Join fellow Children’s Community and Hospices Nurses for this one-day course, providing a welcome refresher to Long-Term Non-Invasive Ventilation
When there is a lack of standardisation across the country and navigating ventilators is complex, benchmarking your role is vital. Book your place today to network, learn from the experiences of others with a wealth of knowledge and boost your confidence for supporting CYP using NIV.

6 hours Continuing Professional Development: what you will learn
Developed with convenience in mind: join this online forum remotely
9:00 |
Registration, technical support and networking opportunity
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9:30 |
Introduction, instructions and chair’s opening remarks
Lee Richardson, Home Ventilation Nurse, Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust
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Navigating paediatric complex discharge from hospital to home | |
9:40 |
Streamlining paediatric complex discharge home for CYP using NIV
Sarah Glencrose, Clinical Service Lead, Children Community Nursing Service, Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust
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10:10 |
Questions and answers with your speaker
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10:20 |
Interactive discussion: Exploring commissioning and funding models for Paediatric NIV
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10:40 |
Feedback from interactive discussion: Exploring commissioning and funding models for Paediatric NIV
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10:50 |
Screen break
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Improving the use of Non-Invasive Ventilation | |
11:00 |
How to improve and standardise mask fitting in home settings to ensure comfort and compliance
Lee Richardson, Home Ventilation Nurse, Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust
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11:30 |
Questions and answers with your speaker
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11:40 |
Best practice guidance for optimising ventilator settings for children and young people
Natalie Wilkinson, Specialist Physiotherapist in Long Term Ventilation, Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust
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Innovation within Non-Invasive Ventilation | |
12:10 |
Spotlight talk: Utilising automated design to create patient specific NIV masks for children
Dr Connor Myant, Senior Lecturer, Imperial College London
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12:20 |
Questions and answers with your speakers
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12:30 |
Lunch break
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Enhancing patient outcomes and quality of life | |
1:00 |
Improving consent and compliance to ensure NIV success for CYP
Dr Elaine Chan, Consultant in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine, Sleep and Non-Invasive Ventilation Lead, Clinical Lead for Respiratory Medicine and Honorary Associate Professor (ICH), Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children
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1:30 |
Exploring the importance of ethical decision making in paediatric NIV
Dr Samiran Ray, Consultant, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust
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2:00 |
Questions and answers with your speaker
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2:10 |
Interactive discussion: How to support CYP to improve their quality of life
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2:30 |
Feedback from interactive discussion: How to support CYP to improve their quality of life
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2:40 |
Screen break
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How to achieve successful NIV | |
2:50 |
Regular reassessment and home monitoring: collaborating to get children off Long-Term NIV
Nancy Howell, Community Children’s Nurse, Wiltshire Children’s Community Nursing Service, HCRG Care Services Limited
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3:20 |
Questions and answers with your speaker
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Enhancing transition to adult services | |
3:30 |
Interactive discussion: Addressing the challenges faced when transitioning children from paediatric NIV care to adult services
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3:50 |
Feedback from interactive discussion: Addressing the challenges faced when transitioning children from paediatric NIV care to adult services
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4:00 |
Chair's closing remarks and close of conference
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Call for speakers
Confirmed speaker to-date:
Sarah currently works as the Clinical Service Lead for children’s community nursing services. She has worked both within the acute and community paediatric setting for the past 22 years across London and Surrey.
In addition, Sarah has also worked within the charitable sector as an in-house nurse within Shooting Star Hospice. Her team strive to provide an integrated service, whereby they work closely alongside the children’s tertiary centres and specialists to provided care closer to home that meets the families and children’s needs and wishes. Their continuing care provision ensures that the child’s needs are assessed on an individual basis and that the funding and provision for continuing care palliative care is allocated in equitably and swiftly.
During Covid 19 her team worked collaboratively across the local authorities and social care sector to ensure that all children with home ventilation were able to safely access school, when this has been a high-risk aerosol generating procedure. This led to the publication of Sarahs first journal article in CHEST journal in 2021.
Connor Myant is a Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) and group lead in the Advanced Manufacturing Group at the Dyson School of Design Engineering. His general research interests include: Design for Additive Manufacture, Mass Customisation, development of 3D Printing technology and software, and Tribology.
Connor is currently module leader for Solid Mechanics 2 (Core 2nd yr module), and Design for Additive Manufacture (3rd/4th yr elective) on the Design Engineering Masters Degree.
Prior to starting his lectureship, Connor worked in the ICL Tribology Group, where he held a Junior Research Fellowship studying synovial fluid lubrication of artificial articular joints. Connor gained his PhD from Imperial College London in 2010 on the development of experimental techniques for investigating lubricated, compliant, bearing contacts. Connor graduated from the University of Exeter in 2006 with a Bachelors (BEng) in Mechanical Engineering.
Dr Elaine Chan is a Consultant Respiratory Paediatrician at Great Ormond St Hospital. Her subspecialty interests are sleep medicine and long-term ventilation. She is the Clinical Lead in Non-Invasive Ventilation and Respiratory services. Her current research focuses on adherence to non-invasive ventilation, its barriers/facilitators, and relation to health outcomes. She served as a member of BTS guideline group previously and has been involved in the NCEPOD national long-term ventilation survey (2019) and ERS paediatric non-invasive respiratory support taskforce (2019-21). She is an active member of the Pan-London LTV network, helping to shape the policy and care of home-ventilated children.
Nancy qualified as a paediatric nurse 7 years ago, working in the tertiary centres with children with complex medical needs. She joined the community nursing team 4 years ago and worked on developing LTV pathways in the service, improving links with the tertiary centres and becoming the lead LTV link nurse. She is now part of the Central LTV network for information sharing and learning.
Expected attendees
Past attendee feedback
This online meeting follows a number of previous successful paediatric and ventilation focused meetings which have previously been described as ‘fantastic for networking’ and ‘one of the best conference I have attended’. But don’t take our word for it, checkout how much the attendees enjoy our events:
‘Great day, thought provoking’
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Paediatric Complex Needs - MDT Communication Models and Strategies, June 2024
‘Excellent mix of presentations and group discussion’
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Paediatric Complex Needs - MDT Communication Models and Strategies, June 2024
‘Amazing. Really enjoyed how interactive it was. A lot of very useful learning and information’
Acorns Children’s Hospice, Enhancing Paediatric Ventilation via Tracheostomy, February 2024
‘Really enjoyable day, good refresher course, concise delivering of information’
Acorns Children’s Hospice, Enhancing Paediatric Ventilation via Tracheostomy, 2024
‘As always very well organised and fab speakers’
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Paediatric Complex Needs - MDT Communication Models and Strategies, June 2024
‘Enjoyable and informative day. Will definitely recommend to colleagues’
Paediatrics LTV Service Delivery, 2022
‘Very informative day, speakers were very knowledgeable in their areas of expertise’
Great Practice in Paediatric Long-Term Ventilation, 2021
‘I really enjoyed the discussions and breakout rooms - it was great to have such an interaction’
Great Practice in Paediatric Long-Term Ventilation, 2021
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