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DSMIG Members Meeting

Programme

The Marcus Beck Library, Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Winpole Street, London
Friday November 21st 2003

9.30am

Steering Group


11.00am

Coffee

11.15am

DSMIG Business Meeting / Reporting Back

  • Steering Group
  • Guidelines
  • Vitamins and Minerals study
  • Coeliac study
  • Website
  • DAISI Project
  • Day on adult issues, plans for 2004
  • Case studies
  • AOB

Presentations - transition issues

12.15pm

Research about Transition

Tony O'Sullivan, Community Paediatrician, Lewisham

12.45pm

Lunch

1.30pm

The Wigan Transition / Adult Team's Experience, and Adult Health Screening Assessment

David Metcalf and Tracey Spur, Adult Learning Disability Nurses, Wigan Learning Disability Team

2.00pm

Oxfordshire's Integrated Assessment for transition: plans for the future to support person-centred transition

Elizabeth Navrady, Community Nurse, Oxfordshire Learning Disability Child and Adolescent Team

2.30pm

Early adult queries from the DSA

Dr Liz Marder, Medical Advisor, DSA

3.00pm

Tea

3.15pm

Roundtable discussion about Transition

chaired by Dr Patricia Jackson

Including all speakers and Dr Jean Dunn-Lane, Senior Physician, Ireland

  • the different models
  • where we go from here, and how we might further involve adult teams in DSMIG

4.00pm

Close of meeting

Registration information

This is a closed meeting for DSMIG full members but mailing list members and non members may apply for provisional registration for the afternoon programme only. Places will be made available if space permits. Priority will be given to mailing list members. Registration forms have been sent to DSMIG members.

Fees

  • Full members £25
  • Mailing list members (afternoon only, no lunch) £15

Further information from Joyce Judson at info@dsmig.org.uk

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