The booking system is open for people to register to join online for our Dr Jenny Vaughan Memorial Conference.\r\n\r\nThe day-long conference is held in memory of our former chair and founding member Dr Jenny Vaughan OBE.\r\n\r\nThe event will feature discussions, and presentations on the causes Dr Vaughan was passionate about, and some of the current challenges facing the NHS.\r\n\r\nIt will take place at the Wellcome Collection in London on Saturday 17 May. Registration is from 8am and the conference finishes around 5pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The last few tickets for the in-person conference<\/a> are available. Register here to join the conference online<\/a>.\r\n\r\nDr Vaughan was made an OBE in 2022 for her work, particularly in supporting doctors convicted of gross negligence manslaughter.\r\n\r\nThey include Dr David Sellu, who will open a packed conference programme with a talk about Dr Vaughan.\r\n\r\nIt will be followed by a panel discussion on physician associates in the NHS.\r\n\r\nThis will be chaired by DAUK\u2019s Dr David Nicholl. It will feature former DAUK chair Dr Matt Kneale; Anaesthetists United chair Dr Richard Marks; consultant orthopaedic surgeon Professor Scarlett McNally; and Janet Eastham, the Telegraph\u2019s social and religious affairs editor, who has reported extensively on physician associates.\r\n\r\nDr Shireen Kassam, consultant haematologist and honorary senior lecturer at King\u2019s College Hospital, will discuss plant-based eating for health and the planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A media panel will feature Emma Wilkinson, vice-chair of the Medical Journalists\u2019 Association, GP and media medic Dr Punam Krishan, and GP, broadcaster, and campaigner Dr Anita Raja.\r\n\r\nProf McNally will talk about how to save the NHS before consultant psychiatrist Dr Benji Waterhouse will join remotely to perform his award-winning comedy.\r\n\r\nThe afternoon session will start with Imran Khan KC speaking on the experience of injustice.\r\n\r\nAndrea James, a legal expert in professional discipline and healthcare regulatory law, will talk about fitness to practise and freedom of speech.\r\n\r\nGMC fitness to practise myth busting and compassionate regulation is the topic for the GMC\u2019s Dr Andrew Hoyle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A discussion on general practice in 2025 will be facilitated by DAUK\u2019s GP committee followed by a presentation on Threads of Survival.\r\n\r\nDr Rachel Clarke, NHS palliative care doctor and acclaimed author, will close the day. She will talk about the impact of Covid, and maintaining meaning and reward in medicine.\r\n\r\nThe conference is free for DAUK members. We’re encouraging non-members to join DAUK<\/a> or support our mission with a donation to our GoFundMe<\/a>. Please support our work.\r\n\r\nRegister here to join the conference online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The booking system is open for people to register to join online for our Dr Jenny Vaughan Memorial Conference. The day-long conference is held in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,92],"tags":[433,692],"class_list":["post-1369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dauk-news","category-learn-not-blame","tag-conference","tag-dr-jenny-vaughan-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Panel discussion<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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