1. Programme: Morning
9.00 – Registration & refreshments (tea, coffee & Pastries)
9.30 – Welcome, Professor Colin Drummond
9.35 – Alcohol and health harm; what can doctors, nurses and other professionals do? Dr Peter Rice
9.45 – GPs at the Deep End- primary care support for problem alcohol use in areas of highest deprivation, Glasgow
Dr Andrea Williamson (10 minute Q&A included)
10.15 – Lecture 2, Title TBC,
Mr Tom Phillips (10 minute Q&A included)
10.45 – Mid-Morning Break
11.05 – Welcome, Professor Colin Drummond
11.15 – Max Glatt Lecture, Our view of alcohol problems shapes the help we offer
Professor Jonathan Chick (10 minute Q&A included)
12.05 – Max Glatt Medal presentation
12.15 – Lunch (Edward Lumley Hall)
16th November 2016, MCA Symposium ‘Alcohol and health harm; what can doctors, nurses and other professionals do?’ at the Royal College of Surgeons
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2. Programme: afternoon 13.55 – 14.10 Tea & Coffee (Edward Lumley Hall)
Events during lunch: – MCA Regional Advisors Meeting, Committee Room 1
13.25 – MCA AGM, Webb Johnson Hall (Members only)
13.25 – A Jugdoyal Title TBC (Lecture Theatre)
*Optional visit to the Hunterian museum available on request (speak to a member of staff)
13.55 – Tea & Coffee (Edward Lumley Hall)
14.10 – Welcome, Dr Peter Rice
14.15 – How to develop recovery-orientated systems of care
Dr Ed Day (10 minute Q&A included)
14.45 – The power of prevention in tackling alcohol health harm - can we dovetail the differing priorities of public health and primary health care?
Professor Eileen Kaner (10 minute Q&A included)
15.15 – The Alcohol Harm Paradox, life course effects and harms caused to others - Measuring hidden costs of a poorly regulated alcohol industry
Professor Mark Bellis (10 minute Q&A included)
15.45 – Close of Symposium, closing address by Dr Peter Rice
15.50 – Last chance to see exhibitors and have refreshments in the exhibition hall (Edward Lumley Hall)
16th November 2016, MCA Symposium ‘Alcohol and health harm; what can doctors, nurses and other professionals do?’ at the Royal College of Surgeons
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