Clinical Symposium 2024

 

Welcome to the Symposium 2024 - Team Performance

Great Western Air Ambulance Charity provides the critical care and air ambulance services to 2.1 million people across Bristol, Bath and North East Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, North Somerset and parts of Wiltshire. Our Critical Care Team consists of Doctors and Advanced and Specialist Paramedics who provide Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine at the scene of the most critically ill or injured. As a charity, we receive no day-to-day government funding and rely on the vital support and donations from the communities we serve.

Schedule
0900 - 0910 Welcome
0900 - 0905
Anna Perry

GWAAC CEO

0905 - 0910
Andy Lockyer

Consultant in Emergency Medicine & Pre-Hospital Care. Medical Director, GWAAC

0910 - 1040 Session 1 Chair: Dan Davis.
0910 - 0955
Stephen Hearns - Consultant in Emergency & Aeromedical Retrieval Medicine

Communication under pressure

0955 - 1040
Tom Evens - Consultant in Emergency Medicine

Preparing for performance: What coaches are doing when not coaching

1040 - 1110 Tea & Coffee & Visit Trade Stands
1110 - 1210 Session 2 Chair: Dan Davis
1110 - 1140
Floss Andrews - Personal Development and Mindset Coach

What's behind the gameface?

1140 - 1210
Olivia Patel - Performance Nutritionist

How does nutrition affect performance?

1210 - 1310 Lunch & visit trade stands
1310 - 1430 Session 3 Chair: Vicki Brown
1310 - 1330
Clinical Demo - GWAAC team and SWAST Hazardous Area Response Team (HART)

Resuscitative Thoracotomy - Team Approach

1330 - 1400
Christian Wiggin - Specialist Practitioner in Critical Care, GWAAC. Advanced Critical Care Practitioner, RD&E

Making Things Happen - Successfully Delivering Care as a Team

1400 - 1430
Harvey Pynn - Consultant in Emergency Medicine & Pre-Hospital Care

Deploying small medical teams - coping with burnout or boredom

1430 - 1500 Tea & Coffee & visit trade stands
1500 - 1630 Session 4 Chair: Vicki Brown
1500 - 1545
John Martin - CEO, SWAST

"Tell me what to do!" - John will explore the role a leader plays in creating high performing teams through the use of what you do and don’t say.

1545 - 1630
Dan Davis - Specialist Practitioner in Critical Care, GWAAC

Creating a culture for team performance

 

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