Ebola and other pandemics, obesity management and sexually transmitted disease resistance. These are some of the hot topics to be covered at this year’s Rural Primary Care conference to be held near Newtown.
Organised by Montgomeryshire Medical Society (MMS) for GPs, trainee doctors, practice nurses and managers, the annual conference will also pose the challenging question: Can or should GPs be asked to deliver an 8am to 8pm service seven days a week?
That controversial question will be debated by delegates on the eve the conference, to be held at Gregynog Hall, Tregynon, near Newtown, on September 29.
Leading the debate will be conference stalwart Dr Peter Holden, a Matlock GP and special adviser to the BMA General Practitioners Committee on premises and rural matters.
Other topics to be covered by speakers at the three-day event include the diagnosis and management of allergies and nose and sinus diseases, radiology and spirometry in primary care, managing rural trauma, integrating endocardiogram and heart failure services in the community, end of life care planning, minor surgery, diabetes, the hip joint and familial hypercholesterolaemia.
MMS was formed by a group of GPs to provide their own brand of rural postgraduate education in the 1980s. Previously known as the Rural Doctors Conference, the first one was held in 1990 and it has continued to evolve and develop to meet the educational needs of GPs and, more recently, their primary health care colleagues.
Because MMS considers the event to be such a valuable learning experience, trainee doctors are able to attend at a reduced rate.
For more information and to book a place at the conference contact organiser Ann Whale at email: ann.whale@wales.nhs.uk or telephone 07815 504764.