Mon 20 May 2024 09:00-16:15
Online Conference, 6 CPD Hours

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.

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Standardising Paediatric Long-Term Non-Invasive Ventilation
Online 6 CPD hours From £299+VAT

6 hours Continuing Professional Development: what you will learn

Gain confidence in the complexity of Long-Term NIV. This online event is your opportunity to refresh your expertise, join us for a series of expert-led sessions and interactive discussions to equip you with a confident understanding of how to support children using NIV. Here’s what you can expect to cover:

  • Streamlining paediatric complex discharge from hospital to home using NIV
  • Achieving comfort and compliance for CYP: standardising mask fitting 
  • Best practice guidance for optimising ventilator settings for CYP
  • Enhancing consent and compliance to ensure NIV success for CYP
  • Exploring the ethical decision-making process in paediatric NIV
  • Collaborating on regular reassessment and home monitoring to reduce reliance on NIV

Developed with convenience in mind: join this online forum remotely

This online event is designed with convenience in mind, bringing together Children’s Community and Hospice Nurses from across the country for a dynamic, interactive experience. You’ll benefit from:

  • Meeting and networking: Engage with your peers in breakout rooms by turning on your video and microphone for real-time discussions
  • Expert presentations: Watch and listen to experts in your field, followed by Q&A sessions
  • Interactive sessions: Participate in facilitated group discussions on hot topics in breakout rooms
  • Spotlight talks: innovative NIV mask design and first-hand perspectives from a family using NIV

Join us and make this a productive, collaborative day of learning.

9:00
Registration, technical support and networking opportunity
9:30
Introduction, instructions and chair’s opening remarks
Lee Richardson, Home Ventilation Nurse, Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust
Navigating paediatric complex discharge from hospital to home
9:40
Streamlining paediatric complex discharge home for CYP using NIV
  • Collaborating and communicating across multi-disciplinary teams during CYP discharge
  • Interpreting and implementing care packages in the community
  • Navigating discharge summaries and assessing healthcare needs post-discharge
10:10
Questions and answers with your speaker
10:20
Interactive discussion: Exploring commissioning and funding models for Paediatric NIV
  • How do you currently collaborate with the Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) to ensure that paediatric NIV services are accessible for the children you care for?
  • Describe any challenges you’ve encountered in navigating the commissioning and funding process for paediatric NIV within your local ICB and how you overcame them
  • Share a situation where a child required NIV but didn’t meet the funding threshold. How did you manage that care, and what resources were available?
10:35
Feedback from interactive discussion: Exploring commissioning and funding models for Paediatric NIV
10:45
Screen break
Improving the use of Non-Invasive Ventilation
11:05
How to improve and standardise mask fitting in home settings to ensure comfort and compliance
  • Examining practical strategies for improving mask fitting for children
  • Utilising patient and family involvement in mask choice and desensitisation techniques
  • Adjusting masks to minimise the risk of pressure ulcers and ensure comfort and compliance
11:35
Questions and answers with your speaker
11:45
Best practice guidance for optimising ventilator settings for children and young people
  • Understanding the importance of adjusting ventilator settings to improve patient compliance
  • Identifying the triggers leading to leaks or discomfort: practical aspects of setting rise time, trigger sensitivity and leak prevention
  • Reassessing the relationship between rise time, breath timing and patient comfort
Innovation within Non-Invasive Ventilation
12:15
Spotlight talk: Utilising automated design to create patient specific NIV masks for children
  • Discover how automated design can revolutionise the development of face masks by providing customisation for young infants and children
Dr Connor Myant, Senior Lecturer, Imperial College London
12:25
Questions and answers with your speakers
12:35
Lunch break
Enhancing patient outcomes and quality of life
1:05
Improving consent and compliance to ensure NIV success for CYP
  • Understanding the psychological and familial factors influencing NIV compliance
  • Engaging and educating families and carers to improve adherence to ventilation
  • Case studies: overcoming the challenges of improving compliance for mask wearing
1:35
Spotlight talk: Discovering a real-world perspective: learning from families, carers and children
  • Hear first-hand the impact of NIV on family life and how HCPs can provide effective and proactive support
1:45
Exploring the importance of ethical decision making in paediatric NIV
  • Navigating collaborative decision-making processes within paediatrics: autonomy vs. parental authority
  • Communicating decision-making: exploring the Four-Box Method and improvement strategies
  • Ethical considerations for discontinuing long-term ventilation in children and young people
2:15
Questions and answers with your speaker
2:25
Interactive discussion: How to support CYP to improve their quality of life
  • What are the most important aspects of long-term care for children and young people with NIV that can contribute to sustained well-being and quality of life?
  • Share a success story or best practice that you have experienced or seen in your work that have notably improved the quality of life for CYP
2:40
Feedback from interactive discussion: How to support CYP to improve their quality of life
2:50
Screen break
How to achieve successful NIV
3:10
Regular reassessment and home monitoring: collaborating to get children off Long-Term NIV
  • Understanding the importance of regular follow-ups and monitoring of clinical condition
  • Utilising monitoring of CO2 levels, reassessment protocols and data for improving care
  • Achieving successful NIV for CYP and their families: what can this look like for individuals?
3:40
Questions and answers with your speaker
Enhancing transition to adult services
3:50
Interactive discussion: Addressing the challenges faced when transitioning children from paediatric NIV care to adult services
  • How well do paediatric and adult services collaborate when it comes to transitioning children with NIV needs? Are there any gaps in communication or care handover?
  • How do you address the concerns of young adults who may be hesitant or resistant to moving from paediatric to adult services? What strategies have worked well for you in easing this transition?
  • How do you help families navigate the shift in expectations and autonomy as children move into adult services, particularly when it comes to decision-making around their NIV care?
4:05
Feedback from interactive discussion: Addressing the challenges faced when transitioning children from paediatric NIV care to adult services
4:15
Chair's closing remarks and close of conference

Call for speakers

If you would like to give a presentation and share your work or the work of your service at this online conference, we would be delighted to hear from you.

To discuss speaking opportunities please email the conference producer Lara Etheridge or call Lara on 01732 897788.

Confirmed speaker to-date:


Job Title:
Home Ventilation Nurse
Organisation
Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust
Biography

Job Title:
Senior Lecturer
Organisation
Imperial College London
Biography

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.


Job Title:
Home Ventilation Nurse
Organisation
Sheffield Children’s NHS Trust
Biography

Pricing structure

  • £299 + VAT (each) for two or more NHS or public sector places
  • £399 + VAT for one NHS or public sector place
  • £599 + VAT for one commercial organisation place

You or a colleague can claim the group 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 contact our delegate support team for further details:

enquiries@sbk-healthcare.co.uk

01732 897788

Commercial companies are also invited to sponsor this day, please email Vanessa Pearce for further details.

If your funding has not yet been secured or you would like to hold your place with no obligation, you can reserve your place with us. Please email the reservations team at SBK Healthcare with your details:

  • Booking contact: name, job title, department, email and telephone number
  • Event(s) to reserve for: title and date
  • Delegate details (for each delegate): name, job title, department, email and telephone number
  • Organisation details: name and address

Alternatively you can make a confirmed booking by emailing the above information to the bookings team 

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 conference 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 conference.

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 and you will be sent an invitation to join one of our delegate practice sessions. These are optional but great if you are unsure of whether your camera and microphone will work on Zoom. We hold several one hour practice sessions across the week when a member of SBK Healthcare staff will be waiting in Zoom to assist you. Please do pop in, say hello and make sure you are all set for the day.

On the day, when registration starts, you will be able to join the conference by initially entering a waiting room when there may be a short wait. When you are automatically brought back into the conference room for the start of the conference, you will be asked to turn off your camera and microphone so that the chair can start the forum. During each presentation you will be able to ask questions in the chat box function. The forum will include screen breaks, as well as topic themed interactive sessions which will take place in the breakout rooms.

Click here to view the specially created 5-minute video that will walk you through how to get the most out of attending your SBK Healthcare interactive online forum.

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

This engaging online event is ideal for NHS professionals working with children on Long-Term Non-Invasive Ventilation in Community and Hospice Services. This includes but is not limited to:

  • Children Community Nurses and Community Paediatricians
  • Children Hospice Nurses
  • Home Ventilation Teams
  • Matrons

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

View further comments on SBK Healthcare events on Trust Pilot.

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 events 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.

Interested in having your own event, managed by us?

SBK Healthcare also provides in-house forums. Working closely with you as the client we can research, produce, market and deliver the conference or online forum that best suits the audience and meets your goals.

Reach out today

If you would like more information on our sponsorship options an in-house forum or if you wish to discuss your needs and what solutions may be appropriate for your business, please contact: 

Vanessa Pearce 

Contact: 01732 897788 

Email: vanessa.pearce@sbk-healthcare.co.uk