Face-to-face Obesity
Thu 5 Dec 2024 09:00-16:10
Leonardo Hotel Oxford, 5 CPD Hours

Designed for HCPs involved in obesity and weight-loss management to come together in-person for clinical updates and best practice guidance  

This all-encompassing conference is not to be missed as it will not only focus on new NHS approved weight-loss drugs, but also surgical interventions, psychological support, genetic implications and effective lifestyle strategies. Packed with expert-led presentations, unique roundtable discussions and evidenced based clinical updates, you will return to your role with the clarity and confidence to provide safe and supportive care for people living with obesity.  

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Obesity Management National Networking Forum
Face-to-Face 5 CPD hours Early bird: £99+VAT

5 hours Continuing Professional Development and networking: what you will learn

With increasing pressure on NHS weight-management services and the impending requirement to prescribing weight-loss drugs in primary care, this conference comes at the perfect time. Come together, in Oxford, to discover what your peers from across the country are doing to improve the management and reduce the risk factors of obesity. Book your place today to focus on:

  • New NHS approved weight-loss drugs for obesity management
  • Weight-loss drug management for diabetes
  • Providing psychological support for obesity management
  • Genetic implications and considerations for obesity management
  • Effective and implementable lifestyle strategies for weight-loss
  • Developments in surgical interventions for obesity management

Why should you attend?

This dedicated training day will arm you with the increased knowledge and practical skills to improve the management of obesity. Benefit from:

  • Building networks: gain access to obesity and primary care professionals, and thought leaders to build a community of peers for support, advice and guidance
  • Professional learning: discover clinical updates, evidenced learnings and real-world examples
  • Facilitated discussion sessions: identify innovative approaches for enhancing your pathways and improving your patient experience

Invitation to sponsor

SBK Healthcare National Conferences are designed to enable Obesity Management providers to support healthcare professionals. If you would like to sponsor this forum, please email Vanessa Pearce or call Vanessa on 01732 897788 to find out about all the engagement and branding opportunities available in the full sponsorship package.

9:00
Registration and networking
9:30
Chair’s opening remarks and introductions
Professor Rob Andrew, Associate Professor of Diabetes and Endocrinology, University of Exeter Medical School & Irena Cruickshank, Weight Management Nurse Specialist, Somerset NHS Foundation Trust
Developments in Weight-Loss Drugs
9:40
Developments in the use of weight-loss drugs for obesity management
  • Understanding the NICE guidance and national implications
  • Clinical trials explored: benefits and challenges of using drugs to manage obesity
  • Adapting your service and establishing primary care provision to support the use of new drugs
10:05
Achieving effective drug management and weight-loss for diabetes management
  • Navigating the current guidance: eligibility and practical application
  • Discovering the latest clinical trials and their implications for clinical management
  • Case studies: real-world challenges and benefits for the service; clinical outcomes explored
Professor Rob Andrew, Associate Professor of Diabetes and Endocrinology, University of Exeter Medical School
10:30
Questions and answers with your speakers
10:40
Sponsored presentation opportunity
  • If you are an obesity management provider and would like to be part of this day, and present to this audience, please contact vanessa.pearce@sbk-healthcare.co.uk for further information.
11:00
Networking break
Psychological and emotional support
11:20
Providing effective psychological support in your clinical management of obesity
  • Understanding the psychological implications of obesity including metabolic syndrome, overseas surgeries and eating disorders
  • Exploring your options for providing support and guidance: where to signpost your patients
  • Supporting better access to CBT for weight management patients
Dr Sarah Appleton, Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist, SEL Healthy Weight Programme, Guy's & St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, Healthy Weight Clinical Lead, South East London Integrated Care System, Obesity Network Co-Chair, The British Psychological Society and Founder and Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist, Bind. Weight Management Service
11:45
Questions and answers with your speakers
11:50
Interactive discussion: Navigating the challenges of emotional eating to enhance clinical support
  • Share your current challenges: do you have patients who struggle with emotional eating?
  • How best are you able to support these patients? What has worked and what hasn’t?
  • What options have you tried when patients don’t meet the criteria for eating disorder support services?
12:05
Feedback from interactive discussion: Navigating the challenges of emotional eating to enhance clinical support
Genetics vs lifestyle
12:15
Genetic obesity implications: management considerations and options explored
  • Clinical trials and research: understanding the impact of obesity genes on a person’s ability to lose weight
  • The role of weight-loss drugs on genetic obesity: exploring the clinical trials
  • Clinical management considerations: how to best support your patients with obesity genes
Professor Sadaf Farooqi, Professor of Metabolism and Medicine, University of Cambridge
12:40
Questions and answers with your speaker
12:50
Networking lunch
1:50
Implementing and supporting effective lifestyle strategies to manage obesity
  • Exploring the diet options including remission, low carb, liquid and 5:2
  • Understanding exercise options: evidenced outcomes explored
  • Case studies: navigating lifestyle change opportunities for managing obesity
Dr Ellen Fallows, GP, Bratley Medical Centre
2:15
Questions and answers with your speakers
Obesity risk factors, interventions and support
2:25
Interactive discussion: Managing obesity risk factors: cardiac, diabetes, renal and liver risks
  • What is your experience of managing obesity risk factors?
  • Share how you would improve cardiovascular, diabetes, renal and liver risk factors: what would be your considerations?
2:40
Feedback from interactive discussion: Managing obesity risk factors: cardiac, diabetes, renal and liver risks
2:50
Networking break
3:10
Developments and implications of surgical interventions for obesity management
  • Exploring the clinical outcomes and real-world effectiveness of surgery
  • Understanding the available options: implications of balloons and bariatric surgery
  • Implementing safe and effective protocols for medications post weight-loss surgery
3:35
Case studies: Effectively managing individual obesity pathways
  • Navigating fertility, surgery and diet challenges within your obesity consultations?
  • Understanding the nuances and how to adapt your care and support for individual scenarios
  • Top tips and best practice guidance: achieving a patient centered approach to weight management
4:00
Questions and answers with your speakers
4:10
Chair’s closing remarks and close of day

Call for speakers

If you would like to give a presentation and share your work or the work of your service at this online conference, we would be delighted to hear from you. 

To discuss speaking opportunities please email the conference producer Hope Frost or call Hope on 01732 897788.

Confirmed speakers to-date:

Until last year Rob Andrews led a large multidisciplinary weight management service which used specialist dietary and exercise programmes, drug therapy and bariatric surgery. His involvement in obesity management continues and with his years of experience and expansive knowledge, his guidance developing the conference programme has been advantageous. We will be delighted to welcome him as a speaker on the agenda alongside esteemed national colleagues.

Professor Rob Andrews
Job Title:
Associate Professor of Diabetes and Endocrinology
Organisation
University of Exeter Medical School
Biography

Rob Andrews is an Associate Professor at the University of Exeter, an Honorary Consultant Physician at Musgrove Park Hospital Taunton and a Danish Diabetes Academy visiting Professor. He is one of the co-founders of EXTOD, a group that aims to provide evidence-based support for people with type 1 diabetes to undertake safe and effective exercise, and to enjoy its associated health benefits. 

At the University he leads a group that researches how to encourage and support patients with type 1 diabetes to exercise. Past studies include; EXTOD education a study that aims to developed and tested an education programme for people with Type 1 diabetes (with accompanying training for health care professionals to deliver this programme) to guide insulin and carbohydrate adjustment for safe exercise; Type 1 HIT a study that determined whether High intensity interval training is an efficient and effective form of exercise for people with Type 1 diabetes and EXTOD 101 a study that determined the “real world” risks and benefits of exercise in 101 adults with type 1 diabetes who are training for and running a Half Marathon 

Ongoing studies include; EXTOD education online a study that adapt the EXTOD education programme to an online programme; EXTOD education Denmark a study that aims to culturally adapt the EXTOD education programme so it can be used in Denmark; EXTOD adolescents a study that aims to develop an education programme to help encourage and support exercise in adolescents with Type 1 diabetes; and studies that aim to determine the best ways to remotely support adult and children with Type 1 diabetes to increase their everyday physical activity. 

At Musgrove park hospital as well as doing regular Diabetes and obesity clinics he runs specialist adult, adolescent and paediatric sports clinics to give advice to sports men, women and children who have Type 1 diabetes.
Irena Cruickshank
Job Title:
Weight Management Nurse Specialist
Organisation
Somerset NHS Foundation Trust
Biography
Dr Sarah Appleton
Job Title:
Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist, SEL Healthy Weight Programme, Healthy Weight Clinical Lead, Obesity Network Co-Chair and Founder
Organisation
Guy's & St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, South East London Integrated Care System, The British Psychological Society and Bind. Weight Management Service
Biography

Dr Sarah Appleton BSc (Hons) DClinPsy CPsychol is a Highly Specialist, Chartered Clinical Psychologist working in weight management. Sarah completed her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at The University of Oxford and has since worked in five different weight management and bariatric services across the UK and in America.

Sarah is current the Psychology Lead for the Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust Specialist Weight Management Programme (Tier 3); Healthy Weight Clinical and Care Professional Lead for Partnership Southwark; Co-Chair of the British Psychological Society Obesity and Bariatric Network; and Founder of Bind. Weight Management – a service offering specialist psychological support to those living with excess weight.

Sarah has conducted research into weight management, nutrition and behaviour in collaboration with The University of Oxford, The University of Bristol, and Kings College London, and is an Alumni Fellow of Healthcare Improvement Leadership at NIHR ARC NWL; Imperial College London. 
Professor Sadaf Farooqi
Job Title:
Professor of Metabolism and Medicine
Organisation
University of Cambridge
Biography

Sadaf Farooqi is a Wellcome Principal Research Fellow and Professor of Metabolism and Medicine at the University of Cambridge, UK. She is an internationally leading Clinician Scientist who has made seminal contributions to understanding the genetic and physiological mechanisms that underlie obesity and its complications. The work of Sadaf Farooqi and her colleagues has fundamentally altered the understanding of how body weight is regulated. With colleagues, she discovered and characterised the first genetic disorders that cause severe childhood obesity and established that the principal driver of obesity in these conditions was a failure of the control of appetite. Her work is often cited as an exemplar of how the translation of research into the mechanisms of disease can lead to patient benefit. She has received a number of awards including the 2024 Outstanding Clinical Investigator Award from the Endocrine Society. In 2021, she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in recognition of her exceptional contribution to science. 
Dr Ellen Fallows
Job Title:
GP
Organisation
Bratley Medical Centre
Biography

Pricing structure

  • £99+VAT - per place before Friday 4th October (NHS and Public Sector)
  • £149+VAT - per place after Friday 4th October (NHS and Public Sector)

If you are in a situation where you do not have the funding, but would like to attend, please email Sophie Richardson or call Sophie on 01732 897788.

Commercial companies are also invited to sponsor this day. Please email Vanessa Pearce for further details.

Venue details

Venue name: Leonardo Royal Hotel Oxford

Address:  Godstow Road, Oxford, OX2 8AL

Tel: 01865 489988

Email: OxfordRoyal@leonardohotels.com

Leonardo Royal Hotel Oxford is conveniently located just 10-15 minutes from Oxford city centre with easy transport links to the city, including a bus stop outside the hotel. The hotel is easily accessible by car from the A34, A44 and M40 and is a 15 minute drive from the nearest train station, Oxford railway station, or 25 minutes by bus. The closest airport is London Heathrow. The venue also has 250 parking spaces available on a first come first serve basis. Click here for further travel details via the Leonardo Royal Hotel Oxford website.

Directions: Click here to plan your journey using Google Maps

Accommodation suggestions: You can book your bedroom directly with the hotel using the above contact details (SBK Healthcare does not facilitate accommodation bookings). The venue is centrally located and there are a number of alternative places to stay. Availability for alternative accommodation can be identified by searching online, for example www.trivago.co.uk or www.uk.hotels.com and inputting the address and date of your visit.

What happens once you have made your booking?

Once you have booked your place, SBK Healthcare will correspond with you using the email address you provided at the time of booking and you will be sent a formal confirmation. If you have not received this within 48 hours of making your booking please check your junk folder and then email bookings@sbk-healthcare.co.uk or call 01732 897788. .

Approximately one week prior to the conference you will be sent an email which will include all the final details for attendance on the day, including a final agenda and venue information.

Please inform us by writing to bookings@sbk-healthcare.co.uk if you have any special dietary or other requirements.

Reservations

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 

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.

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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Past attendee feedback

This in-person networking forum follows our hugely successful ‘Obesity Management Training: Your Guide to NHS Approved Weight-Loss Drugs’ webinar which was attended live by over 200 NHS professionals. SBK Healthcare also has a great history of delivering ‘exceptional’ conferences across clinical areas, take a look at how you can benefit from attending this educational forum:

"Always topical topics, excellently organised with top presenters. Brillian team work"

NHS Grampian, Obesity Management Training: Your Guide to NHS Approved Weight-Loss Drugs, July 2024

"Always well organised and enjoyable"

Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Trust, Obesity Management Training: Your Guide to NHS Approved Weight-Loss Drugs, July 2024

"Excellent- information directed at right level and applicable to practice"

The Blackdown Practice, How to use CGM to Improve Clinical Outcomes, Courtyard Exeter Sandy Park, July 2024

"I didn’t want it to end"

University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust, How to use CGM to Improve Clinical Outcomes, Courtyard Exeter Sandy Park, July 2024

"Very informal and informative. Good way of networking"

Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Diabetes Developments National Networking Forum, Leeds Marriott Hotel, July 2024

"Excellent event – really expanded my knowledge"

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Diabetes Developments National Networking Forum, Leeds Marriott Hotel, July 2024

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 trail-blazing NHS forums offer dedicated presentations, Q&A, networking and discussion time, each sponsor will be fully immersed into the event and able to effectively engage with your NHS audience.

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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: 

Sarah Kemm 

Contact: 01732 897788 

Email: sarah.kemm@sbk-healthcare.co.uk