Principal sponsor

Principal sponsor

As we reach a decade of conferences from The Diabetic Foot Journal, it is clear
that the need for integrated diabetes foot care is greater than ever. A foot ulcer
is a serious diabetes complication but is also much more. It is a marker for death,
disability and advanced diabetes complications throughout the whole of the person
with diabetes, and not just in the feet. This year’s conference will help everyone who
treats diabetes patients with foot problems, or manages services, to take a broader,
more holistic view of healing ulceration and improving the lives of our patients.
Matthew Young, Programme Director
Day one
Conference programme
09.00 – 09.30
09.30 – 10.30
10.30 – 11.00
11.00 – 11.15
11.15 – 11.45
Conference registration
Xelma – A new innovation in diabetic foot ulcer treatment, a symposium sponsored by Mölnlycke Healthcare
Registration, coffee and exhibition viewing
Conference chair’s introduction and welcome
Session 1
What do you need to know about organising diabetes foot services?
• How do people with diabetic foot problems present, and who should look after them?
• Referral pathways with seamless integration: how to achieve them?
• The interface between primary and secondary care
• Documentation and communication
Matthew Young, Consultant Physician, Edinburgh
11.45 – 12.30
12.30 – 13.45
Parallel track 1 (Generalist track):
Screening and assessment – where next?
• Risk classification and subsequent care pathways
• Classifying ulcers as a tool for management
Anne Scott, Diabetes Lead Nurse, Ipswich
Lunch and exhibition viewing
Session 2
Parallel track 2 (Advanced practice track): Diabetic
foot patients in hospitals – inpatient management
• Applying the national consensus document
Gerry Rayman, Consultant Physician, Ipswich
13.45 – 14.15
Progress report from the Foot Action Group 2009
• What the Scottish Diabetes Group is doing for the diabetic foot
• Looking at screening, specialist services and the way forward in Scotland
Duncan Stang, National Diabetes Foot Co-ordinator, East Kilbride
14.15 – 15.00
15.00 – 15.30
15.30 – 16.15
16.15 – 17.00
Parallel track 3 (Generalist track):
What goes wrong with the foot and what
to do about it?
• Prevention of ulceration, re-ulceration
and amputations
• What you can do to try to prevent foot
problems, and when to refer on
Roger Gadsby, GP and Associate Clinical
Professor, Warwick
Tea and exhibition viewing
Session 3
The Sixth Annual Diabetic Foot Journal Lecture 2009
William Jeffcoate, Consultant Endocrinologist, Nottingham
Satellite symposium
Parallel track 4 (Advanced practice track): Advanced
diabetes podiatrist – A competency framework
• A recognition of specialist podiatrists in diabetes
• Examining core competencies
Joanne McCardle, Advanced Acute Diabetes
Podiatrist, Edinburgh

Day two
Conference programme continued
09.30 – 10.30
10.30 – 11.00
11.00 – 11.30
Morning symposium
Coffee and exhibition viewing
Session 4
What you need to know about research and audit in practice
• Performing research and audit
• Interpreting research and audit articles
• Implementing research and audit in practice
Matthew Young, Consultant Physician, Edinburgh
11.30 – 12.15
12.15 – 13.30
13.30 – 14.00
14.00 – 14.45
Parallel track 5 (Generalist track):
Principles of wound care
• Principles applied to managing foot ulceration
• Dressings, debridement and offloading
Lynne Watret, Tissue Viability Nurse, Glasgow
Lunch and exhibition viewing
Session 5
Care of the patient with a major amputation
• When is an amputation required?
• Keeping track of patients after surgery
• Rehabilitation
Speaker to be confirmed
Parallel track 7 (Generalist track):
How to develop yourself
• The national competency set for diabetic foot care,
from screeners to consultants
• CPD portfolios and how to keep them up to date
Alistair McInnes,
Senior Lecturer Podiatry, Brighton and
Matthew Young,
Consultant Physician, Edinburgh
Parallel track 6 (Advanced practice track):
Management of diabetic foot infection
• Signs and symptoms of infection in diabetic foot
patients
• Interpreting biochemical reports
• Antibiotic policy in the age of MRSA and
Clostridium difficile
Andrew Seaton, Consultant in Infectious Diseases and
General Medicine, Glasgow
Parallel track 8 (Advanced practice track):
What is going on with the rest of your patient?
• Autonomic neuropathy
• Gastroparesis, postural hypotension, impotence
• Physiology, including interpreting test reports
and pharmacology
• Glucose control – its relationship with foot problems
• Levels, standards and treatments – physiology
and pharmacology
• Using the newer drugs for diabetes care
Donald Pearson, Consultant Diabetologist, Aberdeen
14.45 – 15.15
15.15 – 16.00
Tea and exhibition viewing
Session 6
Illness behaviours and chronic care
• Depression, despair and educational barriers
• How having diabetes, neuropathy and foot ulceration stops people from changing their behaviour; can we
improve this?
Robby Steel, Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry, Edinburgh

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A competency framework
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Management of diabetic
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