Programme
Thursday 19th November 1998
1400 : ABCD Committee Meeting
1600 : Registration - Tea/Coffee
1630 : Annual General Meeting - Members only
1830 : Lecture : Professor Alan Williams, Centre for Health Economics at University of York
“Why we should discriminate against the elderly in health care”
Followed by discussion
2000 : Dinner - Royal York Hotel
Friday 20th November 1998
0900 : Registration - Tea/Coffee
Chairman - Dr Jeremy Bending (Eastbourne)
0930 : Debate : It is important to achieve good glycaemic control in gestational diabetes.
In favour : Dr Anne Dornhurst (Hammersmith Hospital)
Against : Dr Rene Page (Nottingham)
1100 : Coffee
Chairman - Dr Richard Greenwood
1130 : Dr Robert Turner (Oxford)
UKPDS : implications for Diabetes Care
Lunch - Royal York Hotel
Chairman - Prof. Ken Shaw
1400 : Professor John Wass (Oxford)
The management of pituitary tumours
1500 : Dr Michael Feher (Chelsea & Westminster Hospitals)
The Management of Hypertension in Diabetic patients
1600 : Close of Meeting - Coffee
