West Midlands Clinical Network: Footcare Peer Review Event

West Midlands Diabetes Foot Care Network Event

Tuesday 12th November 2019

9.00am - 1.00pm (registration from 8.30am - lunch provided)

Walsall Football Club, Banks’s Stadium, Bescot Crescent, Walsall, West Midlands WS1 4SA.

Chaired by Dr Narasimha Murthy, Consultant Physician in Diabetes and Endocrine at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire, and Sarah Hart, Principal Lead Podiatrist, Diabetes and Tissue Viability at South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust, and Pete Shorrick, head of Midlands and East Diabetes UK. The aims and objectives of this event are:

• To link commissioners and providers together to open up conversations and joint working on diabetes foot care
• To network and facilitate discussions on how we can work together as a West Midlands team to reduce amputations and improve availability of Multi-Disciplinary Footcare Teams.
• To share good practice and learning from others with the purpose of reducing inequality in services and reducing amputations.
• To share local analysis of national diabetes foot care audit data and encourage discussions and practical actions to specifically target lower limb amputation variance.

Who is it for?

This free event is aimed at any healthcare professionals working within diabetes foot care who have the enthusiasm to work collaboratively to improve services in the West Midlands.

Healthcare professionals from the following areas are invited to attend: Shropshire and Telford and Wrekin, Staffordshire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Coventry and Warwickshire, Black Country, Birmingham and Solihull.

For further information contact: Shaneela.khakh@nhs.net

Venue information

The Banks’s Stadium has 1000 free car parking spaces and is a short walk away from Bescot Stadium train station. The Sat nav postcode is WS1 4SA.

Questions about this event?

Name: Shaneela Khakh

Email:shaneela.khakh@nhs.net

Telephone:07860 180397