NHS Online Course | Paediatric Surgery Assessments

Online forums Paediatrics

Thu 30 Jan 2025 09:30-15:50

Online Course, 5 CPD Hours

Take your paediatric pre-operative assessment service to the next level

Created for Paediatric Wards, Paediatric Pre-Operative Assessment Services and Children’s Theatre Teams, this valuable online study day will give you the tools and practical strategies to meet the national guidelines, reduce your service wait times and minimise surgery cancellations.

Tap into the extensive experience of Sam Magson, Pre-Op Nurse Lead at Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, the course leader and discover how to develop your service, maximise your triage processes and meet the needs of your patients. Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to alleviate your service pressures and walk away with an actionable pathway to elevate your pre-operative care.

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Developing your Paediatric Surgery Pre-Operative Assessments Service

Online 5 CPD hours From £249+VAT

5 hours Continuing Professional Development: what you will learn

Are you looking for guidance on how to overcome your service challenges and improve your paediatric pre-assessment processes? Join this experience-led study day and discover:

Attend this online NHS workshop from the comfort of your own home

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

Evidenced based examples and knowledge implementation: discover how to improve your pre-operative service
Interactive presentations: ask critical questions and learn from your leading expert, Sam Magson, Pre-Op Nurse Lead at Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust
Close room discussion: benefit from hearing from your fellow attendees about their service struggles and how they have overcome them
Agreed action plan: leave the workshop with confidence to enable tangible benefits to your patients and your trust

This course is available for in-house training

9:30	Join, tech support and opportunity to network in breakout rooms Who are you and where are you from? What are your current challenges and what would you like to achieve today?
10:00	Introduction, instructions and leader’s opening remarks Sam Magson, Pre-Op Nurse Lead, Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust
Examining national guidelines
10:10	Understanding the current national guidelines for pre-operative assessments for paediatric surgeries Examining the role and necessity of pre-operative assessments to reduce wait times and mitigate risk Implementing the current national guidelines: what is the gold standard for paediatric pre-operative assessments? How to execute the pre-operative frameworks effectively in your service
10:40	Questions and answers with Sam Magson
10:50	Interactive discussion: Benchmarking your paediatric pre-operative service Describe your current service provision of paediatric pre-operative assessments Share your concerns for implementing the national guidelines and how you are working to overcome these concerns What steps are you currently taking to reduce wait times in your pre-operative approach?
11:10	Screen break
11:20	Feedback from interactive discussion: Benchmarking your paediatric pre-assessment service
Implementing service improvement
11:30	‘How to’ guidance: enhance your triage, pre-assessment clinics and processes Overcoming the challenges of telephone and face-to-face triage for successful pre-assessments Tailoring your clinics: identifying which patients require nurse-led or consultant-led clinics and why Early assessment implementation: integrating online tools to improve service efficiency
12:00	Questions and answers with Sam Magson
12:10	Interactive discussion: Tailoring your service to meet your patient’s needs Using the given case study which type of clinic would you suggest for your patient, would it be nurse-led or consultant-led and why? What exemptions would you make regarding the pre-assessment process for these patients if any?
12:30	Lunch break
1:00	Feedback from interactive discussion: Tailoring your service to meet your patient’s needs
Overcoming pre-operative challenges
1:10	Strategies and guidance: troubleshooting pre-operative assessment concerns Investigating common pre-operative assessment challenges: what to do and how to overcome them Assessing your patient surgeries effectively: preventing surgery cancellations Managing patient language barriers: how to process pre-ops on non-English speaking patients
1:40	Questions and answers with Sam Magson
1:50	Interactive discussion: Sharing your goals for implementing service improvement Describe your current service improvement goals and what steps you are taking to achieve these What resources have you used to improve your service efficiency?
2:10	Screen break
2:20	Feedback from interactive discussion: Sharing your goals for implementing service improvement
Enhancing your team
2:30	Elevating your team’s provision of paediatric pre-operative assessments Integrating a pre-operative role into your service: addressing the benefits and what to expect Utilising the roles: collaborating effectively within your team/ward to minimise pathway complexities Understanding the necessary qualifications for nurse-led pre-operative assessments
3:00	Questions and answers with Sam Magson
3:10	Interactive discussion: Inspiration and action points: your next steps to elevating your pre-operative assessment service What are your three main takeaways from the day? How are you going to implement these takeaways into your service? Share your next steps for your paediatric pre-operative assessment provision
3:30	Feedback from interactive discussion: Inspiration and action points: your next steps to elevating your pre-operative assessment service
3:40	Leader’s closing remarks
3:50	Close of day

Bringing a wealth of expertise and knowledge

Join this immersive study day and hear the first-hand experiences of your course leader, Sam Magson, as she takes you through the improvements you can make to your children’s pre-operative assessment processes:

Sam Magson

Job Title:

Pre-Op Nurse Lead

Organisation

Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust

Biography

Pricing Structure

You or a colleague can claim the multiple place NHS discount, for booking two or more places across this and any other subsequent event, providing the same pricing structure applies. Click here to view the full list of up coming events.

For group bookings of five or more people, please email our delegate support team or call 01732 897788 for further details.

This course is available for in-house training

Available as a bespoke course to teams of 30+ people. Please do contact us if you would like this training delivered exclusively to your team, with the content developed to drill into the specific needs of your service. Please email Sarah Kemm or call 01732 897788 for further details.

Commercial companies are also invited to sponsor this day. Please email Sarah Kemm for further details.

Reservations

You can reserve a no-obligation place whilst you apply for funding

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 training 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 course.

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. If you would like to attend a zoom practice session before the event takes place, please let us know by emailing bookings@sbk-healthcare.co.uk. You will have the opportunity to meet an SBK Healthcare staff member who will ensure you are able to access zoom, that your camera and microphone work and you are fully set-up for the day. This is optional but if you do wish to attend, please use the same device that you plan to use on the day.

On the day, when registration starts, you will be able to join the course by initially entering a waiting room when there may be a short wait. 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.

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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Expected attendees

Designed for Paediatric Ward, Paediatric Pre-Operative Assessment Service and Children’s Theatre Teams looking to take their pre-operative assessments to the next level. This training has been designed for, but is not limited to:

Past attendee feedback

SBK Healthcare has been holding webinars, online forums, face-to-face conferences and workshops for the NHS for over 18 years. They are researched and designed to help you both in your day-to-day work, and to set up new services, improve on the delivery of current services and deal with your cost, productivity and efficiency challenges. Check out what some of our past attendees have said:

“Excellent mix of presentations and group discussion”
East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, Paediatric Complex Needs: MDT Communication Models and Strategies, June 2024

“Interesting, thought-provoking; great way of learning from others”
Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Elevate your Transition Pathways from Paediatric to Adult Services, Manchester 2024, March 2024

“Fantastic and valuable insight on other transition models”
NHS Tayside, Improving the Transition of Young People into Adult Services, March 2023

“Great to network with other professionals and hear about other teams”
Belfast Health & Social Care Trust, Streamlining Complex Paediatric Discharge Pathways, April 2023

“Amazing day and brilliant to have a CCN running it. Content was perfect. Opportunities for sharing info”
Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust, Advanced IV Therapy Training for Children’s Community Nurses, April 2024

“Really found this training very interesting and helpful. A lot of great networking opportunities and the case studies were really useful, encouraging interaction”
North Yorkshire Disabled Children's Service, Advancing Children’s Continuing Care, September 2023

“Really interesting study day. Lots to think about and relay to my team in the community”
Hounslow & Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust, Paediatric Oncology Care Closer to Home, March 2022

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 delivery 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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Developing your Paediatric Surgery Pre-Operative Assessments Service