| Monday, November 30, 2009 | ||
| 08:15:00 | Registration and Refreshments | |
| 09:15:00 | Welcome and introduction | |
| 09:20:00 | An introduction to sickle cell | Sherill Gregory |
| 09:50:00 | Discussion | |
| 10:00:00 | Strokes in children with sickle cell | David Rees |
| 10:30:00 | Discussion | |
| 10:40:00 | An introduction to beta-thalassaemia | Elaine Miller |
| 11:10:00 | Discussion | |
| 11:20:00 | Refreshments | |
| 11:55:00 | Discussion | |
| 12:05:00 | From school nurse to specialist sickle cell counsellor | Barbara Bailey-Squire |
| 12:25:00 | Discussion | |
| 12:35:00 | Lunch | |
| 13:30:00 | Sickle cell and education | Simon Dyson |
| 14:15:00 | Discussion | |
| 14:25:00 | Establishing and maintaining good links between schools and the sickle cell voluntary sector | Sonia Lindsay |
| 14:55:00 | Discussion | |
| 15:05:00 | Workshops (30 minutes each) | |
| 15:35:00 | Workshop 1: The role of the school nurse in sickle cell | Suzi Crawford |
| 16:05:00 | Feedback from workshops | |
| 16:05:00 | Workshop 2: What should be in a school policy for sickle cell? | Simon Dyson |
| 16:15:00 | Discussion and evaluations | |
| 16:50:00 | Refreshments and close of day one | |
| Tuesday, December 1, 2009 | ||
| 08:15:00 | Registration and Refreshments | |
| 09:00:00 | Update on the NHS screening programme for haemoglobinopathies | |
| 09:30:00 | Perspectives on effective genetic counselling | |
| 10:00:00 | Are patients receiving optimal treatment? | Moira Dick |
| 10:30:00 | Discussion | |
| 10:40:00 | Refreshments | |
| 11:00:00 | Acute painful crises | Neill Westerdale |
| 11:00:00 | Management of complications | |
| 11:20:00 | Pulmonary hypertension | Simon Gibbs |
| 11:40:00 | Renal complications | |
| 12:00:00 | Chelation therapy and its alternatives | Co-burn J. Porter |
| 12:20:00 | Chronic leg ulceration | Sharon Robinson |
| 12:40:00 | Discussion | |
| 12:50:00 | Lunch | |
| 13:40:00 | Managing the transition from paediatric to adult care | Jo Howard, Baba Inusa |
| 14:10:00 | Psychological support for patients in transition to adult care | Nicky Thomas |
| 14:40:00 | Discussion | |
| 14:50:00 | Refreshments | |
| 15:10:00 | Developments in specialist local service provision for sickle cell | Lorna Bennett |
| 15:40:00 | Advances in bone marrow transplantation | Phil Darbyshire |
| 16:10:00 | Current and emerging therapies | Swee Lay Thein |
| 16:40:00 | Discussion and evaluations | |
| 17:00:00 | Close of conference | |
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