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2019’s PLAN Annual Scientific Meeting will take place at the Chancellor’s Hall, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU on Thursday 27th June 2019 and is open to all trainees and consultants in Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine within London.

This year, the topic is “How to Plan a Project” and will provide you with the knowledge you need to design, implement, report and publish your ideas for projects ranging from small yet vitally important single department quality improvement (QI) projects through to multi-centre national studies.

As ever, this event is hosted by the Pan-London Perioperative Audit and Research Network (PLAN) and supported by Health Education England. It will comprise exciting keynote talks by renowned experts, an opportunity for all London Trainees to present their research, audit or QI projects to a regional audience as well as updates from the leads of recent PLAN projects and the annual PLAN project selection event.

To register, please use the link in the top menu.

Speakers

We are delighted to reveal the keynote speakers for this year as:

Dr. Carolyn Johnston

Consultant anaesthetist at St. George's University Hospitals and Chair of the RCoA Quality Improvement Working Group. She covers general sessions with speciality interest in obstetrics, interested in both improving quality in her clinical environments of pre-assessment clinic, operating theatres and in maternity and also training in QI. (click to expand)

Professor Andrew Klein

Consultant cardiothoracic anaesthetist at the Royal Papworth Hospital and Editor-in-Chief of Anaesthesia. Prof. Klein also sits on the Board and Council of the Association of Anaesthetists as well as the NIAA. (click to expand)

Professor Ramani Moonesinghe

Consultant Anaesthetist at University College London Hospitals and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine. Prof. Moonesinghe is also Director of the NIAA's Health Services Research Centre and the Surgical Outcomes Research Centre. (click to expand)

Professor Jaideep Pandit

Consultant anaesthetist at the Oxford University Hospitals and Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford. Prof. Pandit is a member of the Research Council of the NIAA, Scientific Officer of the Difficult Airway Society and was the Clinical Lead of NAP5 investigating awareness under general anaesthesia. (click to expand)

Abstracts

We are currently inviting submission of abstracts for the event on any project that you have undertaken within your hospitals within the specialties of Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine. Submission is open for all London trainees.

We are inviting abstracts describing projects related to original research, audit, quality improvement, surveys and case reports, however any abstract of relevance to the general anaesthetist will also be considered.

Abstract submission is now closed for the 2019 Meeting.
Six high-quality abstracts have been selected for oral presentation at the Meeting. Please see the Programme for further details.

PLAN Project Selection

The next PLAN London-wide collaborative project will also be chosen at the event. Following shortlisting of three proposals, the project leads will be invited to present their proposed project to the audience at the Meeting. Following all presentations, the winning project will be decided by audience voting with the winner announced on the day. Full details of the project selection process can be found here.

Project submission for 2019 is now closed.

Workshops

Several highly interactive workshop sessions will also be run. They will be broadly structured around the following themes but these are highly flexible, so if a topic you are interested in is not covered, please ask!

How to develop a Trial?
A broad overview of the things to consider when setting up a trial, including who to contact, how to set up a steering group, overview of R&D/IRAS/HRA/REC, external agencies that can help (CRNs, R&D design service, PCPIE), principles of trial design, practical tips on getting funding, engaging investigators and heading off common problems.

How to conduct Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses?
The appeal of these projects is that they can often be run without external funding or ethics/R&D approval, however their methodology is often complex and daunting. Join us to unravel to mysteries of these projects that are considered to be the highest form of evidence available for a particular intervention.

Quality Improvement (QI) Methodology
The overall aim of all research in the health services is to improve the care delivered to patients. In this workshop, we will discuss exactly how this improvement is performed, including how to get ‘buy-in’ from your department and how to measure whether your intervention has had an effect.