National Acute Pain Symposium (NAPS)

NAPS is the largest acute pain meeting in the UK. Having completed the 30th year in 2021, making it the longest running acute pain meeting in the world.

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Key details

Date: 19 to 20 September 2024

Location: Webinar, Warwick conferences (Hybrid meeting, with face-to-face and virtual options)

Availability: Places available

CPD credits: 10 (6 for day 1 and 4 for day 2)

NAPS is a truly multidisciplinary meeting whose delegates include doctors, nurses, physiotherapists and psychologists, and welcome clinicians and trainees from any speciality who have an interest in pain. It is a relaxed and friendly meeting intended to encourage and develop acute pain expertise.

NAPS attracts nationally acclaimed speakers and in recent years have been treated to top quality lectures on a broad range of pain topics from intensive care to veterinary medicine, rheumatology, acute medicine, gastroenterology, obstetrics and orthopaedics, as well as developing themes in basic science research.

It is a hybrid meeting with face to face and virtual options. There is a two day, accommodation and meal package available.  The accommodation is in the conference centre and includes an excellent breakfast, lunch at the conference and a three-course evening meal on the Thursday night.  The meal is held in the venue and is always a popular part of the two day event.

07:00 Registration | Meeting The Trades | Poster Viewing | Refreshments
09:00 Introduction & Welcome
09:15 Medications For Procedural Pain – Penthrox/Entonox | Karin Cannons
09:55 Pain Relief In Acute Pancreatitis | Mike Goulden
10:35 Refreshments | Meet The Trades | Poster Viewing
11:05 Proving We’re Good Enough - pain credentialing, exams and validation | Hoo Kee Tsang & Flick Cox
11:45 Ten Years As Editor Of The British Journal Of Pain: My Favourite Papers | Flick Cox
12:30 Lunch Break (and Pain Trainee Meeting)
13:50 Racial Inequality In The Experience And Management Of Pain | Ugonna Chukwumaife
14:30 Explaining Pain To Patients – How To Have Difficult Conversations | Emily Haigh
15:10 Refreshments | Meet The Trades | Poster Viewing
15:30 Poster Viewing Session
16:00 Patient Experience: Acute Pain After Knee Surgery | Colette Wharton & David Crabtree
16:50 Pain In Art | Rupert Dickens
17:30 End Day One
18.30 Drinks Reception & Meet The Speakers /Naps Social Dinner & Awards

09:00 Welcome
09:05 Pain In Special Populations And Circumstances | Emma Davies
09:50 Ask The Experts: Interactive Session
10:30 Refreshments | Meet The Trades | Poster Viewing
10:50 Poster Viewing Session
11:20 Pain And Psychiatry In The Acute Setting | Zehanah Izmeth And Isabel Paz
12:00 Complaints – How To Avoid & Manage Them | Simon Gomersall
12:40 Lunch Break
13:40 Poster Presentations
14:25 Ketamine In The Management Of Complex Acute Pain | Gill Chumbley
15:05 Review & Close