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24th February 2021

PCWHF Conference 2021 VIRTUAL

2021/02/24 09:00:00

This event is intended for UK healthcare professionals only.

Join us online. All presentations will be available to view on demand for 12 weeks if you can’t attend on the day.

The Primary Care Women’s Health Forum is delivering its Annual Conference from the safety of a virtual environment.

Join us on the day to update your knowledge of women’s health, interact with the attendees and ask questions of the speakers. Don’t worry if you can’t make the event, or get called away, you can watch all presentations on demand for 12 weeks.

A word from the Chair

Hear from Dr Anne Connolly, Chair of the PCWHF on what to expect from the Annual Conference.

What to expect

Our speakers, including Dr Anne Connolly, James Woolgar, Dr Virginia Beckett, Dr Caroline Gazet, Dr Toni Hazell, and Dr Victoria Barber will look at the evidence on a variety of women’s health issues, and translate this into practical guidance and useful tips for your own practice. Key topics include:

  • Improving access to LARC
  • Developing reproductive health hubs
  • PCOS as a public health issue
  • Abortion care and General Practice
  • Abnormal uterine bleeding evidence and management
  • Preventing late diagnosis of ovarian cancer
  • Women and HIV
  • Contraception
  • Menopause
  • PMS

The virtual event will be delivered through a mixture of live sessions and small group workshops by experts in the field who are either delivering services in primary care, or working closely with those who do. There will be an opportunity to network with colleagues virtually on the day and earn CPD points.

Watch on demand

We understand that this is an incredibly pressured time for healthcare colleagues. If your study leave has been cancelled, you can’t attend on the day, or you get called away, the platform will remain open for 12 weeks after the event. All presentations will be available to watch on demand in this period. You can return to the platform as often as you like in those 12 weeks to learn in your own time. We want to make it as easy as possible for you to update your women’s health knowledge.

eConference platform

Walkthrough of the PCWHF econference platform

Watch this video for a walkthrough of the PCWHF eConference platform.

Important message

This event is intended for UK healthcare professionals only.

It is the intention of the Primary Care Women’s Health Forum to have exhibitors from the pharmaceutical industry in attendance at this virtual conference, they will take virtual exhibition stands in the Exhibitor area. Their details will be added to this page between now and the event date of 24 February. Please check back regularly to inform yourself of the pharmaceutical companies that will be in attendance.

24th February 2021

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09:00 - 16:45

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Agenda

Morning session

  • 09:00 - Conference opens

  • 09:30 - Chairperson introduction

    Welcome from Dr Anne Connolly, Chair, PCWHF

  • 09:35 - Improving access to LARC and developing wider reproductive health hubs

    James Woolgar, Advanced Public Health Practitioner – Sexual Health Commissioning Lead, Liverpool

    The Liverpool PCN approach to improving access to LARC and developing wider reproductive health hubs. This presentation will explore how to develop and establish a similar model including steps taken to produce the vision and deliver the model so far; how funding and viability are critical to development, including different contracting models; the crucial role of training and having a system wide education group/GP engagement in planning, and the challenges faced.

  • 10:10 - Live Q&A

    Put your questions to our speaker.

  • 10:15 - PCOS as a public health issue

    Dr Virginia Beckett, Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist

    PCOS is not just infertility and acne. In this talk, Dr Beckett will consider the wider implications of the diagnosis and the impact that lifestyle can have on the incidence of PCOS across generations. She will then focus on which interventions are effective in changing behaviour to reduce negative outcomes.

  • 10:40 - Live Q&A

    Put your questions to our speaker.

  • 10:50 - Morning break

    Please take the opportunity to visit our exhibitors and meet your peers in the networking lounge.

  • 11:05 - Abortion care and General Practice

    Dr Caroline Gazet, Clinical Director – Marie Stopes UK

    Abortion care is an integral part of women’s reproductive healthcare and yet is still stigmatized. Dr Gazet will discuss the common misconceptions about abortion including who it affects, when women present for abortion and late second trimester abortion; the choices women have when they present; the type of abortion they might receive and common complications. Attendees will gain an understanding of abortion care and how it relates to General Practice.

  • 11:30 - Live Q&A

    Put your questions to our speaker.

  • 11:40 - Morning workshop

    Interactive workshops: Choose to attend a breakout session on Contraception, Menopause or Premenstrual Syndrome.

  • 12:20 - Abnormal uterine bleeding guidance – latest evidence and management

    Dr Anne Connolly, GPwSI Gynaecology, Bradford and Chair of the Primary Care Women’s Health Forum

    Using cases typically seen in primary care, discussion will include how to apply the latest evidence to the management of the women who present with abnormal uterine bleeding. The session will use the lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic to optimise the remote consultation and reduce unnecessary face to face visits and investigations, thereby streamlining management. It will cover a review of the menstrual cycle and risk factors for endometrial pathology, revision of latest evidence-based guidelines and tips to apply evidence into practice.

  • 12:50 - Live Q&A

    Put your clinical questions to our speaker.

  • 13:00 - Lunch

    Please take the opportunity to visit our exhibitors and meet your peers in the networking lounge.

Afternoon session

  • 13:50 - Women and HIV

    Dr Toni Hazell, GP, appraiser, freelance medical writer and editor

    The prognosis for patients with HIV has changed beyond recognition in the last 30 years – what was once a death sentence is now a chronic disease. With an increasing cohort of older patients with HIV, issues of ageing become more important. Dr Hazell is a GP with experience as a clinical assistant in HIV. She will cover a brief history of HIV before moving on to frailty and management of the menopause in patients with HIV, as well as discussing who to test and when, smears, seroconversion, pre-exposure prophylaxis, contraception, fertility, and what a GP needs to know about antiretrovirals.

  • 14:15 - Live Q&A

    Put your questions to our speaker.

  • 14:30 - Afternoon workshop

    Interactive workshops: Choose to attend a breakout session on Contraception, Menopause or Premenstrual Syndrome.

  • 15:10 - Afternoon break

    Please take the opportunity to visit our exhibitors and meet your peers in the networking lounge.

  • 15:30 - Ovarian cancer: Pitfalls of diagnosis during COVID

    Dr Victoria Barber, GP Ambassador for Target Ovarian Cancer

    Ovarian cancer is the leading cause of death from gynaecological cancers, often diagnosed too late to improve outcomes. Dr Barber, a GP partner from Northants is the GP ambassador for Target Ovarian Cancer. She will update on where we are in diagnosing this aggressive cancer, the pitfalls in history taking and the particular difficulties during COVID. She will explore how to prevent late diagnosis, what bloating really means and why abdominal symptoms are important.

  • 15:55 - Live Q&A

    Put your questions to our speaker.

  • 16:10 - What’s new and top tips

    Dr Anne Connolly, GPwSI Gynaecology, Bradford and Chair of the Primary Care Women’s Health Forum

  • 16:25 - Live Q&A

    Put your questions to our speaker.

  • 16:40 - Review, feedback & close

    Dr Anne Connolly, GPwSI Gynaecology, Bradford and Chair of the Primary Care Women’s Health Forum

Your expert speakers

Dr Anne Connolly GPwSI Gynaecology, Bradford

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Having survived a two year posting to a mission hospital in rural Zimbabwe, Anne returned to General Practice in inner-city Bradford in 1990 and is currently working as a GP providing care for asylum seekers, refugees, homeless and sex workers.

She is a GPSI in gynaecology , accredited as a hysteroscopist, colposcopist and FSRH trainer.  She has been involved with commissioning since 2006 and is Bradford City CCG clinical board member with remit for maternity, women’s, children and young people’s healthcare.

Anne is chair of the PCWHF and RCGP Clinical Champion for Women’s Health.  She is also co-editor of Women’s Health in Primary Care. 

Mr James Woolgar Advanced Public Health Practitioner – Sexual Health Commissioning Lead

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As the commissioning lead for Sexual Health for Liverpool, I have a wealth of experience working at a local, regional and now national level. I am responsible for designing and commissioning a wide range of services and for leading a series of programmes and strategic groups to address sexual ill-health. I have developed excellent relationships with providers in order to improve the way we deliver services and achieve better quality outcomes for patients and the wider population.

I am Chair of the Liverpool Sexual Health Strategic Network which is developing a new sexual health strategy for the city, and am leading the work on Liverpool’s HIV and Aids Eradication Plan and led on Liverpool’s recent bid to declare itself a HIV Fast Track City.

I have led on a number of redesign and integration programmes and have recently presented at the EHSHCG to highlight a new approach to LARC in Primary Care which was developed to improve the local provision offered through Pharmacies and GPs.
I am committed to developing sexual health services for the people that we serve and now have the privilege of representing the North of England on the English HIV & Sexual Health Commissioners Group (EHSHCG) nationally.

Dr Virginia Beckett Consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist

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Virginia Beckett is an Obstetrician & Gynaecologist at one of the busiest maternity units in the UK, in Bradford, West Yorkshire. She is Clinical Lead for Reproductive Medicine and for Orbit, Bradford’s satellite IVF unit. Virginia trained in London, specialising early on in Reproductive Medicine. During her sub-specialty training, she developed her skills in Maternal Medicine. After her appointment in Bradford in 2003, she developed specialist services for pregnant women with HIV and for women with epilepsy. The high risk population in Bradford requires a holistic approach to ensure that risks for pregnancy are reduced where possible. Virginia enjoys this challenge and believes passionately in ensuring that patients have adequate information to make appropriate decisions about their care. When Orbit opened in 2016, Virginia ceased active Obstetric practice to focus entirely on Reproductive Medicine but is still involved in skills training, being a member of the mMOET (Managing Medical and Obstetric Emergencies and Trauma) working group Virginia has a particular interest in PCOS and male infertility. Virginia is a media spokesperson for The Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists, commenting regularly in the press on issues with respect to O&G. She edited ‘The Pregnancy Book’ for the Department of Health for many years and her book ‘My Pregnancy’, a handbook for pregnancy, has been published in many languages.

Dr Caroline Gazet Clinical Director - Marie Stopes UK

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I am the clinical director for MSUK which is the leading independent sector provider for sexual and reproductive health care. Our services include abortion, stand-alone provision of LARCs and vasectomy. I have a background in general practice where I worked part time for 15 years before moving into full time sexual health services and subsequently MSUK. My current role involves overseeing clinical standards within the organisation and ensuring these are aligned to NICE Guidance. My clinical work includes providing coils within 7 days of treatment for women who have had an early medical abortion. I currently sit on the NICE Quality Standards Committee for Abortion Care as subject matter expert.

Dr Toni Hazell GP, appraiser, freelance medical writer and editor

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Toni trained at St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School and did her VTS at Northwick Park. After qualifying as a GP, she soon developed an interest in sexual and reproductive health, working as a clinical assistant in a genitourinary and HIV clinic. She currently works as a portfolio GP, combining clinical general practice with roles as an appraiser, LMC member and medical writer and editor for the RCGP and on a freelance basis. She enjoys presenting at and chairing conferences in this and other areas and continues to teach GP trainees on sexual and reproductive health and to fit intra-uterine devices and implants at her surgery in Tottenham, North London. When not at work, her two small children keep her busy and in her occasional free time she enjoys running and playing the piano.

Dr Victoria Barber GP Ambassador for Target Ovarian Cancer

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I am a GP partner in a practice in Northants and became involved with Target Ovarian Cancer when NICE guidance first came out. I have given talks on early diagnosis with particular emphasis on how GPs can avoid pitfalls and see patterns of presentation.

Interactive workshop speakers

Dr Julie Oliver GPwSI women’s health, Durham

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Completing her medical degree at Leeds she endeavoured to pursue a career in Obs and Gynae. A twelve month post working at the prestigious Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle consolidated her desire for this career path until it dawned on the fresh-faced junior doctor that her sleep would be interrupted for the rest of her working life. A swift change to General Practice soon followed along with marriage and 2 children. But the desire to do more women’s health continued and she passed the RCOG diploma, DFFP, letters of competence in coils, implants, medical education and finally Bradford’s postgraduate diploma in gynaecology.

Following graduation from Bradford she was part of a team to set up the Primary Care Women’s Health Forum, helping spread the word across the Primary Care community of changes and developments. Having persuaded the PCT to pay for her training she then found the opportunities to work within the PCT had disappeared so set up a company called “Durham Gynae” to deliver a community gynaecology clinic. She enjoys training colleagues in women’s health and travelling, but mostly getting 8 hours uninterrupted sleep.

Tracey Elliott ANP/lead nurse

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Tracey worked for over 20 years in acute medicine and critical care before coming to the realisation that 14 hour shifts and nights were not the best option for her work life balance, so ventured into primary care and has never looked back. Having had very little women’s health experience she soon found her niche and has developed a passion for sexual health, completing the diploma with FSRH and gaining competencies in both implant and coil fitting.

Tracey strongly believes that nurses in primary care can develop skills and are best placed to address the sexual health needs of women. Now that she works in daylight hours she tries to support colleagues in women’s health matters where possible.

Dr Victoria Cogger GP, Derby

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Victoria is a portfolio GP in Derby, with a particular interest in women’s health & gynaecology. She graduated from Nottingham University in 2007 and gained membership to the RCGP in 2012. During GP training she gained additional qualifications in obstetrics & gynaecology (DRCOG) and sexual and reproductive health (DFSRH). She is a qualified coil and contraceptive implant fitter.

She has developed pathways & services in Derby as part of a gynaecology clinical improvement group and she currently works part time in general practice with additional sessions in the Integrated Sexual Health Service. In addition, she is continuing to develop her specialist interest through further training in hysteroscopy and menopause within the secondary care outpatient setting.

Victoria is a regional director for the Primary Care Women’s Health Forum.

Dr Sarah Gray GP specialist in women’s health, Cornwall

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Sarah Gray has spent the last 30 years delivering Women’s Health in Primary Care. She ran an NHS menopause referral service until 2016 providing secondary and tertiary level advice. This was decommissioned to save funding costs and she continues this work in the private sector.

She provides clinical leadership in contraception for Cornwall Council. She sat on the British Menopause Society Council for 10 years and is now a director of the Primary Care Women’s Health Forum. She was a member of the groups who developed NICE guidance and quality standards for Heavy Menstrual Bleeding. She teaches at all levels from practical one to one sessions in general practice to webinars and international congresses. Her publications focus on applying the evidence in women’s health to primary care. In addition, she provides a regular general medical phone-in on BBC local radio and is a Team Leader for the Fitness to Practice directorate of the General Medical Council.

Dr Louise Price GPwSI Gynaecology, Bath

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Louise is a GP with a special interest in gynaecology based near Bath. She has almost 20 years clinical experience most of which has centred around women’s health. She initially trained in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, later changing to general practice to gain a better work life balance.

She currently spends her clinical time doing 2 days a week general practice and 1 day a week general gynaecology in secondary care. Her main area of interest is Menopause and she is currently completing her advanced special skills module which will enable her to work as a menopause specialist.

She is a board member of the Primary Care Women’s Health Forum.

Dr Hannah Short GP specialist in Menopause and Premenstrual Disorders, Newmarket

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Dr Hannah Short is an NHS GP and an accredited specialist in Menopause and Premenstrual Disorders, recognised by the British Menopause Society (BMS), The International Association for Premenstrual Disorders (IAPMD) and The National Association for Premenstrual Syndromes (NAPS).

A current member of the IAPMD Surgical Menopause Advisory Committee, Hannah also provides voluntary medical support for The Daisy Network (a charity dedicated to girls and women diagnosed with Premature Ovarian Insufficiency [POI]). Former Associate Editor of the BMS journal Post Reproductive Health, she has served as a trustee for NAPS as well as on the clinical board of The Primary Care Women’s Health Forum (PCWHF).

Dr Jane Davis GPwSI in Women's Health, Cornwall

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Jane is a GP with a special interest in Women’s Health. She recently appeared on BBC Breakfast for the launch of PCWHF Rock My Menopause campaign. She is PCWHF Regional Director for South West England. A feminist writer and medical educationalist, she’s on Twitter @DrJaneDavis1

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