Thu 21 May 2026 09:00-16:40
Online Conference, 6 CPD Hours

Enhance your transition service and ensure seamless, patient-centred care from paediatric to adult services

Featuring expert presentations and practical resources, this dedicated course will deliver practical and actionable ways to streamline transition services and improve outcomes for young people. Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to connect with paediatricians, nurses, GPs and specialist teams involved in transition care to share your challenges and build a supportive network. Take one day out to gain practical, transferable approaches to improve engagement, safeguarding and transition planning within your service.

Transition is more than a handover - it’s a carefully managed baton pass. Book your place on this course and empower your team to deliver seamless, patient-focused transitions

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Enhancing Transition Pathways from Paediatric to Adult Services
Online 6 CPD hours From £249+VAT

Improving transition care

6 hours Continuing Professional Development: what you will learn

Are you striving to strengthen your transition service? Or looking to be inspired by practical, real world examples of how services are improving transition for young people and their families?

Join this immersive online course, where you will:

  • Gain practical insight into CQC expectations and prepare confidently for inspection 
  • Learn how joint clinics, youth work approaches and coordinated handovers support seamless transitions
  • Strengthen your safeguarding practices through clearer processes and communication 
  • Develop skills to improve engagement through effective information sharing 
  • Build confidence in managing complex transitions
  • Support self-advocacy and independence while involving parents and carers appropriately
  • Improve GP involvement in transition planning and wellbeing support

Online and interactive

Developed with convenience in mind: join this online course remotely

Packed with examples of best practice, novel ideas and expert advice, plus benefit from:

  • Networking and meeting other transition professionals – turning on your videos and microphones in break out rooms
  • Listening and watching presentations and speakers’ Q&A – in the main conference room with your chair
  • Taking part in facilitated interactive sessions – enabled by moderators in the breakout rooms
  • Feeding back and engaging – using the chat box and moderators sharing content in the main conference room

9:00
Registration, technical support and networking opportunity
9:30
Introduction, instructions and chair’s opening remarks
Benchmarking quality inspections
9:40
Preparing for CQC inspection in your transition service
  • How to meet CQC expectations for transition from children’s to adult services
  • Understanding the key areas of inspection focus: safeguarding, care planning and multi-agency collaboration
  • Practical real-world guidance when preparing for an inspection: what to consider
Bridging transition gaps with youth work
10:10
The role of youth work in keeping CYP engaged during their handover to adult services
  • Bridging the gap between clinical care and real-world support during transition
  • Strategies and interventions to improve engagement, self-advocacy and continuity of care for young people
  • Practical approaches for implementing youth worker–style support in teams where dedicated youth worker roles are not possible
Darren Meade, Youth Worker, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
10:40
Questions and answers with your speakers
10:50
Interactive discussion: How to incorporate youth work approaches in your service
  • Do you have access to youth workers in your service? If no, how can you work to incorporate these approaches into your team?
  • How do you currently work to engage young people in their healthcare? What is effective in your team?
  • What do you plan to implement going forward?
11:10
Feedback from your interactive discussion: How to incorporate youth work approaches in your service
11:20
Screen break
Safeguarding CYP during transition
11:30
Protecting young people admitted to adult wards: communication, safeguarding and awareness
  • Developing systems, processes and policies to safeguard young people on adult wards
  • Navigating the realities of paediatric versus adult wards: preparing your CYP
  • Building communication between adult wards and paediatric services to ensure clear admission awareness
Bethan Williams, Roald Dahl Transition Coordinator, Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust and Nadia Hyde, Safeguarding Lead, Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
12:00
Supporting CYP self-advocacy and independence in their healthcare and transition
  • Exploring the need to safeguard independence and self-advocacy for transition patients
  • How to engage families effectively while respecting young people’s autonomy
  • Supporting your families: navigating deputyship, guardianship and power of attorney
12:30
Questions and answers with your speakers
12:40
Interactive discussion: How to support young people with varying levels of maturity to advocate for themselves during transition
  • What experience do you have of young people not being ready to advocate for themselves in adult healthcare settings? What have you done or could you do to better support them?
  • What is the role of parents advocating for their adolescent children during transition? How do you balance respect for parents while ensuring the CYP voice is heard?
  • How can limited maturity or self-advocacy increase safeguarding risks during transition, and what practical steps can reduce these risks?
1:00
Feedback from your interactive discussion: How to support young people with varying levels of maturity to advocate for themselves during transition
1:10
Lunch break
Fostering a seamless transition
1:40
Establishing and assessing the benefits of a joint paediatric and adult transition clinic
  • How joint clinics can ensure that CYP are seamlessly transitioned into adult care
  • Assessing systems and processes that address the challenges of one appointment handovers
  • Case study: measuring the outcomes and successes of joint transition clinic
2:10
Improving engagement of GPs with transition from paediatrics to adult services
  • Understanding the role of GPs in transition and what GPs need from paediatrics to collaborate effectively
  • How to involve GPs in the social and wellbeing elements of transition
  • Exploring the role of GP learning disability annual checks: implications for the transition process
2:40
Questions and answers with your speakers
Improving handover documentation
2:50
Interactive discussion: Building open communication and sharing through clear documentation
  • Discuss the practical strategies you use in your service to create concise, meaningful transfer documents. How do you decide what information is essential to communicate?
  • How do you coordinate documentation across paediatric, adult, GP and community teams. What are your challenges and how are you working to overcome them?
  • How can you work to improve communication and continued sharing between teams?
3:10
Feedback from your interactive discussion: Building open communication and sharing through clear documentation
3:20
Screen break
Navigating complex cases
3:30
Supporting CYP with complex needs and their parents and carers during transition
  • Preparing parents and carers in advance of transition: providing effective communication and information sharing
  • Balancing parental and carer support with patient self-advocacy
  • Exploring how the role of community and social services can support complex children and their families during transition
Joanna Grant, Director of Nursing, MCS Healthcare
4:00
Questions and answers with your speakers
4:10
Interactive discussion: Practical ways to support CYP and their parents during a complex transition
  • Share examples of good practice when transitioning complex patients: what works, what does not work and what needs changing in your service?
  • How can you support patients with complex needs when there is no adult service equivalent?
  • How do you support parents and carers with legal, financial and consent challenges?
4:30
Feedback from your interactive discussion: Practical ways to support CYP and their parents during a complex transition
4:40
Chair’s closing remarks and close of day

First-hand speaker experiences

This is a unique opportunity to connect with a national network of transition leaders, share strategies and approaches, and take-home practical solutions to challenges you face every day in enhancing your transition pathways from paediatric to adult care. Gain real-word insights, best practice examples, novel ideas and expert advice from:


Job Title:
Youth Worker
Organisation
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Biography

Job Title:
Director of Nursing
Organisation
MCS Healthcare
Biography

Job Title:
Roald Dahl Transition Coordinator
Organisation
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
Biography

Job Title:
Safeguarding Lead
Organisation
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
Biography

Call for speakers

If you would like to be a speaker at this forthcoming online course, we would love to hear from you! 

Please email the course producer Karolina Kozakova or call Karolina on 01732 897788.

Pricing structure

  • Early Bird £249 + VAT for one NHS or public sector place when you book on or before Friday 10th April
  • £399 + VAT (each) for one NHS or public sector place when you book after Friday 10th April
  • Group discount - 4 places for the price of 3 (NHS or Public Sector)
  • Commercial companies are invited to sponsor this day, please email Vanessa Pearce for further details

If your funding has not yet been secured or you would like to hold your place with no obligation, you can reserve your place with us. Please email the reservations team at SBK Healthcare with your details:

  • Booking contact: name, job title, department, email and telephone number
  • Event(s) to reserve for: title and date
  • Delegate details (for each delegate): name, job title, department, email and telephone number
  • Organisation details: name and address

Alternatively you can make a confirmed booking by emailing the above information to the bookings team 

Once you have booked your place, SBK Healthcare will correspond with you using the email address you provided at the time of booking. Within one week of the online conference taking place, you will be sent final details of the course including a full agenda, programme timings and your Zoom joining instructions. This email will include a joining link that can be used to access the conference.

If you have not received your email two days before your event, do check your junk folder then contact SBK Healthcare on 01732 897788.

Practice sessions are available and you will be sent an invitation to join one of our delegate practice sessions. These are optional but great if you are unsure of whether your camera and microphone will work on Zoom. We hold several one hour practice sessions across the week when a member of SBK Healthcare staff will be waiting in Zoom to assist you. Please do pop in, say hello and make sure you are all set for the day.

On the day, when registration starts, you will be able to join the conference by initially entering a waiting room when there may be a short wait. When you are automatically brought back into the conference room for the start of the conference, you will be asked to turn off your camera and microphone so that the chair can start the forum. During each presentation you will be able to ask questions in the chat box function. The forum will include screen breaks, as well as topic themed interactive sessions which will take place in the breakout rooms.

Click here to view the specially created 5-minute video that will walk you through how to get the most out of attending your SBK Healthcare interactive online forum.

Certification of attendance

A certificate for Continuing Professional Development will be given to every fully registered participant who completes the course, as a record of your continuing professional training and development.

Registration fees

You will be sent an instant payment option or invoice on registration. Your payment is required in advance. If your fee has not been received prior to the event, and you are not able to provide a PO or proof of payment, you will be asked to make a credit or debit card payment on the day.

Modify registration

To let us know if your details are not correct when you have already registered, please email the bookings team.

Cancellations and substitutions

A full refund of fees will be made only for cancellations received within the first 48 hours of the booking being made. Notice of cancellation must be received in writing by emailing the bookings team at SBK Healthcare. Should you need to cancel your registration after this date, the registration fee remains payable in its entirety although a substitution will be accepted and conference documentation will be provided. Substitution attendees for delegates unable to attend after registering are acceptable at any time.

Event changes

It may be necessary for reasons beyond the control of the conference organisers to alter the content, speakers or the timing of the programme. We will endeavour to keep you abreast of such changes but any unavoidable change to the format will not constitute a reason to refund the fee. Should the event be postponed, we will endeavour to reschedule the event. If, for reasons beyond the control of the conference organiser, the event is cancelled, a full refund will be made. We do not accept any liability for any incurred costs resulting from a postponement or cancellation.

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Expected attendees

This online course is designed to equip attendees with practical and actionable strategies to enhance their transition services. This includes but is not limited to:

  • Consultant Paediatricians and Paediatric CNS
  • Transition Leads, Nurses, and Coordinators 
  • GPs, Children’s Community nurses and primary care
  • Adult Specialists, Nurses and Community Health Teams

Past attendee feedback

Held since 2014, courses on Transition to Adult Services have evolved to engage with your challenges and support your progress. Hear how other attendees have recently benefitted from shared experiences and guided presentations: 

‘All speakers were so passionate in their roles within Transition and this was so lovely to see’

Bridging the Gap: Streamlining Transition to Adult Services 2025, Online

‘Great to hear about the challenges and great work across the country, helps spur me on’

Bridging the Gap: Streamlining Transition to Adult Services 2025, Online

‘The subjects covered were informative and I have taken away ideas and contacts from today’

Bridging the Gap: Streamlining Transition to Adult Services 2025, Online

‘Very valuable day’

Developing your Healthcare Transition Pathway to Adult Services, December 2024, Online

‘Good networking event with some ideas/inspirations for future practice’

Elevate your Transition Pathways from Paediatric to Adult Services, March 2024, Manchester

‘Excellent speakers who were knowledgeable and interesting. Topics were helpful and of relevance to my practice’

Elevate your Transition Pathways from Paediatric to Adult Services, March 2024, Manchester

‘Interesting, thought-provoking; great way of learning from others’

Elevate your Transition Pathways from Paediatric to Adult Services, March 2024, Manchester

‘Good opportunity to meet people from other areas and share experiences’

Elevate your Transition Pathways from Paediatric to Adult Services, March 2024, Manchester

‘Brilliant content, interesting speakers, shared experiences with a variety of professionals’

Elevate your Transition Pathways from Paediatric to Adult Services, March 2024, Manchester

‘Well-presented course useful information’

Developing your Healthcare Transition Pathway to Adult Services, December 2024, Online

View further comments on SBK Healthcare events on Trust Pilot.

Why sponsor?

Our role at SBK Healthcare is to bring industry together with healthcare professionals so that you can educate and inform your audience. These events offering dedicated presentation, Q&A, networking and discussion time, each sponsor will be full immersed into the event and able to effectively engage with your NHS audience.

Interested in having your own event, managed by us?

SBK Healthcare also provides in-house forums. Working closely with you as the client we can research, produce, market and deliver the conference or online forum that best suits the audience and meets your goals.

Reach out today

If you would like more information on our sponsorship options an in-house forum or if you wish to discuss your needs and what solutions may be appropriate for your business, please contact: 

Vanessa Pearce

Contact: 01732 897788 

Email: vanessa.pearce@sbk-healthcare.co.uk