Association for Continence Advice Conference & Exhibition 2010
The ACA held their annual conference and exhibition for 2010 at the Harrogate International Centre in Harrogate on the 28th and 29th June.
Presentations from the event are available by clicking the speakers name below
Reflecting Back, Looking Forward, a Manifesto for Change: Speaker: Ray Addison, ACA Fellow (formerly of Mayday Healthcare NHS Trust)
Detection of UTIs:
Speaker: Professor James Malone-Lee, MD FRCP, Department of Medicine, Whittington Hospital, London
Interstitial Cystitis:
Speaker: Dr Jalesh Panicker, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London
Co-creating Health:
Speaker: Catherine Jenkins, Lead Diabetes Specialist Nurse, Whittington Hospital NHS Trust
Improving Standards in Urodynamic:
Speaker: Carmel Ramage, Consultant Urogynaecologist, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS FT
The NICE LUTS Guideline - It’s a Man Thing:
Speaker: Dr Julian Spinks, GP, Court View Surgery, Court View Surgery
Childhood Constipation – An Overview of NICE Guidelines 2010: Speaker: June Rogers MBE, Paediatric Continence Advisor, Team Director PromoCon
Progress in Treating Bowel Dysfunction:
Speaker: Christine Norton, Professor of Clinical Nursing & Innovation, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust & Bucks New University and Nurse Consultant (Bowel Control), St Mark’s Hospital Harrow
Gender Alignment: Speaker: Tim Terry, Consultant Urologist, UHL NHS Trust
Research Priorities in Incontinence; What We Need to Know and How Do We Find the Answers? Speaker: Professor Marcus Drake, Urologist, Bristol Urological Institute, Bristol
Cardiff and Vale University Health Boards Experience of the Men After Prostate Surgery (MAPS) Trial: Speaker: Ann Yates, Director of Continence Services, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
Nursing Times Winner - Implementing a Continence Prescription Review Service:
Speaker: Joanne Mangnall, Continence Advisor, NHS Rotherham Community Health Services
Dorothy Mandelstam Award Winner Session Sponsored by Bullen Healthcare Ltd - The Patient Perspective of ISC to Inform Nursing Practice. Karen Logan, OBE, Consultant Nurse – Presentation by Chris Shaw, Reader in Nursing Research, University of Glamorgan
Company sponsored symposium
Mediplus sponsored the symposium at this years conference. Delegates were treated to a presentation from James Urie, Sales & Marketing Director and Charles Hughes,UK Sales Support Manager. The focus of the symposium was the CT3000 for non-invasive bladder pressure studies and the Suprapubic Foley Catheter Introducing Set.
An Evidence Review of the CT3000 is available.
The ACA would like to thank Mediplus for their support.

