NHS Education for Scotland / Scottish Government Healthcare Science Annual Conference 2025
10, 20 and 25 February and 7 March 2025

Who should attend?
This event is suitable for all colleagues within our Healthcare Science (HCS) community across NHS Scotland and beyond.
Overview
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Registration has now closed for this conference.
Monday 10 February, 9.00 am - 10.30 am
Webinar 1 Topic: HCS Strategic Approach
(Registration deadline: REGISTRATION CLOSED)
Thursday 20 February, 10.00 am - 11.45 am
Webinar 2 Topic: HCS Education
(Registration deadline: REGISTRATION CLOSED)
Tuesday 25 February, 1.00 pm - 2.45 pm
Webinar 3 Topic: HCS Leadership
(Registration deadline: REGISTRATION CLOSED)
Friday 7 March, 10.00 am - 11.30 am
Webinar 4 Topic: Innovation in HCS
(Registration deadline: REGISTRATION CLOSED)
Please see speaker biographies opposite and tabs below for posters, programme and event flyer/session descriptors.
Our Event
This event is a collaboration between NHS Education for Scotland and Scottish Government, providing an eclectic mix of themed sessions hosted online on MS Teams in February/March 2025. We hope this online format presents increased flexibility and accessibility, particularly for our colleagues in remote and rural locations. Regardless of identity or specialism, it is an opportunity to hear about topics of interest to our HCS community and to contribute to it. Our event is completely free and also offers trainees the opportunity to showcase their poster work.
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THE POSTER COMPETITION HAS NOW CLOSED - PLEASE SEE POSTER TAB BELOW FOR POSTERS SUBMITTED.
Poster Competition for Trainees
Can you design an engaging poster that clearly communicates and celebrates research or innovation within your HCS specialism or service? Communicate the science, engineering or technology involved, explain why your innovation is so significant and how it has a positive impact on patient outcomes. Our poster competition is open to all current HCS trainees with a National Training Number.
We recommend using Microsoft PowerPoint or Canva to design posters, they should be saved in PDF format and submitted to HCS@nes.scot.nhs.uk by Friday 31 January 2025. This is to enable them to be judged by our panel in advance of the event.
Posters will be displayed in an online gallery and 3 winners will be chosen to give 10-minute presentations during our last session on Friday 7 March. Regardless of whether you win, we plan to use all submitted posters during our Healthcare Science Week campaign in March 2025. There will be prizes of £200, for individual submissions, or up to £500 for joint submissions of up to 3 trainees, towards CPD support.
Closing Date for Poster Submissions: Friday 31 January 2025*
*Please send poster pdfs to: HCS@nes.scot.nhs.uk
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Closing Date for Registering: One week prior to each session - please see above.
Contact
NES Conference Team, NHS Education for Scotland
hcsevents@nes.scot.nhs.uk
- Dominic Burns (Webinar 1 Facilitator)
- Jessica Dickson (Webinar 1 Facilitator)
- Deirdre O’Flynn (Webinar 1 Facilitator)
- Professor Catherine Ross (Webinar 1)
- Sarah Smith (Webinars 1 & 2)
- Diane Anderson (Webinar 2)
- Claire Cameron (Webinars 2 & 4)
- Lorna Crawford (Webinar 2)
- Jenna Jenkinson (Webinar 2)
- Dr Jennifer Laird (Webinar 2)
- Karen Brazier (Webinar 3)
- Bianca Brownlee (Webinar 3)
- Katrina Oates (Webinar 3)
- Mandy Scott (Webinar 3)
- Matthew Beaney (Webinar 4)
- Fiona Fraser (Webinar 4)
- Dr Fiona Schaefer (Webinar 4)
- Diana Rios Szwed (Webinar 4)
- Dr Michael Taylor (Webinar 4)
Speakers
Additional information
Please see programme below.
Download programmeThe poster winners are:
1st Place
Matthew Beaney, Trainee Clinical Scientist, NHS Tayside
The Rise of Clinical Pharmacogenomics: A Success Story
2nd Place
Diana Rios Szwed, Trainee Clinical Scientist, NHS Lothian
Transforming Genomic Medicine with Next Generation Sequencing
3rd Place
Michael Taylor, Trainee Medical Physicist, NHS Tayside
Implementing MobiusFX - Enhancing Treatment Outcomes
PLEASE SEE POSTERS BELOW
Related documents
- 1. Azeezat Ogunbadejo Delivering A High Standard Of Healthcare Using Datix As A Learning Tool
- 2. Diana Rios Szwed Transforming Genomic Medicine With Next Generation Sequencing
- 3. Eirin Beese Ultra Low Field MRI
- 4. Gillian Mcgeough The Use Of Lateralisation Markers In Plain Radiography Foreign Body Detection
- 5. Johanna Looser Healthcare Academia Innovation Collaboration
- 6. Maggie Ulyatt Innovation In Molecular Radiotherapy
- 7. Matthew Beaney The Rise Of Clinical Pharmacogenomics
- 8. Michael Taylor Implementing Mobiusfx Enhancing Treatment Outcomes
- 9. Thomas Trim Utilisation Of Bubble Contrast Echo Studies In NHS Lothian
Please see below flyer/session descriptions.