SBK Healthcare

Respiratory

Mon 1 Dec 2025 09:00-16:20

Online Conference, 5 CPD Hours

Take one day out to explore how to deliver the best care for your patients living with Interstitial Lung Disease

Whether you are looking to improve your management of complex ILD patients or looking for a refresher on the treatment options and side effects, this online, interactive, training day is designed for you. This is your opportunity to come together with fellow NHS respiratory doctors, physiotherapists and nurses to update your clinical knowledge, network and share best-practice experience. You will leave this day having gained fresh insights into diagnosis, management and patient support.

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Improving Interstitial Lung Disease Pathways and Management

Online 5 hours Summer sale - £199 + VAT

Enhance your knowledge and improve your practice with expertly led, structured NHS learning

As ILD cases sharply rise in the UK, be ahead of the curve and equip your team with up-to-date knowledge and skills to effectively treat and support your patients. Leave this workshop with the skills to:

Explore the latest developments in research and emerging therapies for ILD
Improve your management of variation and side effects in complex ILD patients
Enhance the role of pulmonary rehabilitation and physiotherapy in ILD care pathway
Maximise efficiency of ILD identification and referral
Reestablish and develop your patient support groups
Elevate your palliative care pathways

Developed with convenience in mind: join this online course remotely

With an enhanced emphasis on interactive discussion and idea sharing, this unique training will provide you with all the elements you need to deliver change through:

Listening and watching presentations and speakers’ Q&A – in the main training room with your chair
Taking part in facilitated interactive sessions to improve your palliative care approaches for the management of ILD
Asking critical questions and learn from your leading expert speakers
Update your understanding of ILD whilst getting up to date advice and management techniques
Positively refresh and build upon your existing knowledge

9:00	Join, tech support and opportunity to network in your meeting room
9:30	Chair’s opening remarks and introductions
Key treatment update
9:40	Exploring the latest developments in research and emerging therapies for ILD Assessing new and emerging treatments: navigating implications on guidance Understanding what is in the pipeline for ILD management Exploring the research on adverse effect and tolerance of ILD treatments
Managing complex ILD
10:10	Improve your management of variation and side effects in complex ILD patients Managing the multi-symptom burden: supporting patients with numerous side effects Navigate treatment challenges and adverse effects: understanding tolerance levels and treatment options Case study: tailoring your approach to managing complex patients
10:40	Questions and answers with your speaker
10:50	Screen break
11:00	Interactive discussion: Enhancing your management of treatment side effects How are your patients dealing with adverse effects? How do you support them? What alternatives do you provide if drugs are causing side effects? How are negative drug interactions minimised with patients on multiple medications?
11:20	Feedback from interactive session: Enhancing your management of treatment side effects
Treatment beyond medication
11:30	Enhancing the role of pulmonary rehabilitation and physiotherapy in ILD care pathway Improving and streamlining ILD GP referrals to pulmonary rehab Understanding the implications of pulmonary rehabilitation on your patients’ outcomes and quality of life Considering the effect of respiratory muscle strength training in ILD to enhance outcomes Rachel Garrod, Respiratory Physiotherapist and Senior Lecturer, University of Galway
12:00	Questions and answers with your speaker
12:10	Lunch break
Optimising ILD Identification and Referral
12:40	Interactive discussion: Advancing your referral pathway Share the positives about your referral pathway currently? How are you working to improve your referral pathway? How do you currently communicate across your MDT? What are you doing to drive forward your communication and improve it? How do you continue to strive to improve quality within your pathways?
1:00	Feedback from interactive session: Advancing your referral pathway
1:10	Reducing late-stage referrals: optimising treatment for ILD Equipping and supporting the GPs with the tools to identify ILD earlier Creating consistent messaging across GPs, nurses and physiotherapists to streamline referrals Mapping your current ILD referral process: identifying the gaps for more efficient diagnosis
1:40	Questions and answers with your speaker
Palliative care support
1:50	Interactive discussion: Improving your palliative care support How do you navigate an emotionally difficult conversation? How do you document or communicate palliative care conversations with the wider care team? How do you support family members emotionally during palliative care? What improvements or developments are you currently making to your palliative care support?
2:10	Feedback from interactive session: Improving your palliative care support
2:20	Case study: Enhancing palliative care approaches for ILD patients Recognising your responsibility and implementing effective tools to manage a difficult conversation Supporting your patients through effective symptom management: how to prepare Facilitating advanced care planning for ILD patients: best practice approaches
2:50	Questions and answers with speaker
Enhancing patient support
3:00	Interactive discussion: Improving patient support from start to end Share how your ILD patient support groups been since COVID? If they stopped, are they back up and running? And how? How are your patients educated on their condition? What can you do to optimise information sharing amongst support groups?
3:30	Feedback from interactive discussion: Improving patient support from start to end
3:40	Reestablish and develop your patient support groups Exploring how to revive local ILD support groups in a post-COVID world Enhance patient education: addressing common questions through peer-to-peer support Understanding how support groups could benefit wider families and carers
4:10	Questions and answers with your speaker
4:20	Chairs closing remarks and close of day

Call for speakers

Your confirmed speaker to-date:

Rachel Garrod

Job Title:

Respiratory Physiotherapist and Senior Lecturer

Organisation

University of Galway

Biography

Rachel graduated from Guys School of Physiotherapy in 1991 and then worked in a number of teaching hospitals in London. In 1987 she obtained an M.Sc. in Health Sciences and specialised in respiratory care. In 2001 she was awarded a PhD in pulmonary rehabilitation. As Assistant Professor Physiotherapy, St George’s University she led on undergraduate and post graduate respiratory teaching and research. With over 100 peer reviewed publications, a number of book chapters and as editor of “Pulmonary Rehabilitation: An interdisciplinary approach”, she is an international expert on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and Pulmonary Rehabilitation.

Clinically, Rachel’s area of expertise is in the delivery of exercise for people with chronic health problems, such as diabetes, COPD, renal failure and hypertension. Her rehabilitation programmes feature components such as balance re-education, progressive resisted exercise, gait and posture training. She teaches breathing re-training, Inspiratory Muscle Training and provides physical activity therapies for people with cardio-respiratory conditions, such as asthma, emphysema, hyperventilation, and panic disorders. She is trained in both mindfulness and hypnotherapy.

Rachel moved to Spain in 2014, where she provides domiciliary and online respiratory physiotherapy / pulmonary rehabilitation. She works in in conjunction with a number of hospitals and clinics in Marbella. Rachel continues to be active in lecturing; 29th Annual Panhellenic Scientific Congress of Physiotherapy, Athens, December 2019; a series of webinars for the Irish Society of Chartered Physiotherapists in Respiratory Care, February 2021; Symposium “Dysfunctional Breathing Patterns” Irish Chartered Society of Physiotherapists Annual Conference 2021. In June 2022 she provided 2 days lecturing “Advanced Pulmonary Rehabilitation” for the Irish Respiratory Physiotherapy Society and has recently been appointed module lead for Galway University´s MSc in Pulmonary Rehabilitation.

Rachel, in conjunction with a late-stage COPD patient, has recently published “The Secret to Thriving with COPD” – a unique book written for people with COPD which advocates for pulmonary rehabilitation using the patient perspective and that of a health professional. Rachel has an online video-based course, “A Guide to Better Breathing for Life” which is available on Udemy.com.

Rachel has recently evolved an online pulmonary rehabilitation hub providing weekly live zoom sessions and a portal of education and breathing exercise videos. To share with patients please use the following link: https://betterbreathing.kartra.com/page/membershub

Pricing structure

Reservations

How this online forum will work

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.

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Terms and conditions

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.

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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

Past attendee feedback

“Really lovely interact way to meet other clinical staff in respiratory and to share ideas and how we can develop our services!”
Non-Pharmacological Management for COPD, September 2023

”Very insightful presentation with various topics covered”
Advanced Ventilation Training for ICU Physiotherapists, May 2025

“It was helpful to consolidate on knowledge and support confidence with future MDT discussions and decision making”
Advanced Ventilation Training for ICU Physiotherapists, June 2024

"Really enjoyed this study day, I think the entire team have done a great job of ensuring this was interactive and informative!"
Non-Pharmacological Management for COPD, September 2023

“Informative, with well supported info given throughout”
Dysfunctional Breathing Training for Physiotherapists, March 2025

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Improving Interstitial Lung Disease Pathways and Management