Event details
BHFNC 10th Annual Conference
23rd November 2010
East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham
?The cure for all ills is not to sit still? Raising the profile of physical activity in primary care
This conference will explore opportunities and strategies to successfully engage primary care practitioners in the promotion of physical activity.
£185 + VAT
£155 + VAT for voluntary sector organsations and full-time students
The conference will provide delegates with an excellent and exciting opportunity to:
- Engage in a ?Question Time? style debate on the opportunities for, and challenges of, integrating physical activity within the primary care agenda. This unique debate will be chaired by Dr Mike Knapton and will feature Dr William Bird, Professor Simon Capewell, Professor Mark Batt, Ms Mary Allison, and Professor Julia Hippisley-Cox.
- Listen to an inspiring keynote speech from Dr Darren Warburton, Director of the Cardiovascular Physiology and Rehabilitation Laboratory, University of British Colombia. This presentation will provide an insight into an innovative Canadian approach to physical activity prescription for chronic disease management.
- Consider how national initiatives such as Let?s Get Moving can be embedded within existing primary care services and effectively delivered in the current economic freeze.
Book your place online today at: www.equity-events.co.uk/bhfnc10 or telephone . We encourage you to book early to avoid disappointment as previous BHNC conferences have sold out up to 6 weeks prior to the event.
Conference Programme
9.00 Registration
9.30 Welcome and Introductions
9.35 ?Revealing the Coalition Government?s Public Health Plans?
Dr Alan Maryon-Davis
9.55 ?The evidence for promoting physical activity in primary care?
Dr William Bird, Strategic Health Advisor, Natural England
10.10 ?Competing priorities in primary care?
Professor Simon Capewell, School of Population, Community & Behavioural Sciences, University of Liverpool
10.25 ?Question Time? style panel debate: ?The opportunities for, and challenges of, integrating physical activity within primary care?
Chaired by Dr Mike Knapton, Associate Director of Prevention and Care, British Heart Foundation
Panel members:
Dr William Bird
Professor Simon Capewell
Professor Mark Batt, Consultant in Sport and Exercise Medicine, University of Nottingham
Ms Mary Allison, Director of Programme Design and Delivery, NHS Health Scotland
Professor Julia Hippisley-Cox, Professor of Clinical
Epidemiology and General Practice, University of Nottingham. Royal College
of General Practitioners (RCGP) Fellow
10.50 Refreshments
11.10 Workshops
12.25 Lunch
13.35 Workshops
14.50 Energiser with Hearty
15.00 Afternoon session to be chaired by Elaine McNish, Welsh Assembly Government
?International inspiration: A Canadian approach to physical
activity prescription for chronic disease management?
Dr Darren Warburton, Director of the Cardiovascular Physiology and
Rehabilitation Laboratory, University of British Colombia
15.40 ?The Welsh exercise referral trial: Implications for practice?
Dr Simon Murphy, Senior Research Fellow, Cardiff University
16.05 PLENARY: ?Top Tips to engage primary care?
Ms Mary Allison, Director of Programme Design and Delivery, NHS Health Scotland
16.15 Close of conference
For a flier with complete information about the day, see the following link:
www.bhfactive.org.uk/downloads/conference_flyer_2010.pdf