Birmingham Conference Programme

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Conference Programme

Best Practice Birmingham & Respiratory Professional Care Conference

Day one of the Best Practice Birmingham and Respiratory Professional Care 2026 conference programme is now available below - be sure to check back here, as the day two programme will be announced soon.

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07 Oct 2026
  1. Neighbourhood Delivery Theatre
    • Leadership & service delivery
    Neighbourhood Delivery Theatre
    • Leadership & service delivery
    Neighbourhood Delivery Theatre
    • Leadership & service delivery
    Neighbourhood Delivery Theatre
    This session covers the work of the NHSE North West Regional neighbourhood development programme covering 3 ICBs and the projects of 20 single neighbourhoods. These projects focus on actionable insigh ...
    • Leadership & service delivery
    Neighbourhood Delivery Theatre
    Future of regulation Keynote
    Speakers coming soon
    • Leadership & service delivery
    Neighbourhood Delivery Theatre
    • Leadership & service delivery
    Neighbourhood Delivery Theatre
  2. Neighbourhood Delivery Theatre
08 Oct 2026
  1. Neighbourhood Delivery Theatre
  2. Neighbourhood Delivery Theatre
    Speakers coming soon
    • Leadership & service delivery
    Neighbourhood Delivery Theatre
    As care continues to shift from hospitals into community and neighbourhood settings, primary care teams are increasingly being asked to manage greater clinical complexity, rising demand and expanded s ...
    • Leadership & service delivery
    Neighbourhood Delivery Theatre
    Speakers coming soon
    • Leadership & service delivery
    Neighbourhood Delivery Theatre
    Four senior nurse leaders come together for a focused discussion on the pivotal role of nursing in shaping and sustaining neighbourhood care. Drawing on experience across workforce strategy, education ...
    • Leadership & service delivery
    Neighbourhood Delivery Theatre
    Following the introduction of Pharmacy First and wider pharmacy-led services, many practices are now exploring how to better integrate community pharmacy into day-to-day primary care delivery.   ...
  3. Neighbourhood Delivery Theatre
07 Oct 2026
  1. Clinical Theatre 1
    Chair's opening remarks to showcase what will be presented at GP clinical Theatre one.To gain an overview of what is being presented .
    • Clinical updates
    Clinical Theatre 1
    • Clinical updates
    Clinical Theatre 1
    This session will cover the symptoms and signs of Endometrial cancer and when to refer on the urgent suspected cancer pathway. It will review the latest published British Menopause Society Guidelines ...
  2. Clinical Theatre 1
    Psychological support in weight management: What GPs need to know
    Psychological care is a critical - and often missing component of effective weight management. Lisa Debrou explores the psychological risks GPs should be alert to in patients living with obesity, incl ...
    • Clinical updates
    Clinical Theatre 1
    • Clinical updates
    Clinical Theatre 1
    Type 2 diabetes is one of the most pressing and preventable health challenges in UK primary care - yet opportunities to intervene early are still being missed. This session brings together leading voi ...
    • Clinical updates
    Clinical Theatre 1
  3. Clinical Theatre 1
08 Oct 2026
  1. Clinical Theatre 1
    • Clinical updates
    Clinical Theatre 1
    • Clinical updates
    Clinical Theatre 1
    This 45-minute session will explore how integrated neighbourhood teams can work together to deliver more consistent, proactive and person-centred end of life care, supported by the Daffodil Standards. ...
    • Clinical updates
    Clinical Theatre 1
    Falls and frailty are among the leading causes of reduced independence, hospital admission and poor health outcomes, yet opportunities for earlier intervention are often missed. This fireside discussi ...
    • Clinical updates
    Clinical Theatre 1
    Heart failure in primary care: recognising deterioration earlier
    • Clinical updates
    Clinical Theatre 1
    Miscarriage affects around one in four pregnancies, yet the care women and birthing people receive can vary considerably depending on where they access support. Increasingly, primary care teams are be ...
  2. Clinical Theatre 1
07 Oct 2026
  1. Clinical Theatre 2
    • Clinical updates
    Clinical Theatre 2
    This session will explore the key messages from the updated NICE type 2 diabetes guideline (NG28) and what they mean for clinical practice. We will discuss practical approaches to treatment decisions, ...
  2. Clinical Theatre 2
    Review clinical presentation and assessment of perimenopause and menopause Investigate the link between menopause and the gut microbiome Explore new approaches to supporting your perimenopausal patien ...
    • Clinical updates
    Clinical Theatre 2
    • Clinical updates
    Clinical Theatre 2
    • Clinical updates
    Clinical Theatre 2
    "Menopause now affects 10–15% of the average GP list yet most consultations still involve delivering basic education within an already overrun 10–15 minute appointment. Independent evaluation confirms ...
    • Clinical updates
    Clinical Theatre 2
    Cardiometabolic risk 2026: applying new guidance safely
    • Clinical updates
    Clinical Theatre 2
    When to suspect endometriosis: decision-making under uncertainty
  3. Clinical Theatre 2
08 Oct 2026
  1. Clinical Theatre 2
    • Clinical updates
    Clinical Theatre 2
    Fibroids in primary care: diagnosis, management and when to refer
    • Clinical updates
    Clinical Theatre 2
    Speakers coming soon
  2. Clinical Theatre 2
    Autistic people and people with a learning disability - making reasonable adjustments work in primary care
    • Clinical updates
    Clinical Theatre 2
    HRT update: what’s changed?
    • Clinical updates
    Clinical Theatre 2
    • Clinical updates
    Clinical Theatre 2
    Cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of death in women, yet opportunities for prevention are frequently missed in routine primary care consultations. Many women develop cardiovascular risk ...
  3. Clinical Theatre 2
07 Oct 2026
  1. Clinical Skills Theatre
    • Practical skills
    Clinical Skills Theatre
    PMOS in primary care: getting the diagnosis right and managing long term risk
    • Practical skills
    Clinical Skills Theatre
    • Practical skills
    • Digital & Innovation
    Clinical Skills Theatre
    • Practical skills
    Clinical Skills Theatre
    Running a CVRM review in practice: step-by-step approach
    • Practical skills
    Clinical Skills Theatre
    • Practical skills
    Clinical Skills Theatre
    • Practical skills
    Clinical Skills Theatre
    The rash that worries you: what not to miss in primary care
    Advice & Guidance is increasingly being used to reduce outpatient referrals and manage demand across the primary-secondary care interface. However, many clinicians remain uncertain about referral thre ...
    • Practical skills
    Clinical Skills Theatre
  2. Clinical Skills Theatre
08 Oct 2026
  1. Clinical Skills Theatre
    • Practical skills
    Clinical Skills Theatre
    Primary care clinicians are increasingly managing skin lesions in community settings, yet uncertainty remains around which lesions can be safely removed in practice and which require urgent referral o ...
    • Practical skills
    Clinical Skills Theatre
    Lyme disease is a bacterial infection, transmitted by the bite of an infected tick. The majority of cases will present in primary care but diagnosis can be challenging as tick bites frequently go unno ...
    • Practical skills
    Clinical Skills Theatre
    • Practical skills
    Clinical Skills Theatre
    • Practical skills
    Clinical Skills Theatre
    • Practical skills
    Clinical Skills Theatre
    • Practical skills
    Clinical Skills Theatre
07 Oct 2026
    • Practical skills
    Workshop Live
    This session introduces the role of vocational rehabilitation occupational therapy within primary care and the importance of work being seen as a health business. We will host an interactive session t ...
  1. Workshop Live
    Too much demand, not enough GP capacity?
    • Practical skills
    Workshop Live
    General practice is facing increasing uncertainty, from organisational change and workforce pressures to wider economic and technological shifts. In this session, we will explore how to build professi ...
  2. Workshop Live
    One of the biggest challenges to scaling Neighbourhood Health is releasing time for integrated neighbourhood working. Find out how Neighbourhood Group Clinics wrap proactive personalised care around p ...
    • Practical skills
    Workshop Live
08 Oct 2026
    • Practical skills
    • Leadership & service delivery
    Workshop Live
    • Practical skills
    Workshop Live
    • Practical skills
    Workshop Live
    For many of people, seeing a new way of practicing is believing. People ask all the time, “Can I observe a Group Clinic?” Today at Best Practice you can!  Join us, put on a VR headset and join a live ...
07 Oct 2026
  1. PMA Theatre
  2. PMA Theatre
  3. PMA Theatre
    Complaints are an inevitable part of working in primary care, but when managed well, they can become one of our greatest opportunities for learning, improvement and building trust. In this session, I ...
  4. PMA Theatre
  5. PMA Theatre
  6. PMA Theatre
    This session will look at the ongoing impact of the 2026/27 funding changes and suggest areas to review or actions to implement back in your practice. It will dive into the understanding of the fundin ...
  7. PMA Theatre
    The presentation explores how GP practices can create and sustain a culture of safety in 2026, focusing on patient safety, workforce wellbeing, digital resilience, and quality improvement. It examines ...
  8. PMA Theatre
07 Oct 2026
    • Leadership & service delivery
    Business Service Hub
  1. Business Service Hub
    Speakers coming soon
  2. Business Service Hub
    Session presented by Albert Goodman LLP
    Speakers coming soon
  3. Business Service Hub
    As practice list sizes grow join 2 leading practices to learn how Rota planning is key to unlocking the benefits of Primary Care at Scale
  4. Business Service Hub
    Good housekeeping, better outcomes: How decisions today impact profit, pensions and tax tomorrow
    This practical session will explore how better financial processes, accurate pension management and good housekeeping can improve practice performance, avoid costly pitfalls and create positive knock- ...
  5. Business Service Hub
    Speakers coming soon
  6. Business Service Hub
    Emerging risks in the healthcare sector
    This session is designed to help primary care practices better understand two critical areas of organisational risk beyond traditional concerns. Management Liability focuses on protecting the business ...
  7. Business Service Hub
    Session presented by Quantum
    Speakers coming soon
    • Leadership & service delivery
    Business Service Hub
    Speakers coming soon
08 Oct 2026
  1. Business Service Hub
    Speakers coming soon
  2. Business Service Hub
    Speakers coming soon
  3. Business Service Hub
    Speakers coming soon
  4. Business Service Hub
    Speakers coming soon
  5. Business Service Hub
    Speakers coming soon
    • Leadership & service delivery
    Business Service Hub
    CQC is back — and it's not starting with struggling practices. Under the Return to Good and Outstanding programme, practices rated Good years ago are being re-assessed first. Daniel Vincent, former Pr ...
  6. Business Service Hub
    Speakers coming soon
07 Oct 2026
  1. Smart Practice Theatre
    • Digital & Innovation
    Smart Practice Theatre
    AI is ripping up the ground beneath our digital feet. Pioneers are reporting AI agents mysteriously phoning them in the early morning and sending them hampers of food. What does that all mean for us? ...
  2. Smart Practice Theatre
    Session presented by Abtrace
  3. Smart Practice Theatre
    Session presented by Optum
  4. Smart Practice Theatre
    Session sponsored by X-On Health
    • Digital & Innovation
    Smart Practice Theatre
    Primary care teams are increasingly relying on GP IT systems to manage rising demand, digital access, workflow pressure and patient communication, yet many clinicians still feel that the systems desig ...
  5. Smart Practice Theatre
    • Digital & Innovation
    Smart Practice Theatre
  6. Smart Practice Theatre
08 Oct 2026
  1. Smart Practice Theatre
    • Digital & Innovation
    Smart Practice Theatre
    Primary care teams across the UK continue to face rising demand, workforce pressure and increasing operational complexity — yet many practices remain uncertain about how to fully utilise ARRS roles ef ...
  2. Smart Practice Theatre
    Reducing workload and cost with smart AI triage
    GP Triage is an autonomous AI-powered digital front door for primary care, designed to safely assess patient requests and direct them to the most appropriate outcome - whether that's a booked appointm ...
    • Digital & Innovation
    Smart Practice Theatre
    What can the NHS can learn from independent online digitally-enabled healthcare providers?This session will explore the extent to which the UK public are utilising online services and the areas of hea ...
  3. Smart Practice Theatre
    Embrace the 8am rush: what it takes to resolve 95%+ of requests on the same day Anima
    What would change if your practice could see the day’s demand earlier, route clear pathways automatically and give hours of capacity back to clinical, reception and administrative teams?At one practic ...
    • Digital & Innovation
    Smart Practice Theatre
    • Digital & Innovation
    Smart Practice Theatre
    With AI solutions rapidly entering primary care, practices are increasingly faced with deciding which technologies genuinely add value and which simply add complexity. This session explores the key pr ...
  4. Smart Practice Theatre
07 Oct 2026
  1. Respiratory Clinical Theatre
  2. Respiratory Clinical Theatre
  3. Respiratory Clinical Theatre
    Respiratory care is shifting, with more diagnosis, monitoring and long-term management expected closer to home. This session will explore what respiratory transformation means for primary care in prac ...
  4. Respiratory Clinical Theatre
  5. Respiratory Clinical Theatre
    • Respiratory
    Respiratory Clinical Theatre
    Respiratory care is shifting, with more diagnosis, monitoring and long-term management expected closer to home. This session will explore what respiratory transformation means for primary care in prac ...
    • Respiratory
    Respiratory Clinical Theatre
    Not every cough, infection or episode of breathlessness is asthma or COPD. This session will help clinicians recognise when respiratory symptoms do not fit the expected pattern, when to rethink a diag ...
08 Oct 2026
  1. Respiratory Clinical Theatre
  2. Respiratory Clinical Theatre
    • Respiratory
    Respiratory Clinical Theatre
    COPD care is changing, with growing focus on risk identification, multimorbidity, referral pathways and future treatment options. This session will provide a practical update on what primary care team ...
    • Respiratory
    Respiratory Clinical Theatre
    Chronic cough is common, frustrating and often difficult to manage consistently. This session will explore what has changed in assessment and management, including red flags, common causes, when to in ...
  3. Respiratory Clinical Theatre
    • Respiratory
    Respiratory Clinical Theatre
    Respiratory care is shifting, with more diagnosis, monitoring and long-term management expected closer to home. This session will explore what respiratory transformation means for primary care in prac ...
    • Respiratory
    Respiratory Clinical Theatre
    Respiratory disease is not always recognised early, particularly in patients with non-specific symptoms, comorbidity or barriers to access. This session will focus on practical ways primary care can i ...
  4. Respiratory Clinical Theatre
07 Oct 2026
  1. Respiratory Skills Theatre
    • Practical skills
    • Respiratory
    Respiratory Skills Theatre
    Spirometry remains central to respiratory diagnosis, but interpretation can be challenging in real-world practice. This session will help clinicians recognise common patterns, spot poor-quality result ...
    • Practical skills
    • Respiratory
    Respiratory Skills Theatre
    Sleep apnoea is often missed, with patients presenting through fatigue, poor concentration, obesity, cardiovascular risk or non-specific symptoms. This session will focus on who to suspect, what to as ...
    • Practical skills
    • Respiratory
    Respiratory Skills Theatre
    FeNO can support asthma diagnosis and management, but confidence and access remain variable. This session will explain how to interpret FeNO results, avoid common pitfalls and embed testing into prima ...
  2. Respiratory Skills Theatre
    • Practical skills
    • Respiratory
    Respiratory Skills Theatre
    Poor inhaler technique remains a common cause of poor control, treatment failure and unnecessary escalation. This practical session will cover the mistakes primary care teams often miss and how to che ...
  3. Respiratory Skills Theatre
    • Practical skills
    • Respiratory
    Respiratory Skills Theatre
    Smoking cessation remains one of the most effective respiratory interventions, but conversations can be difficult to deliver under time pressure. This session will provide practical consultation techn ...
    • Practical skills
    • Respiratory
    Respiratory Skills Theatre
    Allergy in primary care: managing complex cases and reducing diagnostic uncertainty
    Allergy presentations can be complex, overlapping and difficult to interpret. This session will focus on practical approaches to assessing risk, recognising patterns, managing uncertainty and knowing ...
  4. Respiratory Skills Theatre
08 Oct 2026
  1. Respiratory Skills Theatre
    • Practical skills
    • Respiratory
    Respiratory Skills Theatre
    Respiratory disease is not always recognised early, particularly in patients with non-specific symptoms, comorbidity or barriers to access. This session will focus on practical ways primary care can i ...
    • Practical skills
    • Respiratory
    Respiratory Skills Theatre
    Diagnosing asthma in children can be difficult, particularly where preschool wheeze, viral symptoms and recurrent cough overlap. This session will provide practical guidance on assessment, follow-up, ...
  2. Respiratory Skills Theatre
    • Practical skills
    • Respiratory
    Respiratory Skills Theatre
    Severe asthma can remain hidden within routine reviews, repeated exacerbations and patients with poor control. This session will show how primary care teams can use review data, prescribing patterns a ...
    • Practical skills
    • Respiratory
    Respiratory Skills Theatre
    Breathlessness in older patients is often complex, with frailty, heart disease, deconditioning and respiratory conditions overlapping. This session will help clinicians think more broadly, recognise w ...
    • Practical skills
    • Respiratory
    Respiratory Skills Theatre
    Allergy in primary care: identifying, managing and referring patients safely
    Allergy is common in primary care, but referral decisions are not always straightforward. This session will give clinicians a practical framework for identifying risk, managing common presentations an ...
    • Practical skills
    • Respiratory
    Respiratory Skills Theatre
    Spirometry is only useful when the test is performed and interpreted well. This practical session will cover common errors, unreliable results, poor-quality traces and simple ways to improve confidenc ...
  3. Respiratory Skills Theatre

 

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