15th Manchester Advanced Pain & Symptom Management Course – 2026
Registration fee
The registration fee includes all refreshments, and on-line access to course materials (lectures, reading / reference list).
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 2026, 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
15th Guildford Advanced Pain and Symptom Management Courses’ awaiting approval by the Federation of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom for 11 category 1 (external) CPD credit(s)
Ticket Prices
Early bird rate ends 1st April 2026 – £545 standard rate applies after that.
Coupon code 4for3 available. All bookings must be made together.
Hourly Schedule
Programme Day 1
- 9.30 - 9.40
- Chairman’s introduction
- 9.40 - 10.20
- Pain assessment
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Speakers:
Prof Andrew Davies
- 10.20 - 11.00
- Lies, damn lies and pain scores
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Speakers:
Dr Paul Farquhar-Smith
- 11.00 - 11.30
- COFFEE BREAK
- 11.30 - 12.10
- Objective assessment of pain?
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Speakers:
Dr Craig Gouldthorpe
- 12.10 - 12.50
- Opioid prescribing in organ failure
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Speakers:
Dr Constanze Remi
- 12.50 - 13.50
- LUNCH
- 13.50 - 14.30
- Opioid switching
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Speakers:
Dr Andrew Dickman
- 14.30 - 15.10
- Acupuncture/TENS
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Speakers:
Dr John Schutzer-Weissmann
- 15.10 - 15.40
- COFFEE BREAK
- 15.40 - 16.20
- Specialist palliative care: does it make a difference?
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Speakers:
Dr Bridget Johnston
- 16.20 - 17.00
- Video killed the radio star
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Speakers:
Prof Simon Noble
- 17.00 - 18.00
- Reception
- Networking
Programme Day 2
- 9.30 - 9.40
- Chairman’s introduction
- 9.40 - 10.20
- Upper GI symptoms
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Speakers:
Ms Jo Thompson
- 10.20 - 11.00
- ‘Newer’ antiemetics – what’s their role?
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Speakers:
Dr Constanze Remi
- 11.00 - 11.30
- COFFEE BREAK
- 11.30 - 12.10
- Antidepressants: new versus old versus none
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Speakers:
Dr Clodagh Power
- 12.10 - 12.50
- Clonidine/dexmedetomidine
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Speakers:
Dr Andrew Dickman
- 12.50 - 13.50
- LUNCH
- 13.50 - 14.30
- Motor neurone disease
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Speakers:
Dr Caroline Barry
- 14.30 - 15.10
- Frailty/dementia – a step too far?
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Speakers:
Prof Paul Paes
- 15.10 - 15.40
- COFFEE BREAK
- 15.40 - 16.20
- End of life care in the real world
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Speakers:
Dr Amy Taylor
- 16.20 - 17.00
- Clinically assisted hydration
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Speakers:
Prof Andrew Davies
