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PLAN Annual Forum - Thursday 10 October 2024

The PLAN Team are excited to announce that we will be hosting our Annual Forum in October, which will mark 15 years of PLAN.

Date: Thursday 10 October 2024

Time: 10am  - 4pm

Location: Online Via Zoom

Fees: Free for PLAN members. £75 for non-members.

Booking: To register for the event please complete this short booking form.

Please click here to download the programme for the forum. 

TimeEvent
10amChair’s Welcome
10.10amPLAN Project Update
Karishma Talwar, PLAN Deputy Programme Manager
10.20amPsychopharmacology in Liaison Psychiatry
Dr Siobhan Gee, Consultant Pharmacist and Deputy Director of Pharmacy, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust 
10.50amElectro-Convulsive Therapy for Patients Under Psychiatric Liaison Services
Dr Raja Badrakalimuthu, Consultant Psychiatrist, Royal Surrey County Hospital Psychiatric Liaison Service
11.20amBreak
11.30amWorkshop 1: Waiting for a Psychiatric Bed in the General Hospital
Dr Susie Lingwood, Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist, Royal Bournemouth Hospital Liaison Psychiatry Service
12.15pmLunch
1pmPoster viewings:
Poster 1: Assessing smoking status of patients with mental illness seen by a liaison psychiatry service
Dr Deepti Desai, Consultant Psychiatrist and Dr Adaobi Okechukwu, Core Trainee in Liaison Psychiatry
1.20pmFrequent Attender Audit
Jonathan Haggerty, Nurse Consultant and Dr Suzey Breckon, Principal Clinical Psychologist, Sunderland Psychiatric Liaison Team
1.50pmWhat is the APEx approach?
Dr Mark Buchanan, Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Wirral University Teaching Hospital
2.20pmBreak
2.30pmWorkshop 2: Development of the Psychiatric Decisions Unit
Dr Raihan Talukdar, Talukdar, Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist, Tom Milner, Psychiatric Decisions Unit Manager, Claire Maguire, Psychiatric Decisions Unit Deputy Manager
3.10pmAdvanced Clinical Practitioners in Liaison Psychiatry: what does the role bring that others do not?
Rebecca Storey and Kara Hosegood, Advanced Clinical Practitioners, Dorchester County Hospital Liaison Psychiatry Service
3.40pmFinal questions and closing comments
4pmClose
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