Programme

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SATURDAY 27 MARCH 2010

7.15-8.15

What's the Score and with Asthma Control and Management

presented by Shaun Holt and sponsored by

8.00

REGISTRATION 

8.30-8.55

Powhiri and Official Opening

8.55-9.00

Housekeeping

9.00-9.50

Key Note - Geoff Mitchell
Primary Palliative Care: Core Business of General Practice?

10.00-10.25

MORNING TEA AND EXHIBITION VIEWING

10.30-11.20

 

AMPA

Palliative Care

Youth

General

Practical Workshops

Specialist in orthopaedics
Injuries of the lower limb

Brendan Coleman

Palliative Care Partnership
Simon Allan

Interventions can make a difference
Jayne Lowry & The Youthline Team

Advancing Primary
Health Care
Nursing Practice
Hilary Graham-Smith
Jane Jeffcoat Rachel Hale

Using the Internet in Medical Practice Anne Wilson & Susan Foggin

Advanced Palliative Care Planning in the Community
Rod MacLeod & Rochelle Bastion

11.30-12.20

Specialist in Dermatology

Steve Helander

Advanced Care Planning for Children

Ross Drake

Caring for children and young people in the community

Karyn Bycroft

 

Youth Health from a Primary Care
Perspective

Maria Kekus

Ensuring Quality
Telephone Advice:
Clinical Governance at
Healthline
Ian St George

Knee Examination &
Shoulder Strapping
Chris Hanna

12.30-1.25

LUNCH AND EXHIBITION VIEWING  

 

AMPA

Paediatrics

Youth

Sports

Practical Workshops

1.30-2.20

Specialist in Cardiology

Malcolm Leggett

Is This Normal for a Child?

Nikki Turner & Marguerite Dalton

Entrust - engage - enact - enable - enrich

Gill Alcon

Drug Free Sport -

A Practical Guide

Graeme Steele

Suturing - The Basics

Murray Cox

2.30 - 3.20

Focus on Diabetes + Other Endocrinology - Urgent Presentations

Paul Drury

 

Additives and Child Behaviour: What is the

Evidence?

Debbie Fewtrell

How to Improve the Health of

Young People What can be Done

in General Practice

Simon Denny

Pacific SUDI (sudden unexpected death in infancy)

Teuila Percival

Suturing - Advanced

Murray Cox

3.30-3.55

AFTERNOON TEA AND EXHIBITION VIEWING     

4.00-4.50

Hot Topics in Primary Care
Health Professionals from the University of Auckland Department of General Practice and Accident & Medical Practitioners Association

5.00 - 5.45

Hyperbaric Medicine: more than treating the bends
Simon Mitchell

6.00 - 7.00

AMPA Annual General Meeting

6.00-8.30

COCKTAILS AND ENTERTAINMENT

 

SUNDAY 28 MARCH 2010

7.45-8.45

Breakfast Session - Generic Medicines - concerns, myths and smoothing the change

9.00-9.50

Key Note - Annie Topping
Role Substitution and Skill Mix in Primary Care Levers, Barriers and Challenges

10.00-10.30

MORNING TEA AND EXHIBITION VIEWING

10.30-11.20

 

AMPA

Dental Injuries

Sexual Health

Eyes and ears

Additional Sessions

Acute Gynaecology
Cindy Farquhar

Dental injuries in primary care

Graeme Ting

Thasvir Singh

Rosemary Kennedy

Health and Social Care Needs of
Lesbians and Bisexual Women
Annie Topping

Epidemiology, diagnosis and management of Glaucoma
Mark Donaldson

Interpreting lab results FAQs from GPs

Richard Lloydd
Lab Test

AMPA

Palliative Care

 

 

 

11.30-12.20

 

Specialst in secual health
Rick Franklin

Hot Topics in Palliative Care

Dealing with fear and anxiety in our patients and ourselves
Jayne Huggard

Who cares for whom?

Rod MacLeod

How people with chronic illness find meaning

Sue Jacobi

Mokopuna Ora He Kaupapa Motuhake

"Risk factors and key messages for Maori whanau and community"
Nicola McDonald

Communicating effectively across the lifespan - key contributions from speech language therpay and audiology

Suzanne Purdy

ACC Sponsored Workshop

Management of the shoulder injury/pain

Alastair Wilson

12.30-1.25

LUNCH AND EXHIBITION VIEWING

1.30-2.10

Plenary Session - Allison Mooney

Patience with Patients - How to Use the 4 Critical Keys of Influence Effectively

2.15-2.50

 

Identifying patients who have fallen through the cracks
Neil Hefford

FAQs from GPs on cervical cytology and HPV testing

Mee Ling Yeong Diagnostic Medlab

Sponsored session
NZ Guidelines Group
 
Suspected cancer guidelines:
key messages and progress
on implementation
Jim Vause and John Fraser
 

Sponsored session
Ministry of Health
 
Smoking cessation -
New health targets 2010
Haydon McRobbie

3.00-3.30

AFTERNOON TEA AND EXHIBITION VIEWING

 

Plenary

4.00

SYMPOSIUM CLOSING CEREMONY

Sponsors

ACC GSK Mundi Pharma Pharmac New Zealand Guidelines Group