About this event

  • Date and time Fri 7 Feb 2025 from 8:40am to 7 Feb 2025 at 5:15pm
  • Location Royal Society of Medicine
  • Organised by Otology, Laryngology and Rhinology

Join the third ENT day for an update on the methods for maximising outcomes for our patients. These meetings offer the perfect opportunity for networking with colleagues and renowned speakers. Lunch is included when booking the morning and afternoon meetings.

Morning meeting

In the morning session we will first hear from the Chair of the TWJ Foundation and a recent recipient of a TWJ grant about the benefits of overseas fellowship experience and bringing new management philosophies back to the UK. Andrew Benyon-Phillips will describe the benefits of a unique regional complex otology forum for otologists offering increasingly diverse services at the local level. The patient benefits that this forum brings, the reassurance to both patient and surgeon knowing that a complex clinical problem has been widely discussed and a management consensus reached. Finally, the ongoing learning experience for all those involved.

We will hear about the different major European national ear audits and the impact they have had on improving patient outcome across a nation. The necessary steps required to role an audit out across a nation and the latest proposal for a UK national ear audit. James Tysome will inform the delegates about the latest NHSE changes to hearing implantation delivery across England. James is an integral member of the team devising these changes introduced to offer an equitable hearing implant service across England. The implications that these changes will have on all centres offering or hoping to offer a local hearing implant service within a strategic health authority. Not least the need to offer the most appropriate implant based on degree and type of hearing loss. We will hear from Codruta Neumann, an expert in managing chronic middle ear disease, about how to manage the chronically discharging cavity. She presents a unique and highly audit series of patients describing the evolution of her technique to improve long-term success. She focuses on the difficulties experienced and the impact those difficulties had on shaping her technique with the focus on a dry hearing ear.

After the break there will be a masterclass on the management of ear drum pathology starting with an overview of chronic Eustachian tube dysfunction from Matt Smith who is the pre-eminent clinical academic in this field. He will present his personal investigation and management algorithms that he follows to enable him to reach the correct diagnosis and most appropriate management plan.

We are fortunate to have a unique series of over 1000 patients following the management of ear drum perforation and retraction pockets. Giovanni Danesi is Europe’s most respected otologist and skull base surgeon, past president of the European Skull Base Society and President of the Italian Society of Otolaryngology. He will describe his technique for achieving remarkable success in this field. Pulling on his vast numbers, carefully audited to reveal his tips and tricks for selecting the best approach and materials to attain a healthy drum.

We will then hear about how to manage the most difficult of ear drum pathologies, myringitis. This relatively common complication of eardrum repair that frustrates all otologists and seems resistant to most treatments. Reshma Ghedia will present the management of a series of patients from the team based at Barts, London and will include insights into new medical treatments that offer hope of drying a chronically wet eardrum. Codruta Neuman will then hold all our experts to account, asking questions on areas that cause otologists most difficulty.

Finally, the morning session will finish with something completely different! Rowland White is an acclaimed and best-selling author. He has published extensively on military history and is publishing director for Michael Josephs Publishing. He has published works by Tom Clancy, Jeremy Clarkson, Clive Cussler and Andy McNab to name a few. He will give us his unique understanding of what it takes to publish a best seller and explain that there is indeed a book in us all waiting to be published.

Afternoon meeting

In the afternoon, different approaches to improving outcomes will be considered. The impact of artificial intelligence on healthcare will be significant and Professor Aldo Faisal from the department of AI and neuroscience at Imperial College will speak on this topic. He has been recently recruited as the Science and Innovation Director for Health at the Alan Turing Institute to define, develop, and deliver on its Grand Challenge on Health. His work will hopefully harness the potential of AI theory and technology in transforming health care for the UK.  

Research trials are vital in providing the evidence for our interventions. Historically the quality of such projects has been variable. A great deal of effort has been put into changing this. Mr James O’Hara, Consultant ENT Surgeon at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle and Senior Lecturer at Newcastle University has been involved in NIHR funded RCTs looking at chronic throat symptoms, adult tonsillitis, nasal surgery and laser therapy during head and neck radiotherapy. He will present on what he has learnt from his experiences. 

Professor Mahmood Bhutta is the inaugural chair of ENT at Brighton and Sussex medical schools and has a long held interest in sustainable healthcare. He has recently been involved at governmental level to take this forward alongside ENT-UK. He will address the session on his current work and reflect as to how improved outcomes can be delivered without further environmental damage.  

Finally, Ms Ann-Louise McDermott will tackle the difficult issue of how to improve outcomes for patients when the evidence for our interventions is perhaps not as complete as we would like. She will review with particular reference to paediatric rhinology.  After the break Prof Guri Sandhu Consultant ENT Surgeon at Charing Cross Hospital and Professor at Imperial College London will moderate the Laryngology Update to continue the series over the academic year.

By attending this event, you will learn:

  • How to set up a regional complex otology forum and the benefits that this holds 
  • The NHSE position on hearing implantation across England 
  • About major European ear audits and the benefits that they confer. An update on the current state of play regarding the UK ear audit 
  • To manage eardrum pathology to include European experts presenting their personal experiences that have led to incredible outcomes
  • A unique perspective on how to write and successfully publish a best-selling book from a best-selling author and publishing director
  • Speakers' personal experiences on how best to improve patient outcomes
  • Up-to-date topics from Laryngology

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Tickets

Early Bird pricing available until 27 December 2024.

Free for RSM members

Lunch is included when booking both sessions.

Member

RSM Associate
Day 1
£0.00 Morning session
£0.00 Afternoon session
RSM Fellow
Day 1
£0.00 Morning session
£0.00 Afternoon session
RSM Retired Fellow
Day 1
£0.00 Morning session
£0.00 Afternoon session
RSM Student
Day 1
£0.03 Afternoon session
£0.00 Morning session
RSM Trainee
Day 1
£0.00 Morning session
£0.00 Afternoon session

Non - Member

Consultant / GP / SAS Doctors
Day 1
£71.50 Morning session
£71.50 Afternoon session
AHP / Nurse / Midwife
Day 1
£42.00 Morning session
£42.00 Afternoon session
Trainee
Day 1
£42.00 Morning session
£42.00 Afternoon session
Student
Day 1
£22.00 Morning session
£22.00 Afternoon session

Key speakers

Professor Giovanni Danesi

Director of ENT and Neuroscience, ASST Papa Giovanni XXIII, Bergamo

Rowland White

Best-selling author and Publishing Director of Michael Josephs Publishing

Professor Aldo Faisal

Professor of AI and Neuroscience, Imperial College London, Alan Turing Science and Innovation Director for Health

Agenda

View the programme 07 February 2025

Registration, tea and coffee
Welcome and introduction, award of the Norman Gamble Prize and the Intercollegiate medal

Mr Patrick Axon, Consultant ENT Surgeon, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 

TWJ Foundation 50th anniversary - a superb resource for otology trainees past and future

Mr Martin Bailey, Executive Chairman, TWJ Foundation and Ms Carol Xie, Consultant Otologist, Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Regional Complex Otology Clinical Forums - a route for supporting colleagues and enhancing patient cares - a route for supporting colleagues and enhancing patient care

Mr Andrew Benyon-Phillips, Consultant Otologist, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King’s Lynn NHS Foundation Trust

Explaining the NHSE position - future of hearing implantation in England

Professor James Tysome, Consultant ENT Surgeon, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 

Improving outcomes through national audit - what key lessons have we learned from The Swedish Quality Register for Ear Surgery

Dr Asa Bonnard, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institute, Sweden

Mastoid obliteration - technique and outcome

Ms Codruta Neumann, Consultant ENT Surgeon, William Harvey Hospital, Ashford and Kent and Canterbury Hospital

Tea and coffee break
Moderator of Masterclass 2: Managing tympanic membrane pathology

Ms Codruta Neumann, Consultant ENT Surgeon, William Harvey Hospital, Ashford and Kent and Canterbury Hospital

How I do it: Diagnosis and management of Eustachian tube dysfunction

Mr Matthew Smith, Clinician Scientist and Senior Research Associate, University of Cambridge, Honorary ENT Surgeon, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 

How I do it: Managing ear drum pathology

Professor Giovanni Danesi, Director of ENT and Neuroscience, ASST Papa Giovanni XXIII, Bergamo

How I do it: Managing the myringitic ear drum

Ms Reshma Ghedia, ENT Specialty Trainee Year 8, North Thames Deanery

A proposal for a UK National Audit

Professor Simon Lloyd, Consultant Otologist and Skull Base Surgeon, Manchester, Professor of Otolaryngology, University of Manchester

Panel discussion

Ms Codruta Neumann, Consultant ENT Surgeon, William Harvey Hospital, Ashford and Kent and Canterbury Hospital

And now for something completely different - There is a book in all of us, my story to best selling author

Rowland White, Best-selling author and Publishing Director of Michael Josephs Publishing

Lunch
Welcome and introduction

Miss Michelle Wyatt, Consultant ENT surgeon, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust 

Benefits and potential risks of Artificial Intelligence to healthcare

Professor Aldo Faisal, Professor of AI and Neuroscience at Imperial College London, Alan Turing Science and Innovation Director for Health

Do clinical trials actually help patients?

Mr James O’Hara, Consultant ENT Surgeon, The Freeman Hospital, Newcastle, Senior Lecturer, Newcastle University

Policy and practice for environmentally sustainable healthcare : Joining the dots

Professor Mahmood Bhutta, Consultant ENT Surgeon, University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust, Inaugural Chair of ENT and Professor of Sustainable Healthcare, Brighton and Sussex Medical School

Paediatric rhinology: Challenges and barriers to improving outcomes

Ms Ann Louise McDermott, Consultant Paediatric Otolaryngologist, Birmingham Children's Hospital

Tea and coffee break
Update in laryngology

Chair:

Professor Guri Sandhu, Consultant ENT Surgeon, Charing Cross Hospital, Professor at Imperial College London

Topics:

Update on Inducible Laryngeal Obstruction, Laryngeal Leukoplakia, Phonotrauma, Muscle tension dysphagia

 

Panel discussion
Closing remarks
Close of meeting

Location

Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole St, Marylebone, London, W1G 0AE, United Kingdom

Registration for this event will close on 6 February 2025 at 1:00am (GMT). Late registrations will not be accepted.

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