Programme

Please click here for this years draft programme

Conference delegates will be required to choose breakout sessions on registration. This will be given on a first come first served basis with a maximum of 30 in each. Some sessions will run more than once to accommodate more delegates being able to attend.

Throughout the day there will be a mixture of speakers, skills workshops, development sessions and the opportunity to network.

There will also be an exhibition area of stands featuring companies, organisations, and local NHS trusts.

Confirmed speakers for 2019

Chair and Keynote - Professor Mary Lovegrove OBE, Director of Allied Health Solutions

Education, Training and Deployment of Operating Department Practitioners

Health Education England commissioned Allied Health Solutions to undertake a study into the education, training and deployment of Operating Department Practitioners. The author will share the findings from this study.

Keynote - Professor Stephen Wordsworth, Dean of School Education, Health and Social Care, University College, Birmingham

What is the role of the regulator, and how does the HCPC impact upon the recruitment and retention of ODPs?

This session will explore the impact of statutory regulation on the ODP profession. To begin to explore this in more detail, the purpose and role of the HCPC is explained, and the impact of processes and standards on the ODP are considered. Finally trends and data will be used to examine the implications for recruitment and retention of ODPs.

Keynote - Mike Donnellon - Chair Education and Standards Committee, CODP and Senior Lecturer, University of Central Lancashire

Impact of the Health Education Funding reforms on Operating Department Practice Education

When introduced in 2017, it was envisaged that the reforms would create additional student places on pre-registration healthcare programmes, improve the quality and reduce the attrition rates on these programmes. In reality, applications for AHP (including ODP) and Nursing programmes have fallen by 32%. In this presentation, Mike examines the impact of the reforms on ODP programmes and examines what the future might hold for ODP pre-registration education and workforce planning.

Developing the next generation of ODPs

Elaine Buckley - Interim Assistant Dean Academic Development, Sheffield Hallam University, former Chair of the Health and Care Professions Council

The session will explore the clinical educator role in developing the next generation of practitioners, focusing on the area of professionalism and the potential challenges of supporting students to become practitioners. Also reflect on how positive role models in practice may contribute to a reduction in fitness to practice cases in the future.

Keith Miller - Medical Microbiologist, Biosciences, Sheffield Hallam University

Keith will discuss research into the development of specialist antimicrobial dressings for infected wounds , the research process itself and the impact that research has on practice.

The role of the ODP in the critical care environment

Giles Farrington - Senior ODP, York Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Discussing the widening role of the ODP outside of the operating theatre and how we can expand into these roles using skills already developed in the peri-operative environment. Define what critical care is and the role we already play in the provision of critical care to our patients

Advanced Clinical Practice (ACP) and Medical Associate Professions (MAP), Opportunities and Challenges for ODPs

Sarah Anderson, Advanced Clinical Practitioner in Trauma and Orthopaedics, Hull Royal Infirmary, & Joanna Finney, trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner in Emergency Medicine, Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow

Introduction, explanation and discussion of Advanced Clinical Practice and Medical Associate Professions: Physician Assistant Anaesthesia (PAA), Physician Associate (PA), Advanced Critical Care Practitioner (ACCP) and Surgical Care Practitioner (SCP).

Managing Stress

Efua Hagan, Practice Development ODP, King's College London NHS Foundation Trust

Stress is all around us all the time and how we manage it can also have an impact on not only how we work, but think and also function. This session will cover signs and also management.

Health and Social Care: School and College's Engagement

Belle Fletcher, Schools and Colleges Engagement Coordinator, Sheffield Hallam University

The session will involve a presentation showcasing some of the key activities we deliver in schools and colleges, to educate and hopefully inspire young people to study a health and social care courses, particularly ODP within higher education.

Promoting Operating Department Practitioners as Leaders

Adele Nightingale, Senior Lecturer in Healthcare Leadership, University of Central Lancashire

This workshop will explore the existing evidence base focusing on Operating Department Practitioners as leaders and ODP leadership. It will not look at leadership and management theories, but will address why ODPs need to be motivated to be leaders. The workshop will aim to understand the term leadership and the importance of empowering ODPs to lead.

Craig Griffiths Senior Lecturer and PIPCast Host

Starting With Why – Leadership and Recruitment in the NHS

Using lessons from the Start with Why TED talk, this talk will talk about the fundamental step to good leadership and recruitment for you and your department.

Events at the conference

Marketplace - Meet our reps, companies, sponsors and trusts

Competition Time- Get your passport stamped for your chance to win a trip to the VIVIT experience - https://www.thevivitexperience.co.uk/

Giant Operation - Have a go on our giant operation board

PIPCast- Recordings of the day by the Podcast team

Thoughts tree - help create our tree of knowledge - add a leafy idea about how we might recruit, retain and promote ODP and perioperative practice

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