- October 8th & 9th
Hope Church, WinchesterThe PIER Conference is over for another year.. We had another fantastic programme covering many varied topics which appeal to all members of the paediatric MDT.
If you weren't able to make it (or weren't listening all the way through...!) please click through to the programme pages to review the topics and slides presented throughout the conference.
Travel Information
Hope Church is easy walking distance from Winchester Train Station.
There is a small public car park adjacent to the Church and a number of others including the North Walls, Tower Street and River Park all within a short walk.
The Chesil Street multi-story car park is slightly further, but still within a 10-12 minute walk. The cheapest option is the park and ride - details of which can be found here www.winchester.gov.uk/parking/parking-and-car-parks
For anyone cycling, bike racks are available close by.
- Buy your ticketsEvery ticket includes coffee, refreshments and lunch on both days of the conference
Early Bird pricing ends on 2nd September
If you are buying tickets for a group of more than 5 in one category (ie 5 x students, 5 x nurses/AHPs, 5 x junior doctors or 5 x consultants), enter the code GROUP24 for a discount on your tickets. Please ensure each ticket is assigned to a different person.
Day 1
0900 - 0915
WelcomeThe 9th PIER Conference starts here...0915 - 1030
Cleaner, Greener, SMARTer Asthma: The New Way Forward
Steph Harper, Lucy Everitt, Emma Ray, Gary Connett & Team
View the Presentation by clicking here...1030 - 1100
Submitted Poster Highlights
PIER Conference Team
Read more...A fast-paced session highlighting the highest scoring poster submissions.
If you would like your work to be included, send in an abstract by clicking on the tab to the left!
Coffee
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Lunch
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Tea
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End of day 1...
but please join us at the PAFTAs
Day 2
0900 - 0915
Welcome
PIER Conference TeamDay 2! Let's go...0915 - 1015
Allergy: Managing the Growing Problem
Cherry Alviani & Team
View the Presentation by clicking here...1015 - 1115
Submitted Abstracts
Multiple Presenters
View the Presentation by clicking here...
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Tea
1530 - 1630
Lifelab - Change the Beginning and you Change the Whole Story
Kath Woods-Townsend, LifeLab team and young people
Read more...Lifelab has years of experience (since 2008) empowering children and young people through science, to make positive lifestyle choices and has recently been named as a finalist in the national Health & Wellbeing Awards.
Children and young people make up a third of the UK population. Their health and wellbeing are top priorities for the UK government, and our scientific evidence shows that a healthy lifestyle at an early age is important for long-term health, captured by the phrase ‘Change the beginning and you change the whole story’. The trend of rising unhealthy behaviours and lifestyles for children and young people has been compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic. The LifeLab programmes have been developed to help young people discover the knowledge and skills they need to regain control of their lives and to devise their own solutions and resilience to current and future challenges.
With children and young people at the heart of everything we do, LifeLab has been developed to provide engaging experiences in school as part of the curriculum and outside of school in a variety of creative formats. These experiences empower children and young people to understand the science behind the health messages they see and hear and apply that knowledge to the choices they make for their own lives – for their health now, in the future and for their future families.
LifeLab is a unique research-based educational project created by the University of Southampton in collaboration with the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre and University Hospital Southampton.
This session will provide insight into the programme and tips for professionals working with young people as well as hearing from a number of young people themselves.1630 - 1650
Prizes
The PIER Conference Team
Read more...Awarding the prizes for Best Oral Presentation and Best Poster
End of day 2
- AbstractsSubmissions have now closed.
Authors have now been contacted by email with the results of the scoring.
We are still accepting poster submissions for display of your work. If you would like to submit your poster for display on our digital poster boards, please email it to [email protected]. Poster formatting guidelines are below.{title_0:text default="title 0"}{content_0:content}{title_0:text default="title 0"}{content_0:content}{title_0:text default="title 0"}{content_0:content}{title_0:text default="title 0"}{content_0:content} - Click to view the poster submissions for the conference this year. Thank you to all the authors.
- Speakers
Dr Chris Turner
Is this Rumination of Reflection? Workshop & Civility Matters in a Complex World (Day 1)
Chris is consultant in emergency medicine at University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire. He is interested in governance and highly performing teams, and this has led him on a journey from being blame and process focused to something completely different, Civility Saves Lives, a campaign that aims to raise awareness of the impact of behaviour on performance. This idea has gained momentum and traction across healthcare and beyond.
Dr Lindsay Cutler
Accessing Healthcare for the Neurodiverse - No Piece of Cake (Day 1)
Dr Lindsay Cutler is a Consultant Community Paediatrician working for Solent NHS trust. She works in Springwell special school for children with moderate to severe learning disability and is passionate about equality of healthcare for all children and their families.
Steph Harper
Cleaner, Greener, SMARTer Asthma: The New Way Forward (Day 1)
Steph is a Paediatric Respiratory/CF Nurse Specialist at Southampton University Hospitals Trust. Having qualified in 2010, she spent 11 years on an acute paediatric medical ward in Portsmouth. Steph has been involved in implementing change in practice with both ‘as required Salbutamol’ and promotion of MART in practice. She is dedicated to improving asthma outcomes for children and young people and encouraging others understand the importance of doing so.
Dr Katherine Lachlan
Genomics: Diagnosing Differently (Day 2)
Katherine is a consultant in Clinical Genetics at University Hospital Southampton. Katherine's clinical work focuses on the genetic diagnosis of congenital malformations, learning disability and disorders of sex development, and in the clinical interpretation of genetic test results. She is a member of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.
Kathryn Woods-Townsend
LifeLab Director
LifeLab - Change the Beginning and you Change the Whole Story (Day 2)
Kath has been the Programme Manager for LifeLab since 2009 leading on the development and delivery of the education programmes at all levels. Kath also sits on the LifeLab Board of Directors, providing leadership and direction to the LifeLab team. 
We were back with another PIER escape room this year! Teams of 8 tried to uncover the mystery surrounding the virus that was causing major disruption to rotas across all members of the MDT. They had to enter the staffroom and solve the puzzles to work out how to stop the infection... before it was too late! All our teams were successful in solving the mystery before their breaktime ran out. Well done to our fastest escapees!- Sponsors
We are very grateful to our sponsors of the conference this year. Please visit their stands in the poster and refreshment area to hear about their work and developments
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If you would be interested in sponsoring the PIER Conference 2024, please see our dedicated sponsor page here
