Patient Centred Advances in Medicine

Keynote Topic: Diabetic Lifestyle Interventions that make a difference in General Practice

Keynote Speaker: Dr Simon Tobin, NHS GP, Trainer and Diabetes Lead GP at Norwood Surgery, Southport

Topics to be discussed

• Diabetic Lifestyle Interventions that make a difference in General Practice
• Genomics update: Changing knowledge and landscapes: an overview
• Case studies: Use of genetic information in BRCA and Ovarian Cancer
• Sustainability in prescribing: Get involved

Learning outcomes:

• Experience of patient improvements in HbA1c and well- being of lifestyle interventions in Diabetes
• Explore practice prescribing savings from successful lifestyle interventions in Diabetes
• GPs and primary care teams are introduced to the changes in basic physiology knowledge of genetic disease and risk, the interaction with epigenetics, polygenetic risk scores, and environment and how primary prevention of illness may be influenced by genomic factors. Also direct to consumer testing
• GPs and primary care teams are introduced to issues people will face in making decisions about their genetic information: benefits and harms using examples of BRCA gene variances
• Sign-posting to further learning resources

• The world is drowning in waste, much of it plastic. Now is the time for practices to consider how to reduce pollution, reduction in medicine plastics and other non recyclables and how to influence and facilitate government, organisations and interested patients to achieve this.

Speaker: Dr Lynn Greenhalgh, Geneticist, Manchester Centre for Genomic Medicine St Mary’s Hospital, Manchester and Liverpool Women’s Hospital

Chairperson & Speaker: Dr Jane Wilcock, NHS GP Salford, Chair Overdiagnosis group of RCGP, Vice-chair NWE RCGP