BACCH Annual Scientific Meeting 2024
View Website → | 9 October 09:00 - 10 October 16:30 - In Person|Virtual Event |
Putting children first: building future services
Come and join us in Glasgow for BACCH’s flagship national conference, plus annual dinner and dance.
Programme
Talks (all delegates):
Weds 9th Oct | Thurs 10th Oct |
Compassion at the centre of care (Sir Al Aynsley-Green) | Prioritising early childhood to promote the nation’s health, wellbeing & prosperity (Professor Helen Minnis) |
Autism: the great debate – diagnosis versus intervention (Amanda Allard, Professor Jeremy Parr & Dr Catherine Tuffrey) | Developing Advanced Clinical Nurse roles & the future of Community Child Health services (Gillian Middleditch & Dr Kim Blackwell) |
Improving health & reducing inequalities in children’s health (Dr Ian Sinner & Dr Helen Stewart) | Diagnosing learning disability in children – opening doors for support (Dr Sophie Carter) |
3 x oral abstract presentations – details to follow in Sept | 5 x oral abstract presentations – details to follow in Sept |
Workshops (in-person delegates only):
Held after lunch, in-person delegates attend 2 sessions on each day – full timings to follow:
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- Advance care planning for young people with life limiting conditions
- Autism & Girls: Advances in assessment and diagnosis
- Lessons for the UK: the national neurodevelopmental specification and practice framework for Scotland
- Compassionate care
- Down Syndrome (topic tbc)
- Functional hearing loss: why does it happen and what we can do to help
- How to involve bereaved parents in child death reviews
- A practical approach to FASD assessments
- Moral injustice & moral distress in community paediatrics
- Neuro-affirmative assessment & practice
- Public Health for trainees
- CSAC: Training (topic tbc)
Abstract submissions for oral and poster presentations are invited: deadline 11 August.