ACA Annual Conferences & Exhibitions

The ACA Annual Conference & Exhibition 2012 Annouced...

The 2012 conference will be held on Monday 14th - Tuesday 15th May 2012 in Brighton at the Hilton Brighton Metropole Hotel.

Registration available from the end of 2011 here ...

 

The ACA held their Annual Conference & Exhibition in Harrogate on 9-10 May 2011

      

The main Conference speaker's presentations are available on the members' section of the website

 

Exploring Bladder & Bowel Care and the Bowel Workshop attracted 160 delegates. Fitwise will be contacting delegates soon to evaluate the sessions.

 

The workshop speaker presentations are available below:

• Dr Doreen McClurg: Abdominal Massage for the Relief of Constipation
• Debbie Yarde: Membership of the ACA
• Gaye Kyle: Medications & Bowel Care
• Julie Vickerman: The Importance of Functional Assessment
• Sue Foxley: Urinalysis
• Wendy Ness: Irritable Bowel Syndrome; How much do you know?

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

Free paper- The Changing Face of Education for Digital Rectal Examination (DRE) and Manual Removal of Faeces (MEF): Ann Yates, Director of Continence Services, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board

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.