Education and Events

23 January 2025 at 7:30 pm

MANAGEMENT OF TYPE 2 DIABETES DURING RAMADAN

Alia Gilani
Senior Diabetes Clinical Pharmacist

Ramadan is the 9th month of the Islamic calendar.  The Qur’an requires Muslims to fast during the month of Ramadan, from sunrise to sunset.People with certain health

conditions can be exempt from fasting, but ultimately it is a personal choice.Diabetes specialist Pharmacu=ist Alia Gilani , who is a practising Muslim explains how you can support patients in Ramadan.

Learning Objectives:

1. Assessment of patients with diabetes pre -Ramadan, including risk stratification
2. Recommended medication adjustments for people with Diabetes wishing to fast during Ramadan
3. The risks of fasting to a patient with Diabetes

 

Alia Gilani: Biography

Alia is a Senior Diabetes Clinical Pharmacist whose interests lie in ethnic inequalities, diabetes and cardio-metabolic disease. She helped established and run a bi-lingual medication review service in NHS Glasgow in 2002. This was the “MELT” service (Minority Ethnic Long Term medicines Service) which operated for a over a decade.  The MELT was an open referral medication review service which allowed referrals to be received from both primary and secondary care. She has received several awards for her work in which the service has been recognised both locally and nationally. She has chaired the NHS Glasgow Diabetes Ethnicity and Inequalities Group in the past.

She has also been running outreach clinics for South Asian diabetics for over a decade in various locations e.g. mosques, elderly centres. She was a member for 13 years of the diabetes working group for the South Asian Health Foundation and had the role of Regional lead and CEO for 2 years. She was the first pharmacist on the Primary Care Diabetes Society and a committee member for 7 years.

She has hosted several diabetes awareness days in community venues promoting SAHF and NHS services. She is on the editorial board of Diabetes in Primary Care Journal. She contributes to several journals by writing articles on diabetes related topics.  She is involved in healthcare professional’s education by delivering lectures both locally and nationally on topics from managing diabetes during Ramadan to tackling health and ethnic inequalities. She was involved in delivering a lecture at the first joint RCGP and RPS diabetes conference and lectured at the European Society of Clinical Pharmacy in 2017 and 2023 on how pharmacists can tackle inequalities. In May 2017 she spoke at the Scottish parliamentary diabetes cross party group on issues pertaining to diabetes amongst the BME population in Scotland.

She currently sits on the DUK Professional organising committee, works freelance for the NHS and for companies delivering education around the UK to healthcare professionals.

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30 January 2025 at 7:30 pm

CONCUSSION (exact title TBC)

Donna Sanderson-Hull
Senior Consultant Sports Medicine Physiotherapist & Practice Owner at Blue Sky Physiotherapy

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6 February 2025 at 7:30 pm

PLATELET-RICH PLASMA AND OTHER NON MEDICATED TREATMENTS FOR HAIR LOSS

Chloe Heyworth
Trichologist & Micropigmentation Specialist

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13 February 2025 at 7:30 pm

BUTTERFLIES IN THE STOMACH: MANAGING RISK IN PAEDIATRICS

Dr Dan Magnus
Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine | Bristol Royal Hospital for Children & Consultant Senior Lecturer in Global Child Health | University of Bristol . He is also the co-Director of the new Bristol Paediatric Clinic, Litfield House

With increasing pressure across the NHS, the clinical assessment and management of children can feel more worrying for clinicians than ever before, including in primary care.  This is further exacerbated by high profile media and coroner cases as well as areas of focus like ‘Martha’s Rule’.  But there are things we can do as clinicians to help manage risk in paediatrics and to minimise that ‘butterflies in the stomach’ feeling we all have on occasion. In this talk we will look at clinical risk, how we carry it and how we manage it when it comes to seeing and supporting children and their families.

Dr Dan Magnus is a Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine at the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children and Consultant Senior Lecturer in Global Child Health at the University of Bristol. He is also the co-Director of the new Bristol Paediatric Clinic, Litfield House.

 

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27 February 2025 at 7:30 pm

DIAGNOSIS TO TREATMENT: SUPPORTING THE PRIMARY CARE PRACTITIONERS’ MIGRAINE MANAGEMENT JOURNEY

Dr Richard Ibitoye
Consultant Neurologist and Lead for the Headache Clinic at Southmead Hospital

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6 March 2025 at 7:30 pm

CHILDHOOD FITS, FAINTS AND FUNNY TURNS

Dr Andrew Mallick
Consultant Paediatric Neurologist

Dr Andrew Mallick is a consultant paediatric neurologist working at Litfield House Medical Centre.  His NHS practice is in Bristol Royal Hospital for Children. He works in the nationally designated Children’s Epilepsy Surgery Service (CESS) and is the neurology lead for the southwest paediatric neurovascular service.  He is a regular trainer on the UK Paediatric Epilepsy Training (PET) Courses and was chair of the South West Interest in Paediatric Epilepsy (SWIPE) network from 2016 – 2024.

Overview / Learning Objectives:

• Epilepsy is the most common chronic neurological condition in childhood.
• Concept of epilepsy syndromes and “the Epilepsies”.
• Concerns about epilepsy misdiagnosis.
• There are a wide range of presenting features that occur in epilepsy but most are not specific and can occur in a wide range of other paroxysmal disorders.
• Paroxysmal disorders are common in children and epilepsy is the diagnosis in a quarter of children.
• The other differential diagnoses of paroxysmal episodes in children include syncope (including faints, breath holding attacks, reflex anoxic seizures), parasomnias, tics, paroxysmal movement disorders, febrile convulsions, and non-epileptic attack disorder. Many of these will be discussed in detail.
• Current treatment options for epilepsy – the good, the bad, and the controversial.

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