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DR TIM BOWLING Honorary Chairman


Dr Tim Bowling, Honorary Chairman, invites you to the Digestive Disorders Federation Conference in Liverpool in June 2012.


One of the challenges that we all face is furthering our professional development in the face of limited resources. While our Trusts wish to


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dvancing Clinical Nutrition Registered Charity 1023927


BAPEN


Advancing Clinical Nutrition Registered Charity 1023927


British Association for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition


BAPEN is a Registered Charity No: 1023927


A multi-professional association and registered charity established in 1992. Its membership is drawn from doctors, dietitians, nutritionists, nurses, patients, pharmacists, and from the health policy, industry, public health and research sectors.


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• Enhance understanding and management of malnutrition.


• Establish a clinical governance framework to underpin the nutrition management of all patients.


• Enhance knowledge and skills in clinical nutrition through education and training.


• Communicate the benefits of clinical and cost-effective optimal nutritional care to all healthcare professionals, policy makers and the public.


• Fund a multi-professional research programme to enhance understanding of malnutrition and its treatment.


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have employees at the top of their game, it can be difficult for Trusts to assist us to improve our skill-set. This is particularly the case in the current difficult economic climate. It can be easier for us to undertake e-learning, and this can be very effective; indeed BAPEN has its own e-learning modules. However, CPD is much more than acquiring knowledge sitting alone at a computer terminal. We are all in vocational occupations. Much of what we do and learn is experiential, i.e. learned and improved by practical experiences. While much can be learnt in-house (especially for more junior colleagues), there is a great deal that cannot. Some of this can be delivered in a conference setting, with lectures and case discussions with expert panels, etc., but much can also be acquired from talking to colleagues and networking with new ones. Such aspects of CPD can only be acquired off-site, and the value of doing so cannot, in my view, be over-stated. Attending conferences though requires study leave time (or sacrificing annual leave), negotiating with colleagues and bosses to be allowed away and finance for registration, travel and accommodation. As a result we are all very selective about which meetings we will honour with our presence. This is why I want to tell you about a very important meeting coming up in June that should deliver a great deal. It is the inaugural Digestive Disorders Federation (DDF) Conference in Liverpool from 17th-20th June. This is the combined conferences of BAPEN, the British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG), the British Association for the Study of the Liver (BASL) and the Association of Upper GI Surgeons (AUGIS). Not only are the individual groups holding their own conferences, but there will be many shared symposia on topics on which common ground is shared. For example, intestinal failure (BAPEN and BSG); fibre and food intolerances (BAPEN and BSG); perioperative nutritional support (BAPEN and AUGIS) and nutrition in liver disease (BAPEN and BASL) – to name just a few.


It is expected that there will be 3000-4000 delegates and the meeting will attract a large international contingent. The advantage of many different symposia running together is that BAPEN sessions should attract an audience that would not normally come to BAPEN meetings. Likewise, those attending primarily because of BAPEN’s involvement, will be able to sample areas relevant to the other stakeholder groups. Another great advantage of a high profile event is the calibre of the speakers, presentations and original abstracts, which I can assure you will be very high indeed. On top of the intellectual activities there will be, as always, plenty of opportunities to let your hair down and enjoy the social life of DDF and of Liverpool with colleagues and friends, both old and new. “What’s the catch? ” I hear you ask. Actually there genuinely isn’t one. The delegate costs, if you are a member of one of the four stakeholder groups, are very low indeed. If you are a dietitian, nurse, pharmacist or other allied health professional and are a BAPEN member, the daily rate is £55 instead of £220 if you are not a member, or £190 for the full conference versus £500 (doctors pay a bit more). If you are a patient, it is only £20 per day. The reason delegate costs have been able to be kept low (and a lot less than our normal conferences) is because of the anticipated number of attendees driving down overheads and running costs per head. So, I would like to encourage you all to consider this. DDF will be a very big and a very important meeting, with a very full and varied programme, which I challenge anyone not to be able to find something of value. If you are not already a member of BAPEN, i.e. you are reading this over the shoulder of someone who is, please join (www.bapen.org.uk/join.html) and get a dramatically reduced registration (www.ddf2012.org.uk). This is one of those few situations nowadays that is a “win, win”.


See you in Liverpool. 1 BAPEN In Touch No.64 March 2012


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