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IN-PERSON EVENT, hosted by Hospitals Group Wessex Division 

What to expect

This regional event allows junior staff to present on local projects, audits and research covering a variety of topics across multiple dental specialties. Our guest speaker, Professor Peter Brennan, Consultant Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon in Portsmouth will cover two sessions 'Human factors' and 'How to get published'.

The day includes refreshments and a buffet lunch.

Timings

08:45 Registration 

09:00 Introduction and welcome

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Afternoon presentations

16:00 Close

Learning objectives

  • Update knowledge on various clinical cases and oral conditions
  • Update on Wessex regional hospital clinical improvement projects
  • Pick up tips on writing a publication for your CV
  • Understand and appreciate the importance of human factors and teamwork in our clinical practice.

Development outcomes

A, B, C and D

Abstracts

We welcome applications from all regional staff who wish to present , please send a short abstract (max 150 words) along with the following details, name, grade and hospital base to Annabel Wheatley

Closing date for abstracts Friday 7 March 2025 at 17:00.

Meet the speaker

Peter Brennan 250X250 Professor Peter Brennan Consultant Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon in Portsmouth

A Consultant Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon in Portsmouth, specialising in head and neck oncology. He also has a personal chair for his research and education achievements, with over 840 publications to date, and more than 90 on patient safety and human factors. He is a committed trainer and educator, collaborating across specialties and disciplines. Peter won the Association of Surgeons in Training (ASiT) 2022 Silver Scalpel Award – the most prestigious accolade across all 10 UK surgical specialties for excellence in training. He has edited eight OMFS specialty textbooks and is Lead Editor of Gray’s Surgical Anatomy which has received widespread acclaim around the world.

Peter is interested in human factors (HF) and patient safety, and has established unique collaborations with airline pilots, National Air Traffic Services (NATS) and the Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team (Red Arrows). His work improves practice across surgical and medical specialties and includes reducing hierarchy, enhancing team working and raising awareness of many personal factors to reduce medical error. In 2019, he was awarded a PhD entitled ‘Applying HF to Improve Patient Safety.’

He receives many invitations to speak from local to international level about HF and works with the Royal Colleges, GMC and others to help improve patient safety and better team working. Peter promotes and champions equality women in surgery and dentistry and supports and empowers trainees and SAS grades at every opportunity.

More information

Please email [email protected] with any dietary requirements.

Access the event flyer here and share with your colleagues.

If you feel at all unwell, we encourage you to take a lateral flow test the evening before you are due to arrive - should your test result be positive, we ask you not to attend.

If your test is negative, but you do have symptoms of COVID-19 (a new, persistent cough; a high temperature; or loss/changes to your sense of taste or smell) we kindly request you consider not attending the event to mitigate any risk to other attendees.

The Wessex Team moved from Southern House to Explorer House, Southampton in June 2023. The full address for visitors is 

Explorer House

Adanac Drive

Southampton

Hampshire SO16 0AS

 

Venue location

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Excellent presentations and case reports. Very interesting and informative.

Presentations were well researched, clearly presented and on interesting topics.