Webinar: Optimising COPD management in the community and preventing frailty by MA Exhibitions

About This Webinar

In this CPD webinar which will be chaired by Prof Singh and Dr Vilches Moraga, Dr Rizwan Ahmed will provide guidance for primary and community care professionals on management of older people with COPD particularly during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Dr Yousaf will describe the Staying Safe project which he is working on in collaboration with CESOP. This project involves identifying all patients in a practice list who are 70 years and above, to advise them on four key areas of concern during the difficult period of lockdown and shielding: mobility, nutrition, medications, and wellbeing. This advice and support is designed to prevent any complications which may arise from self-isolation in this vulnerable group.

** All attendees will receive a CPD certificate after the webinar **

Presenters

Prof Iqbal Singh

Consultant Physician & Chair, Centre of Excellence in Safety for Older People

Professor Singh is a consultant physician and Chair of the Centre of Excellence in Safety for Older People (CESOP) and has led on training and education of the workforce within the health and social care sector on issues around improving skills and knowledge and equally focusing on embedding a culture of compassion, dignity and respect.

He has been a leading contributor to healthcare and medical regulation and as commissioner Health Care Commission and Chair of the Expert Reference Group on Patient Safety with national and international experts, he led the development of criteria indicators for assessment of safety in healthcare. He is also chair of the GMC BME Doctors’ Forum and chaired the GMC’s Equality and Diversity Committee from 2008 – 2012 and founded Diversity Partners. He is a member of the National Platinum Awards Committee and medical vice chair of the Advisory Committee for Clinical Excellence Awards (ACCEA) North West and led the way for stakeholder engagement.

He is Founder Chair of the Centre for Remediation, Support and Training (CRST), focusing on induction, support mentorship and remediation - helping international graduates successfully integrate into NHS and communities, developing resilience and addressing their mental and physical health and wellbeing.

He is a member of the Health Honours Committee which advises on nominations for honours in the New Year and Birthday Honours lists and member of the Diversity Inclusion Committee providing oversight on embedding diversity in the Honours system.

Dr Arturo Vilches-Moraga

Consultant Geriatrician and Physician, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust & Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Manchester

Arturo is Consultant Geriatrician and Physician at Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences, University of Manchester.

His research and quality improvement interests include delirium, frailty, geriatric in-reaching services into general surgery, heart failure, safer transitions of care and COVID-19.
Arturo has received research grants, presented at national/European conferences and is author of multiple publications and reviewer for various academic journals.

He is a faculty member of National Emergency Laparotomy Audit (NELA), Middle East Academy of Medicine of Ageing, Centre of Excellence for Safety of Older People (CESOP), and past member of the executive board of the European Geriatric Medicine Society (EuGMS).

Rizwan Ahmed

Respiratory Consultant, Royal Bolton Hospital

Dr Rizwan Ahmed is a Consultant Respiratory and General Medical Physician working at the Royal Bolton Hospital NHS Foundation Trust since 2012. He qualified in 2003 and completed initial training in the Northwest and Yorkshire regions before returning to Bolton as Consultant.

His subspecialty interest is Medical Education and Respiratory Infections. He has been a key driver in improving patient safety and standards of care in his department and the Trust. He leads on various patient safety audits and has developed clinical guidelines and pathways to ensure deliver of personalised, patient-centred, safe care.

He is an active member of Centre of Excellence for Safety in Older People and has been working with partners to improve safety in hospitals, care homes and the wider community and ensure the values of dignity and respect are always upheld.

Fahad Yousaf

GP, The Family Practice, Blackburn & Senior Specialty Doctor in Cardiology, East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

Dr Fahad Yousaf has been working in Blackburn as a general practitioner for the last 6 years. His clinical specialty interest is cardiology. His MD research was to investigate prevalence of heart failure in the elderly population (85 years and older). In addition to his general practice, he works as a Senior Specialty Cardiologist at Royal Blackburn Hospital.

He is the Practice Lead for Research, Undergraduate Medical Education, and locality primary care network (PCN).

He is an undergraduate community GP tutor for Manchester Medical School and the University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN). Earlier this year he received a Gold award for excellence in medical education from Manchester Medical School for his contribution to community-based medical education (CBME). He also works as a GMC associate and PLAB examiner.

He is the Royal College of Physicians (London) SAS representative for Northwest and a member of RCP London's Care Quality Improvement Directorate (CQID) Board.

He is actively involved in research and currently collaborating with the Centre of Excellence in Safety for Older People (CESOP) on the ‘COVID 19: Staying Safe' project.