Beyond 2012: How sport and exercise medicine can improve the health of your patients

Thursday 29 November 2012

Venue: Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, LONDON, W1G 0AE

A joint meeting with the General Practice with Primary Health Care Section

***Fully booked***

This meeting is now fully booked and we are operating a waiting list. Should you wish to be added to the list please contact Gemma Lamb on 020 7290 3856.


The Section of General Practice with Primary Healthcare and Section of Sport & Exercise Medicine would like to invite you to attend this one day interactive lecture.

The aim of the day will be to promote the importance of exercise and sports medicine to both primary and secondary care health professionals in working effectively together to provide quality care.

At the end of the meeting, delegates will be able to:
1. Describe the current burden of physical inactivity in society and state the risks associated with a physically inactive lifestyle.
2. Explain the role of exercise in the primary, secondary and tertiary prevention of a range of important disease states.
3. Discuss the basics of exercise prescription.
4. Formulate a prescription for exercise, incorporating strategies to facilitate sustained behaviour change
5. List possible complications arising from several common musculoskeletal injuries seen in a primary care sporting population, including knee and ankle injuries, and recognise when to refer to secondary care.
6. Describe the modern evidence based approach to the Primary Care management of common sports medicine problems.
7. Explain the role of imaging in Primary Care as part of the assessment of musculoskeletal injuries and recognise when to use imaging effectively in the primary care assessment of injuries in sport.


***Special offer***

The Organisers would like to offer half price places to any Nurse who books onto the lecture at the same time as a GP from their practice. This offer is NOT available online and can only be redeemed by contacting the Event Co-ordinator to request a booking form. The rates are as follows:

Early bird rate:
GP + Nurse = £135 (reduced from £170)

Standard rate:
GP + Nurse = £162.50 (reduced from £205)

Please note that you must book both delegates at the same time and they must be from the same practice.