RCN and NaTHNaC 7th Joint Travel Health Conference
Travel Health 2024
23 Mar 2024, 09:00 - 15:45
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Booking for this event is now closed.
Overseas travel has resumed following the pandemic.
Education for all health professionals working in travel health continues to be important, as the profiles of travellers and the risks to which they may be exposed change and new prevention strategies, including travel vaccines, enter the market. The travel health consultation is becoming increasingly complex, requiring health professionals working in this space, to stay up to date when giving advice.
Join us at this informative one-day conference, have your questions answered by experts and gain access to current evidence-based research and education in the field that is crucial for patient health and safety while abroad.
Learning outcomes:
At the end of this conference, delegates will be able to:
• Discover the latest research and evidence in the field, to enable best practice.
• Get up to date with information on the latest travel-related vaccines.
• Stay abreast of new challenges and resources in travel health.
Who should attend?
The conference will appeal to all healthcare practitioners involved in delivering travel health services to travellers from the UK, including nurses, physicians, pharmacists, and allied professionals.
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Please note these programme details and timings are subject to change. A final programme will be circulated prior to the event.
9.00 Explore conference platform and virtual networking
9.15 Chairs’ opening remarks Sandra Grieve, RCN Public Health Forum and Dr Vanessa Field, Deputy Director, NaTHNaC
9.25 Polio – how near are we to eradication? Aidan O’Leary, Director of Polio Eradication, World Health Organization
10.05 Preparing the Traveller with Diabetes Professor Gerard Flaherty, Professor of Travel Medicine and International Health, University of Galway
10.45 Comfort break and virtual networking
11.00 Dengue and Chikungunya for the travel specialist: what you need to know Dr Mike Ankcorn, Consultant in Virology and Infectious Diseases, Sheffield Teaching Hospital
11.40 Dengue and Qdenga Lucy Mildren and Becky Arrell, Travel Nurses, Fleet Street Clinic
12.20 Lunch and virtual networking
13.00 Zika – changing risk 2019-2023 Dr Philip Veal, Consultant Epidemiologist/Public Health Medicine, UKHSA
13.40 Cruise ship health - how to stay healthy Carole Tracey, Course Co-Director Professional Development Certificate (PDC) in travel medicine, RCPSG
14.20 Comfort break and virtual networking
14.35 Horizon 2025 Dr Dipti Patel, Director, NaTHNaC
15.20 Chairs’ closing remarks Sandra Grieve, RCN Public Health Forum and Dr Vanessa Field, Deputy Director, NaTHNaC
15.30 Conference close
The conference will appeal to all healthcare practitioners involved in delivering travel health services to travellers from the UK, including nurses, physicians, pharmacists, and allied professionals.
Benefits of attending:
• Accrue up to 6.5 hours of CPD to count towards your revalidation
• Learn about latest developments within professional practice, policy and law
• Hear from eminent keynote speakers on contemporary issues in travel health.
• Consider and highlight best practice at national and local level
• Network with travel health nursing professionals from across the UK
Need a helping hand with securing time off or funding to attend? Please download these helpful hints and tips.
Our virtual venue
This event is hosted on Zoom Events, the all-in-one virtual conference platform that enables attendees to connect, learn and interact live with people anywhere.
Please note this is a private event for registered delegates who have a valid conference booking. Registered delegates will also be able to view recorded content after the event.
We recommend reading the following guidance before the event to ensure that you get the best experience using Zoom Events.
Accessing Zoom Events
Delegates can expect to receive their joining instructions by email one week before the event. If you’re unable to locate your joining instructions, check your junk email first, then please contact a member of the events team on 0207 647 3577 or email rcnevents@rcn.org.uk
If you have registered for the event using a work email address, there are occasions when firewall settings can block the email reaching you.
If you do not already have a Zoom Events account, you will be asked to create one and agree to their terms and conditions before accessing the event.
Note: To join the event, users must log in to Zoom Events using the same email address used when booking a place at the event.
Please test your joining link before the day of the event. Some organisations firewall protection may block access to Zoom Events, so you may need to contact your IT department to resolve this.
Creating your profile
When you first access Zoom Events, you’ll be prompted to set up your profile.
You can upload a photo, add your place of work, job title, social media contacts and a brief biography to give you more presence and maximise networking at the event.
In preparation for the event, we recommend the following:
Check your equipment
- Use a computer or laptop if possible, preferably not more than 3 years old
- If using a mobile device, please ensure that you are using iOS or Android
- Before joining the event on a computer or mobile device, download the latest version of the Zoom desktop client/app from the Download Centre. Otherwise, you will be prompted to download and install Zoom when you click the join link
- You can use the system-readiness tool to identify if your device and network connection meet the minimum requirements needed to enjoy the optimal Zoom Events experience
- The test provides users with recommendations based on the results
- Use the latest versions of Google Chrome, Safari, or Firefox on your computer or laptop
- Open the event in incognito or private browser window
- Check that you have followed the advice above for the best experience using Zoom Events
- If using a work device with firewall protection, share this network guide with your IT department ahead of the event for Zoom’s firewall rules
- Close all other applications or programmes on your device e.g. Microsoft Teams
- Refresh your browser
- Turn off your camera to improve connectivity
- Reduce the number of devices in your household using the internet as this could affect your bandwidth internet connection
- Restart your computer
After the event
Please take a few minutes to complete the evaluation at the end of the event. All answers will be treated in the strictest confidence and will help us to shape future events, both online and face to face.
Download your self-learning certificate
Download your self-learning certificate from this webpage following the event. In order to validate the learning gained we recommend that a reflection is completed and submitted with the certificate as part of any review.
Booking and fees
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RCN Members rate |
£80 +VAT |
£96 inc vat |
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Non-Members rate |
£120 +VAT |
£144 inc VAT |
Join the RCN to be immediately eligible for the member rate.
Discounts available (max one per booking) - redeemable via telephone/booking form only.
40% discount - nursing student members (pre-registration only), associate retired RCN members, HCAs or Aps
25% discount - Accredited RCN Trade Union Representatives
10% discount - Group discount when three or more delegates book together.
To make a booking
Online bookings are the easiest and fastest way to book 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Bookings can be made by phone with payment by credit card/Maestro, by calling +44 (0)2920 546460. Lines are open from 9.30am - 4.30pm Monday to Friday.
Bookings can also be made via email with a downloaded booking form (add link) with credit card details or payment/remittance advice emailed to eventsreg@rcn.org.uk
Bookings can also be made by post with a downloaded booking form with credit card details or payment/remittance advice posted to: Event registrations, PO Box 2329, Cardiff CF23 8YZ.
All bookings will be confirmed in writing.
You will not be registered for this event unless payment accompanies your application. Places cannot be held provisionally.
The RCN reserves the right to refuse any booking at any time.
To pay by invoice
To pay by invoice you must send all of the below to eventsreg@rcn.org.uk
• A copy of the Purchase Order document from your organisation or company (we cannot process your order without it)
• Your Finance department/accounts payable contact email address to receive an electronic copy of the invoice from us
• A completed RCN Events Booking Form for each delegate in the booking.
Once the invoice has been raised, you will then receive confirmation of your delegate booking on the event requested. Invoices are to be paid within 30 days of the invoice being issued.
Chairs:
Sandra Grieve, RCN Public Health Forum
Sandra is an independent travel health specialist nurse. Her professional interest moved from midwifery to travel medicine in 1991, moving from clinical practice to an educational role in 2006. Since 2000, Sandra has been an active forum member of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), holding several offices. She is travel health lead for the RCN public health forum (PHF), representing the RCN
on travel health related issues nationally and internationally, and presenting a travel health perspective for policy making. She represents the RCN on the Steering Group and Scientific Committee of the Northern European Conference on Travel Medicine (NECTM), a biennial conference focused on education for travel health practitioners and is a previous Steering Group chair and co-chair.
Sandra is active in several travel medicine bodies. She is a member of the Leadership Council and chair of the International Society of Travel Medicine (ISTM) Publications Oversight Committee (POC), an ISTM Fellow and a Fellow of the Faculty of Travel Medicine (FTM), RCPS(Glasg). She has acted as an examiner in travel health Diploma courses in Glasgow and Liverpool.
Sandra remains involved in developing guidance for nurses in travel health services and supports nurses from other countries aiming to develop similar guidance. The competencies are primarily aimed at nurses in the UK but applicable to travel health professionals worldwide. The fourth edition was published in 2023 along with the third edition of female genital mutilation (FGM) guidance for nurses in travel health services.
Sandra enjoys sharing best practice through these publications and education and encourages collaboration with nurses around the world to support their practice. She enjoys writing, and reviewing articles, organising and attending travel health conferences, gathering and disseminating related information and forging links with nurses in travel health practice globally.
Dr Vanessa Field, Deputy Director, NaTHNaC
Dr Vanessa Field is Deputy Director of the National Travel Health Network and Centre (NaTHNaC) and Consultant in Travel Medicine at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases (HTD) in London, UK. She is a member of the travel sub-group of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), a member of the World Health Organization (WHO) PHEIC IHR Polio Committee, and of the Professional Education Committee of the International Society of Travel Medicine (ISTM). She sits on the editorial board of Travel Medicine and Infectious Diseases and Journal of Travel Medicine.
Speakers:
Aidan O’Leary, Director of Polio Eradication, World Health Organization
Originally from Ireland, Aidan O’Leary joined WHO as Director of Polio Eradication in January 2021. He has more than 20 years of leadership experience in Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, Afghanistan, the Gaza Strip, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Lebanon working with UNRWA, UN OCHA, UNICEF, UNIFIL and the OSCE. He is an exmilitary officer with degrees in economics and law and is a professionally qualified management accountant. He is married to Karen and has two children, Darragh and Eimear.
Professor Gerard Flaherty, Professor of Travel Medicine and International Health, University of Galway
Gerard Flaherty was elected to the role of President-elect of the ISTM in May 2021 and President in May 2023. His research interests include pre-travel risk assessment, travel health behaviour, travellers with pre-existing medical conditions, high altitude medicine, mental health issues and travel, older travellers, technology and artificial intelligence in travel medicine, and travel health education. He has over 20 years of clinical experience in travel medicine and has completed tropical medicine courses and expeditions in Kenya, Tanzania, Nepal, Russia, Cuba, Peru, Malaysia, Japan, Thailand, Ghana, Morocco, and South Africa. He has over 250 publications and research presentations to date.
Dr Philip Veal, Consultant Epidemiologist/Public Health Medicine, UKHSA
Philip is currently a Consultant Medical Epidemiologist within the Travel Health and International Health Regulations Team at the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA). In this role he leads on epidemiology and surveillance of travel associated vector diseases, including Zika, Dengue and Malaria. He also provides leadership of the International Health Regulations UK National Focal Point and is an Educational Supervisor for the Faculty of Public Health Specialist training scheme.
Previously he was a Consultant in Communicable Disease Control & Health Protection for the Public Health Agency, and initially trained and worked as a General Practitioner.
Dr Mike Ankcorn, Consultant in Virology and Infectious Diseases, Sheffield Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Dr Ankcorn (DTM&H, FRCPath, PhD) is a Clinical Virologist & Infectious Diseases Consultant with a breadth of experience in clinical medicine, laboratory diagnostics, clinical research, public health and teaching. He lectures on Dengue, Chikungunya and other arboviruses for the Diploma of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene and is involved in clinical arbovirus studies. He is faculty on the High Consequence Infectious Diseases assessment simulation course. His particular interest is of viral infections in immunocompromised patients.
Carole Tracey, Course Co-Director Professional Development Certificate (PDC) in travel medicine, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow
Carole has had an interesting career since completing the MSc in Travel Medicine at Glasgow. Work includes some interesting and clinically challenging locations such as remote working in the Australian outback, on cruise ships, outreach clinics in rural Kenya as well as working in the UK as a Nurse Practitioner at the UEA Medical Centre, Norwich walkin centre, Ely Minor injuries and an ENP in A&E at Kings Lynn. Currently she is coauthor and codirector of the Professional Development Certificate in Travel Medicine at the RCPSG.
Lucy Mildren and Becky Arrell, Travel Nurses, Fleet Street Clinic
Lucy and Becky are seasoned Travel Health Nurses with a wealth of personal and professional experience in Travel Medicine. They are both passionate about their speciality. Both are members of the International Society of Travel Medicine and have achieved the Certificate of Travel Health. Lucy has also completed the Professional Diploma in Tropical Nursing. Working alongside Dr Richard Dawood at the internationally renowned Fleet Street Clinic, they see patients with a wide variety of itineraries; from luxury safaris to humanitarian deployments.
Dr Dipti Patel, Director, NaTHNaC
Dr Dipti Patel is a consultant in occupational medicine and in travel medicine. She is Director of the National Travel Health Network and Centre (NaTHNaC), and the Chief Medical Officer at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). She is also an honorary lecturer in Population Health, Health Services Research and Primary Care within the School of Health Sciences at Manchester University.
She is a member of the UK Advisory Committee on Malaria Prevention, the Travel Subcommittee of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, and the WHO International Travel and Health Guideline Development Group.
Dipti is an associate editor for Travel Medicine and Infectious Diseases, New Microbes and New Infections, and coeditor of the ABC of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
Contact Us
If your query relates to a booking, please contact the RCN Events Registration Team (Monday to Friday, 9am-4.30pm):
+44 (0)2920 546460
For any other queries relating to this conference please contact the RCN Events Team:
+44 (0)207 6473577
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