Education and Events

6 February 2025 at 7:30 pm

PLATELET-RICH PLASMA AND OTHER NON MEDICATED TREATMENTS FOR HAIR LOSS

Chloe Heyworth
Trichologist & Micropigmentation Specialist

Chloe Heyworth is a Trichologist and the owner of Micro Artistry Hair Clinic in Somerset. The clinic provides specialist hair simulation, stimulation, and removal services including Scalp Micropigmentation (SMP), Platelet-Rich Plasma Therapy (PRP), and Diode Laser Hair Removal. Chloe completed her level 4 qualification in Trichology with TrichoCare Education. To date, Chloe has helped 100s of men and women from her award-winning clinic with non-medicated solutions to tackling hair loss. She was invited to speak on her knowledge of non-medicated hair loss solutions specifically for women at the British Association of Hair Restoration Surgery (BAHRS) Annual Conference in London in May of last year.

Learning objectives with case studies:

– Overview of the mechanisms of Platelet-Rich Plasma Therapy
– Comparing Platelet-Rich Plasma Therapy with traditional treatment options
– Exploring other non-medicated alternatives for hair loss
– Fostering patient-centred approaches in hair loss management

In this talk, Chloe hopes to share her experience on treating many forms of hair loss through alternative options with a focus on PRP Therapy, and how GPs may be able to provide more options to patients suffering from hair loss.

13 February 2025 at 7:30 pm

BUTTERFLIES IN THE STOMACH: MANAGING RISK IN PAEDIATRICS

Dr Dan Magnus
Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine | Bristol Royal Hospital for Children & Consultant Senior Lecturer in Global Child Health | University of Bristol . He is also the co-Director of the new Bristol Paediatric Clinic, Litfield House

With increasing pressure across the NHS, the clinical assessment and management of children can feel more worrying for clinicians than ever before, including in primary care.  This is further exacerbated by high profile media and coroner cases as well as areas of focus like ‘Martha’s Rule’.  But there are things we can do as clinicians to help manage risk in paediatrics and to minimise that ‘butterflies in the stomach’ feeling we all have on occasion. In this talk we will look at clinical risk, how we carry it and how we manage it when it comes to seeing and supporting children and their families.

Dr Dan Magnus is a Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine at the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children and Consultant Senior Lecturer in Global Child Health at the University of Bristol. He is also the co-Director of the new Bristol Paediatric Clinic, Litfield House.

27 February 2025 at 7:30 pm

DIAGNOSIS TO TREATMENT: SUPPORTING THE PRIMARY CARE PRACTITIONERS’ MIGRAINE MANAGEMENT JOURNEY

Dr Richard Ibitoye
Consultant Neurologist and Lead for the Headache Clinic at Southmead Hospital

6 March 2025 at 7:30 pm

CHILDHOOD FITS, FAINTS AND FUNNY TURNS

Dr Andrew Mallick
Consultant Paediatric Neurologist

Dr Andrew Mallick is a consultant paediatric neurologist working at Litfield House Medical Centre.  His NHS practice is in Bristol Royal Hospital for Children. He works in the nationally designated Children’s Epilepsy Surgery Service (CESS) and is the neurology lead for the southwest paediatric neurovascular service.  He is a regular trainer on the UK Paediatric Epilepsy Training (PET) Courses and was chair of the South West Interest in Paediatric Epilepsy (SWIPE) network from 2016 – 2024.

Overview / Learning Objectives:

• Epilepsy is the most common chronic neurological condition in childhood.
• Concept of epilepsy syndromes and “the Epilepsies”.
• Concerns about epilepsy misdiagnosis.
• There are a wide range of presenting features that occur in epilepsy but most are not specific and can occur in a wide range of other paroxysmal disorders.
• Paroxysmal disorders are common in children and epilepsy is the diagnosis in a quarter of children.
• The other differential diagnoses of paroxysmal episodes in children include syncope (including faints, breath holding attacks, reflex anoxic seizures), parasomnias, tics, paroxysmal movement disorders, febrile convulsions, and non-epileptic attack disorder. Many of these will be discussed in detail.
• Current treatment options for epilepsy – the good, the bad, and the controversial.