Programme highlights include the National Wound Care Strategy, Legs Matter Awareness Week, Who are the industry regulators?, Care of the high risk foot, Device related pressure ulcers and the 4th Wounds Research Network (WReN) Scientific Meeting.

The BBA has seen generations of professionals with a passion for burn care. The theme this year – ‘Passing the Torch’ – invites delegates to consider how best to train and enthuse future colleagues and successors to ever better achievements and standards of care.

The Charing Cross Symposium raises vascular and endovascular controversies so that a world-class faculty challenges the available evidence in order to reach a consensus after discussion with an expert audience. This forms a three-year cycle. Challenges will be discussed in 2019.

Wound Care Today 2019 offers delegates a unique learning platform to enhance their delivery of care through clinical updated, personal development, practical learning zones and networking in a friendly and open environment.

The SWUK Regional Education Day will concentrate on preparing for a burns mass casualty incident.

The event will cover initial assessment and management of burns in in a mass casualty incident, smoke inhalation, intensive care (the first 24 – 48 hours), Paediatric issues, implications for plastic surgery and more.

The Wounds UK Annual Conference will contain over 17 hours of fresh clinical content. Under the theme ‘Integrated strategies and solutions for quality outcomes’ the plenary sessions will update attendees on the latest clinical opinion, research and policy around the UK.

The Foot in Diabetes UK Group (FDUK) will also be running a full-day diabetic foot masterclass.

The College of Podiatry expects over 1,300 podiatrists, 100 speakers and over 75 exhibiting companies to attend their annual conference in Bournemouth this year.

By providing a fresh and diverse educational programme packed full with renowned scientific speakers, specialist concurrent sessions and skills-based workshops, the conference will keep attendees up to date with the very latest scientific research, innovations, and clinical & business skills that they can take back to their workplace.

The Combined Services Plastic Surgery Society annual meeting will be taking place on Thursday 11 October 2018. The venue this year will be The Royal Citadel, Plymouth.

The meeting is an academic gathering of military plastic surgeons, to ensure that the speciality remains up to date with current research being undertaken by military plastic surgery staff, and to encourage the development of the military ethos.