SMTN Conferences

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South East AHP Quality Improvement Lunch ‘n’ Learn, Wednesday 25 of June, 12:30-13:30

What you’ll gain from attending:

  • Confidence in using QI tools – Learn how to apply practical tools in real healthcare settings.
  • Insight into AHPs using QI to understand and improve ‘sticky’ problems.
  • Real-world inspiration – Hear lessons learned from a successful project and how you can apply them in your own context.
  • Understand the regional impact of QI – Explore how QI initiatives are driving change and improving patient outcomes in the South East region.

 

This webinar is aimed at:

  • AHPs who are interested in QI
  • AHP support workers who are interested in QI
  • AHP professional leads
  • Chief AHPs / AHP leads
  • AHPs leading QI / working within QI roles

 

Please register by visiting the Tools in Action: Real-World QI for AHPs webpages to receive the meeting invite for MS Teams, and we look forward to seeing you there.

 

If you have any questions, please get in contact with Jo Kitchen (network facilitator) by email jo.kitchen@nhs.net or any of the core team.

BEST (British Elderly Silver Trauma) Course, Friday 27 June 2025

Venue – Southmead Hospital

Elderly trauma is the leading cause of Major Trauma in the UK. It is often stealth trauma and presents in all forms to multiple specialties.

The course will teach you an holistic, multispecialty approach to elderly trauma through:

  • Experienced Speakers
  • Multidisciplinary faculty
  • Small group sim
  • Open group discussion 

To register your interest in the course please email Frances.Verey@nbt.nhs.uk or email elizabeth.martin2@uhbw.nhs.uk

Trauma Team Leader (TTL) Virtual Day, Monday 7 July 2025

Join us for a hybrid update day for all things TTL and Major trauma.

Registration form for Trauma Team Leader Virtual Day - Sign up link or Seminar Room 17 

  • Updates on TBI – Mr Adam Williams Neurosurgical lead for NBT.
  • Collars in the elderly trauma patients – Dr Frances Rickard
  • SDH  – new developments in treatment – Dr Frances Rickard 
  • Blunt cerebrovascular injury – Dr Nick Blundell 
  • Lessons from a year of trauma cases.

Qs frances.verey@nbt.nhs.uk or MTTraining@nbt.nhs.uk

Spinal Cord Injury Study Days from July 2025

Free study day for community staff and care providers. Designed to build knowledge to support the management of individuals with a Spinal Cord injury in the community.

Dates:

  • 2 July  – Swindon,
  • 9 September – Gloucestershire
  • 23 October – Taunton,
  • 17 November – Bristol

What To Expect?

Autonomic dysreflexia, bowel and bladder management, skin care, therapeutic approaches and much more!

Free parking, free lunch, tea and coffee. Certificate for CPD hours.

For more information email scistudydayssevern@nbt.nhs.uk

Thames Valley & Wessex Adult Critical Care Course, September 2025

For more information and a course overview visit the course page website at South ACC Networks | TVW Network Adult Critical Care Course

Contact information - Mary.meeks@nhs.net

TBI Course, Thursday 11 September 2025

Location - Clinical Sciences Building, University Hospital Coventry

Cost - £100, lunch and refreshments included

Course is exploring acute management and some of the common complications. It is aimed at nurses and AHPs.

Contact is neurosciencestherapy.trainingandeducation@uhcw.nhs.uk or call 02476 965 130 for further information and help with sign up.

Dr Ankur Gupta-Wright - General Internal Medicine

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GMC number: 6163885

Year & location of first qualification: 2007 Imperial College London

Specialty: Infectious Diseases & General Internal Medicine

Clinical interests: Tuberculosis, HIV, Tropical Medicine

Secretary: Denise Bennett/Lynne Brown

Secretary phone number: 0117 4146479

Dr Ankur Gupta-Wright is a consultant in Infectious Diseases and General Internal Medicine, actively involved in patient care, teaching and research. Dr Ankur Gupta-Wright undertook clinical and academic training in Leicester, Singapore and London, and have worked in many settings including low and middle-income countries. Dr Ankur Gupta-Wright's clinical interest are management of tuberculosis (TB), including drug-resistant TB, HIV, HIV and TB co-infection, tropical medicine and general infectious diseases. Dr Ankur Gupta-Wright's research interests are in how we can use point of care diagnostics to improve clinical outcomes in patients with suspected infections. Dr Ankur Gupta-Wright undertook a PhD in urine-based diagnostics for TB. Dr Ankur Gupta-Wright has Diplomas in Tropical Medicine & Hygiene, HIV medicine and Medical Leadership. Dr Ankur Gupta-Wright is a fellow of Advance HE and hold a Post Graduate Certificate in Learning & Teaching.

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Dr Jillian Davis - Neuropathology

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GMC number: 6166020

Year & location of first qualification: Edinburgh 2008

Specialty: Neuropathology

Secretary: Allison Finnie and Layla Nasrawi

Secretary phone number: 0117 414 2402/0117 414 2403

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FRCPath (Neuropathology)

Dr Jillian Davis is a Consultant Neuropathologist at North Bristol NHS Trust, Dr Jillian Davis completed Neuropathology training in the East Midlands, having started via the Histopathology route.  Before that Dr Jillian Davis was a Medical Oncology SPR and had completed an Academic Clinical Fellowship in oncology.  Dr Jillian Davis interest in Neuropathology started when Dr Jillian Davis did a research placement in medulloblastoma tumours. 

Dr Jillian Davis main interests are autopsy pathology and teaching.  Dr Jillian Davis is keen to help deliver emerging digital and molecular technologies into cancer care in the South West.
 

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Dr James Maurice - Gastroenterology

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GMC number: 7041231

Year & location of first qualification: MBChB 2009 Edinburgh

Specialty: Gastroenterology

Clinical interests: Hepatology

Secretary: Jana Mickova

Secretary phone number: 0117 414 6499

Dr James Maurice graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 2009 and completed gastroenterology and hepatology training in London. During out-of-programme years, Dr James Maurice was awarded a PhD investigating NAFLD in people living with HIV at Imperial College, followed by a 6 month senior clinical fellow post at the Royal Free. Dr James Maurice then completed the advanced hepatology training programme at King’s College and St Mary’s Hospitals. 

Dr James Maurice was appointed to the position of consultant in gastroenterology and hepatology at North Bristol in September 2022.

Dr James Maurice's professional memberships include RCP, BASL, EASL and the BSG.
 

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