10th Manchester Advanced Pain & Symptom Management Course – 2022
COVID-19 pandemic
The courses / courses venues will adhere to all relevant public health measures relating to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The courses will take place in 2022, and the plan is to hold a face-to-face event, but if this is not possible, then to proceed with a virtual event. Applicants are presumed to agree to this proposal.
Continuing Professional Development
The 10th Guildford Advanced Pain & Symptom Management Courses’ has been approved by the Federation of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom for 11 category 1 (external) CPD credit(s).
Hourly Schedule
Programme Day 1
- 9.30 - 9.40
- Chairman’s introduction
- 9.40 - 10.20
- "New" opioid analgesics
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Speakers:
Dr Andrew Dickman
- 10.20 - 11.00
- Hydromorphone
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Speakers:
Dr Roger Knaggs
- 11.00 - 11.30
- COFFEE BREAK
- 11.30 - 12.10
- Opioid toxicity
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Speakers:
Dr Barry Laird
- 12.10 - 12.50
- Long term effects of opioids
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Speakers:
Dr Paul Farquhar-Smith
- 12.50 - 13.50
- LUNCH
- 13.50 - 14.30
- Opioids for non-pain indications
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Speakers:
Jo Thompson
- 14.30 - 15.10
- What else is new (pain)?
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Speakers:
Dr Andrew Dickman, Prof Andrew Davies
- 15.10 - 15.40
- COFFEE BREAK
- 15.40 - 16.20
- Gabapentinoids - wolves in sheep’s clothing?
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Speakers:
Prof Andrew Davies
- 16.20 - 17.00
- "Safe" opioid usage
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Speakers:
Dr Cathy Stannard
- 17.00 - 18.00
- Reception
- Networking
Programme Day 2
- 9.30 - 9.40
- Chairman’s introduction
- 9.40 - 10.20
- Oral care in advanced disease
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Speakers:
Prof Andrew Davies
- 10.20 - 11.00
- Nausea & vomiting - what, when and why?
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Speakers:
Dr Paul Paes
- 11.00 - 11.30
- COFFEE BREAK
- 11.30 - 12.10
- Octreotide - what is it good for?
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Speakers:
Dr Andrew Dickman
- 12.10 - 12.50
- Management of respiratory secretions / death rattle
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Speakers:
Dr Jenny Power
- 12.50 - 13.50
- LUNCH
- 13.50 - 14.30
- Managing radiotherapy adverse effects
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Speakers:
Seamus Coyle
- 14.30 - 15.10
- Immunotoxicity - the basics
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Speakers:
Dr Tim Cooksley
- 15.10 - 15.40
- COFFEE BREAK
- 15.40 - 16.20
- What else is new (symptoms)?
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Speakers:
Dr Andrew Dickman, Prof Andrew Davies
- 16.20 - 17.00
- "Terminal sedation" - when is it ethical (and when is it not)?
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Speakers:
Dr Caroline Barry

Dr Andrew Dickman
Consultant Pharmacist, Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool

Dr Roger Knaggs
Associate Professor in Clinical Pharmacy Practice, University of Nottingham

Dr Barry Laird
Reader in Palliative Medicine, Edinburgh University

Dr Paul Farquhar-Smith
Consultant in Pain and Anaesthetics, Royal Marsden Hospital, London

Jo Thompson
Lead Nurse Supportive & Palliative Care, Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford

Prof Andrew Davies
Professor of Palliative Medicine, Trinity College Dublin/University College Dublin/Our Lady’s Hospice Dublin
Dr Cathy Stannard
Pain Transformation Programme Clinical Lead, NHS Gloucestershire CCG

Dr Paul Paes
Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust

Dr Jenny Power
Clinical Lecturer in Palliative Medicine, University College Dublin.
Seamus Coyle

Dr Tim Cooksley
Consultant in Acute Medicine, The Christie & Manchester University NHS Foundation Trusts

Dr Caroline Barry
Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Norfolk & Norwich University Hospitals
