Are you coming to conference?

Get ready to inspire, learn and network at the first fully in-person Unite-CPHVA Annual Professional Conference since the pandemic. Here’s what you need to know…

The Unite-CPHVA Annual Professional Conference 2024 is taking place on 6 and 7 November at the state-of-the art Birmingham Conference and Events Centre, and the excitement is building!

Fittingly, this year’s theme is Celebrating our professions: seizing the future. It’s all about you, and helping you to get the best out of practice and your career, despite the challenges that exist.

Read on to find out what you can expect, how to get the most from it, and how to book your place (and vitally how to get there!). It promises to be an inspirational event…

YOU’RE INVITED!

Unite-CPHVA Excellence Awards celebratory evening and dinner buffet

Date: Wednesday 6 November

Time: 7pm

Help to support outstanding work and innovation, plus time to network and relax

^{Admission included in price of 2-day tickets only}

FIVE REASONS TO HEAD TO THE CONFERENCE

YOU CAN EXPECT TO:

1. STAY INFORMED
   Across the two days, a cutting-edge programme on the latest topics impacting CP professions will be delivered by leading speakers. This will include key policy updates (see speakers and topics, below)
2. GAIN CPD BENEFITS
   Actively develop your skills and further your knowledge, while gaining
   professional and clinical updates to help support your CPD and revalidation
3. NETWORK AND SHARE
   Embrace invaluable opportunities to share knowledge with fellow health visitors, school nurses, community nursery nurses, academics, researchers, other healthcare professionals, students, and organisations from across the UK
4. CELEBRATE GOOD PRACTICE
   whether through listening to the innovative call for papers presentations, coming to the Excellence Awards evening (see invite, below), or simply talking to fellow delegates
5. GAIN INSPIRATION
   Allow yourself to soak up ideas and be inspired! During the breaks, you can choose to network, visit exhibitor stands, or just have a hot drink and refresh yourself for the next inspiring session.

SPEAKERS AND TOPICS

The leading speakers include the UK CNOs, the NMC, innovative researchers and practitioners and Unite. Topics will include workforce issues and resolutions, innovation in practice, cost of living impact, safeguarding, social prescribing, the PNA role, and practitioner wellbeing. To learn more about the keynote speaker, see page 32 of the journal. For the full programme and all speaker insights, visit the conference website.

ASK YOUR BURNING QUESTIONS

For the UK CNO panel session on day one (6 November) only, you can submit your questions before the conference itself.

For all other conference sessions, Q&As can be raised after each speaker, depending on time. Please take a look at the conference programme to help you start thinking about what you would like to ask the speakers. There will be a roving microphone on hand to get to as many people as time will allow.

FIND FUNDING

For some delegates, it may be that you’re able to get help with funding your place at conference, so do explore what’s possible.

If asking for funding from your employer, give them concrete and logical reasons for doing so, as this may help with approval. For example, you might choose to say along the lines of:

> ‘It will help support CPD and revalidation’
> ‘I’ll hear policy updates on the latest regulatory challenges’
> ‘I’ll bring back useful insights to share with the team’

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