dermatology & Primary Care Advisor to the National Eczema Society
