The 2018 Joint hosted BPOS & NCRI Psychosocial Oncology and Survivorship Clinical Studies Group Annual Conference
This was held Thursday 8th – Friday 9th March 2018 at the Grand Harbour Hotel, Southampton and the theme was, ‘Making a difference in psycho-oncology from evidence to implementation’.
You can download a pdf file of the programme. Or see how the conference unfolded through our BPOS storify.
Delegates agreed that we had fantastic keynotes. Our Keynote presenters were:
Dr Fran Woodard, Macmillan Cancer Support on the importance of evidence for design and delivery of effective services and interventions for people affected by cancer Fran Woodard’s keynote, BPOS 2018
Diana Harcourt’s keynote, BPOS 2018
Professor Glenn Robert, King’s College London on Patients and staff as co-designers of healthcare services: co-creating patient experiences and staff wellbeing’? Glenn Robert’s keynote, BPOS 2018
We also had an enthusiastically received workshop: How to write a lay summary Helen Bulbeck, brainstrust, and a Service Innovation Symposium, as well as oral presentations, posters and e-posters and a lunch with mentors.
The “Both days inc acc” package in registration includes accommodation for the Thursday evening at the Grand Harbour Hotel. The following is included for delegates who register for this package:
- Full English Breakfast
- Tea and Coffee making facilities in your room
- Toiletries
- Free Wi-Fi
- 24 Hour Reception
Should delegates wish to book bed & breakfast accommodation for the night before the conference please make your own arrangements by calling the hotel’s reservation department on 02380633033 or by emailing ghreservations@grandharbourhotel.co.uk You must use the following code to receive the BPOS rate of £105: “UNIO010318” .
Other nearby hotels may be found at www.booking.com.
Please see below the guidance for poster, e-poster and oral presentations for the British Psychosocial Oncology Society Annual Conference 2018. Please see the website for the draft conference programme: https://www.bpos.org/
ORAL
- Please see the draft conference programme for the day and time of your presentation.
- 10 minute presentations with 5 minutes for questions at the end.
- Please email your PowerPoint presentation to Emma Nicklin (Conference Organiser) by Tuesday 6th March. Please also ensure that you bring a copy of your presentation with you to the conference on a memory stick and that you arrive at your meeting room at least 20 minutes before the start of your session (or an appropriate break in the programme) in order to familiarise yourself with the room and upload your presentation.
E-POSTER
- Please see the draft conference programme for the day and time of your presentation.
- 3 minute presentation with 2 minutes for questions at the end.
- E-poster to be displayed as either 1 PowerPoint slide (full poster) or 4 short PowerPoint slides (introduction, aims, methods, and conclusion).
- Please email your e-poster to Emma Nicklin (Conference Organiser) by Tuesday 6th March. Please also ensure that you bring a copy of your presentation with you to the conference on a memory stick and that you arrive at your meeting room at least 20 minutes before the start of your session (or an appropriate break in the programme) in order to familiarise yourself with the room and upload your presentation.
- In addition to your e-poster presentation, you may also have a physical poster displayed if you wish. Please follow the guidelines below for poster printing instructions.
POSTER
- Portrait orientation and no larger than 1830mm (6ft) high and 940mm (3ft) wide. A0 size is usual.
- You may put up your poster any time from 9am onwards on Thursday 8th of March.
- You will be allocated a number and assigned a board on which to hang your poster (Velcro will be provided).
- Posters are available for informal viewing throughout the conference during coffee and lunch breaks.
- The main poster viewing session will take place during the drinks reception on Thursday 8th of March prior to the conference dinne