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Programme

08:15 - 09:00 Registration and refreshments

Plenary session 1: 09:00 - 10:30

Secondary Fracture Prevention: Fracture Liaison Service

Chairs:

  • Dr Inderpal Singh, National Clinical Lead, Bone Health, NHS Wales Performance and Improvement
  • Professor Meng Khaw, National Director, Health Protection and Screening Services, Executive Medical Director, Public Health Wales
09:00 

Opening address

Professor Isabel Oliver, Chief Medical Officer, Wales

09:10 Patients' voice - lived experience
09:20

No more broken bone, no more broken lives – the time is now

Craig Jones, Chief Executive, the Royal Osteoporosis Society 

09:30

Quality care for all: Delivering the Welsh Government’s Quality Statement for Osteoporosis 

Dr Inderpal Singh, National Clinical Lead, Bone Health, NHS Wales Performance and Improvement

09:45

FLS from a service provider perspective 

Associate Professor Rafael Pinedo-Villanueva, Senior Health Economist, Head, Health Economics and Outcomes Research group, University of Oxford

10:00

Fracture prevention for hip fracture patients - it needs to be done and it can be done

Professor Antony Johansen, Clinical Lead NHFD, Royal College of Physicians, London

10:15

Fracture prevention for other fracture patients

Professor Kassim Javaid, Clinical Lead FLS-DB, Royal College of Physicians, London
10:30

Panel discussion

Themes: FLS business case / National Osteoporosis ROS Standard

11:00 - 11:20 Refreshments and networking

Plenary session 2: 11:20 - 12:50

Primary Fracture Prevention: Implementing Quality Statement for Osteoporosis and Bone Health

Chairs:

  • Dr Sunil Nedungayil, Senior Clinical Lead, Falls and Fragility Fracture Audit Programme (FFFAP), RCP London
  • Dr Dom Hurford, Executive Medical Director, Cwm Taf Morgannwg UHB, Chair of the All-Wales Medical Directors Group, Chair of the Strategic Clinical Network for MSK in Wales
11:20

Preventing falls and fractures in dementia

Professor Tahir Masud, Nottingham Hospitals NHS Trust / President, European Geriatric Medicine Society 

11:35

What are the high-risk groups we could target for primary fracture prevention using what we already know?

Professor Eugene McCloskey, Professor of Adult Bone Diseases, University of Sheffield, and Director of the Medical Research Council Versus Arthritis Centre for Integrated Research into Musculoskeletal Ageing

11:50

Fit after fifty - Bone health before, during and after the menopause 

Dr Helen Munro, consultant in sexual and reproductive healthcare / National Clinical Lead for Women’s Health 

12:05

Focused on public health: Role of bone health in context of other long-term conditions in adults 

Professor Tracy Daszkiewicz PrFPH, Executive Director of Public Health ABUHB and President of the Faculty of Public Health, UK

12:20

Panel discussion

12:50 - 13:30 Lunch and networking

Plenary session 3: 13:30 - 14:40

Promoting Bone Health: Professional development and education

Chairs:

  • Dr Karl Davis, Consultant Geriatrician, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff / Chair British Geriatrics Society, Wales
  • Dr Andrew Lansdown, Consultant Endocrinology, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff / Regional RCP Advisor, Wales
13:30

Professional Leadership Enabling Reliable, High-Quality Care

Richard Desir, Nursing Officer, Welsh Government  

13:45

Delivering effective FLS: Challenges today, opportunities tomorrow - CNS perspective

Elvie Varghese, Bone Health Nurse Specialist, Betsi Cadwaladr UHB    
Mariyal Devaraj, Bone Health Nurse Specialist, Cardiff and Vale UHB

13:55

Strengthening FLS delivery: The impact of a dedicated pharmacist and what comes next

Gavin Rose, Lead Divisional Pharmacist, Aneurin Bevan UHB

14:05

Education Programme for Patients (EPP) Cymru: Building resilient and resourceful communities across Wales

Christine Roach, Self-Management Programme Lead, NHS Wales Performance and Improvement  
Jules Godden, Academy Training Manager, NHS Wales Performance and Improvement  

14:15

Optimising DXA service delivery: Challenges and pathways for improvement

Dr Rosemary Hollick, Consultant Rheumatologist, University of Aberdeen

14:30

Streamlining the COTE–Rheumatology interface for high risk fractures

Dr Ceril Rhys-Dillon, Consultant Rheumatologist, Cwm Taf Morgannwg UHB / National Clinical Lead Rheumatology, Wales 

14:40 -15:00 Refreshments and networking

Plenary session 4: 15:00 - 16:15

Optimising Bone Health: High value impact

Chairs:

  • Dr Helen Howson, Director Bevan Commission
  • Professor Kassim Javaid, Clinical Lead FLS-DB, Royal College of Physicians, London
15:00

The value of FLS – Welsh value perspective

Professor Chris Brown, Director of the Welsh Value in Health Centre

15:15

Advancing bone health value across Wales: Integrating executive leadership and primary care impact

Leanne Watkins, Chief Operating Officer, Aneurin Bevan UHB

15:30

Adopt and Spread programme: Value-based implementation of fragility fracture case identification

Dr Tom Howson, Head of Innovation and Transformation, Bevan Commission

15:40

Empowering tomorrow’s clinicians: Students and residents learning together

Avtar Singh, Resident doctor, Aneurin Bevan UHB
Pritika Anthonypillai, medical student, Cardiff University  

15:50 Panel discussion
16:25

Acknowledgements

Collect CPD ceritificates

16:30 Close