(Posted on behalf of Peter McLaren)
Hi,
I have come up with some dates for 2016, taking into account holidays and national meetings and varying the weeks so they don’t just fall on a succession of every fourth week or those with commitments every second week miss out:
- 5th Feb
- 11th March
- 15th April
- 13th May
- 1st June
- 15th July
- 12th August
- 2nd September
- 14th Oct
- 4th November
I am not locked in to Fridays. If you wish to arrange a meeting, feel free to choose another night in the week, but if it is in the same week as these dates it will help maintain the spacing between meetings and avoid holidays. If you want my involvement, Wednesdays would also work for me. Numbers do fall off when we have competing meetings within a week or two.
I try to set the date for the difficult airway workshop first, usually in June or July, as it involves the largest number of industry reps, gives them a good lead time and being in winter, may help to coax reps from the smaller companies who may travel from down south. As regards the DAWS, Sharon handled the arrangements at Pindara, which worked well and I think it is better still using a Pindara staff member, as it does involve lines of communication within the hospital.
I am hoping that some of the dates will be claimed by reps on the theatre committees for review of clinical indicators / M&M meetings and the safety committee meetings are important as well. Those who are prepared to run workshops, are welcome to any dates except Feb and the yet to be designated DAWS.
If you have any topics you would like to address or have addressed, please let me know and the earlier the better. I am running out of ideas and enthusiasm but still feel that to not have them at all would be a blot on our professionalism. Any takers?
Regards,
Peter McLaren