Programme: Thursday 20 November 2025
Updated 23 July 2025
Time |
Format |
Title |
| 9.00 | Registration. Exhibition opens | |
| 9.30-11.30 | Workshop/Concurrent | Save a Life: Two-hour Red Cross BLS training (Additional cost applies) |
| 10.00-11.00 | Trade session | Trade Learning Lab - topic tbc |
| 10.00-11.10 | Plenary 2 (Surgical stream) |
Medical update presentations:
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| 10.15-11.10 | Student session | Student Network: Meet and greet. Opportunity for all our students to meet and network |
| 10.15-11.10 | Workshop/Concurrent | Influencing amputations in a remote and rural region: Embracing NHS Scotland and striving towards a collaborative workforce culture Fiona Main - Diabetes UK Clinical Champion ZAP (Zero avoidable amputations) – What have we learned from this initiative and what can you do differently next week to have an impact? Jayne Robbie, Diabetes UK Clinical Champion |
| 10.15-11.10 | Workshop/Concurrent | CMT: The Patients' Story |
| 10.40-11.10 | Sofa session | How podiatry and orthotics can work together to realise the government's shift from treatment to prevention |
| 11.15-13.00 | Plenary sessions | |
| 11.15 | Plenary 1 | Conference opening Emma Stoneman, Conference Chair |
| 11.20 | Plenary 1 | Conference welcome from the CEO and Chair Jane McAdam, Chair, Royal College of Podiatry, and Jane Pritchard, CEO, Royal College of Podiatry |
| 11.30 | Plenary 1 | Walking the narrative: How stories elevate podiatry's role in prevention and system leadership Carolyn McDonald, Chief Allied Health Professional for Scotland |
| 11.50 | Plenary 1 | Title tbc Dr Mandy Abbot (GCU) MSK/Sports Medicine/Special Olympics, and Nick Gallogly, Consultant Orthotist |
| 12.15 | Plenary 1 | KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Rocky's road to glory: from scrum battles to World Champion Rochelle "Rocky" Clark MBE |
| 13.00-14.15 | Lunch: exhibition, networking and poster viewing | |
| 13.00-13.20 | Trade session | Trade theatre session |
| 13.00-13.30 | Sofa session | Routes to ultrasound education and practical tips on accessing mentorship |
| 13.25-13.45 | Trade session | Trade theatre session |
| 13.40-14.10 | Sofa session | What is sports medicine? |
| 13.50-14.10 | Trade session | Trade theatre session |
| 13.00-13.40 | Practical pop-up | Practical pop-up Bunions: All you need to know, including Q&A and have-a-go |
| 13.15-13.45 | Networking | Council conversations An opportunity to chat and network with your Royal College of Podiatry Council members |
| 13.30-14.15 | Wellbeing | Café session: Men's health |
| 14.15-15.15 | Workshops sessions | |
| A1 | Workshop/Concurrent | Movement disorders in children. What's in our podiatry toolkit? Chair: Liam McManus, Royal College of Podiatry Council Member Dr Helen Banwell (PhD), Program Director for Podiatry, Allied Health and Human Performance, University of South Australia Professor Cylie Williams, Deputy Head, School of Primary and Allied Health, Monash University |
| A2 | Workshop/Concurrent | Musculoskeletal (MSK) ultrasound for podiatrists: Utility and updates
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| A3 | Workshop/Concurrent | Opportunities to get involved in research Dr Lindsey Cherry, University of Southampton and South-Central INSIGHT Lead, Dr Richard Collings, CAHPR Southwest Research Champion, Catherine Gooday, Principal Podiatrist, Norfolk and Norwich University Foundation Hospital |
| A4 | Workshop/Concurrent | British Association of Dermatologists – Onychomycosis guidelines update  Professor Ivan Bristow and Dr Kashif Bhatti, Dermatologist |
| A5 | Workshop/Concurrent | Your next patient has learning difficulties |
| A6 | Workshop/Concurrent | Record keeping Chair: Emma Noe, Royal College of Podiatry Council member, and Sharon Gray and Katie Harwood, Professional Support Officers, Royal College of Podiatry |
| A7 | Workshop/Concurrent | Business finance Chair: Adele Holmes, Royal College of Podiatry Council member, and David Davies, TWD Accounting |
| A8 | Student session | Student workshop: Foot and ankle taping techniques |
| A9 | Surgical workshop/ Concurrent | In-foot skin flaps, rotations and advancements Rebecca Shirley, Consultant Plastic Surgeon |
| 15.15-16.00 | Refreshments: exhibition, networking and poster viewing | |
| 15.15-15.35 | Trade session | Trade theatre session |
| 15.15-15.35 | Practical pop-up | Regional anaesthetics blocks Q&A The dos and don'ts, cans and can'ts Rena Francis, SpR Podiatric Surgeon |
| 15.40-16.00 | Trade session | Trade theatre session |
| 15.30-16.00 | Wellbeing | Wellbeing meditation: Sally Gates, yoga teacher and podiatric research assistant |
| 16.00-17.30 | Plenary session | |
| 16.00 | Plenary 1 | Plenary session Chair Emma Stoneman, Conference Chair |
| 16.00 | Plenary 1 | The health benefits of sun exposure Professor Richard Weller |
| 16.00-16.45 | Plenary 2 (Surgical stream) |
Role of plastic surgery in the complex podiatric patient Rebecca Shirley, Consultant Plastic Surgeon |
| 16.25 | Plenary 1 | Podiatry in end-of-life (EOL) care Mark Povey, Clinical Lead Podiatrist, Kent Health Community NHS Foundation Trust |
| 16.50 | Plenary 1 | Bob Prince Memorial Lecture George Flanagan, Consultant Podiatric Surgeon, and Zoe Wilson, Podiatrist and owner of ZW Podiatry |
| 17.20 | Plenary 1 | Welcome to Glasgow from the Lord Provost |
| 17.25 | Plenary 1 | Closing remarks Emma Stoneman, Conference Chair |
| 17.30-18.30 | Drinks reception with trade and poster viewing | |
| 18.30 | Close of exhibition | |