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NCC, Birmingham | 19-20 November 2025

We are delighted to invite you to attend this year’s National Primary Care Diabetes & Obesity (PCDO) Society, our annual free-to-attend, two day conference taking place on 19-20 November 2025 in Birmingham.

We are pleased to be meeting face to face in Birmingham and as ever, you will be able to benefit from clinically focused education on a range of topics that are most relevant to the practicalities of managing diabetes and obesity in primary care today. Printed and online materials will allow you to use your learning experience towards your CPD. In addition, breaks during the day will also allow the perfect opportunity for networking with your colleagues.

We very much hope you can join us for this key event in the 2025 diabetes and obesity calendar.

Why attend

Masterclasses offering hands-on tips that will influence your everyday clinical practice

Inspiration and new contacts with various opportunities to network alongside your peers

Claim 12 CPD points for the two-day conference, and receive a workbook to build your CPD profile, supplemented by associated online materials

Agenda

Day 1:

19 November 2025 09.00 - 17.20

Agenda

08.20 – 09.00

Registration and refreshments

09.00 – 09.30

NHS England update and Q&A

New pathways and guidance
Obesity drugs in primary care
Resources for HCPs and patients

Clare Hambling & Naresh Kanumilli

09.30 – 10.10

Sponsored Symposium

TBC

10.10 – 10.45

Debate: What is more important – the Heart or the Kidneys?

How are they interconnected?
When do we need to prioritise one over the other?
How can we protect both?

Paul Kalra & Philip Kalra

10.45 – 11.15

Refreshments

11.15 – 12.00

Masterclass rotation 1:

Masterclass 1: Having the obesity conversation: the patient’s view – Sarah le Brocq

Raising weight issues: When and how
Minimising weight bias and stigma
What matters most to our patients?

Masterclass 2: Complex cases – David Morris

The uncertain diagnosis
The older person with diabetes
The person with neurodivergence

Masterclass 3: Women’s health in diabetes – Lisa Owens & Nicola Milne

PCOS and menstrual abnormalities
Contraception, pre-pregnancy and pregnancy
Menopause, HRT and diabetes drugs
Diabetes and sexual dysfunction

Masterclass 4: “Missed but not forgotten” – Professor Kate O’Donnell

The consequences of missing data
Managing hard-to-reach populations
Increasing engagement

Various

12.00 – 13.00

Lunch

13.00 – 13.10

Poster results

13.10 – 13.20

Lifetime Achievement Award presented to new winner

Su Down

13.20 – 14.00

Sponsored Symposium

14.00 – 14.05

Move to masterclasses

14:05 – 14.50

Masterclass rotation 2:

See list of masterclasses above

Various

14.50 – 15.20

Refreshments

15.20 – 15.50

Lifestyle medicine

Diet
Physical activity
Sleep
Stress

Sheena Fraser

15.50 – 16.30

Sponsored Symposium

TBC

16.30 – 17.05

A decade of diabetes at NHS England

What he’s learned, what’s changed and what’s to come

Partha Kar

17.05 – 17.20

AGM

Day 2:

20 November 2025 09.00 - 16.00

Agenda

08.30 – 09.00

Registration and refreshments

09.00 – 09.35

Redefining obesity: Clinical vs pre-clinical obesity

Definitions of clinical and pre-clinical obesity
Assessing obesity complications and comorbidities
Is this a useful distinction in real-life practice?

Clare Hambling & Naresh Kanumilli

09.35 – 10.10

Discontinuation of Levemir (insulin degludec): How to respond

Case-finding and clinical review
Who to prioritise
Choosing an appropriate new insulin
Avoiding glucose instability when switching

Clair Ranns & Waqas Tahir

10.10 – 10.50

Sponsored symposium

10.50 – 11.20

Refreshments

11.20 – 12.05

Masterclass rotation 1:

Masterclass 1: Implementation of obesity guidelines – Dimitris Papamargaritis

Take-home messages from NICE and NHS guidance
Weight-loss drugs: Who is eligible?
Lifestyle resources and signposting
Overcoming resistance in your locality

Masterclass 2: Diet advice: Separating fact from fiction – Sarah Alicea

Which diet is best?
Time-restricted eating
The ZOE effect
Mythbusting

Masterclass 3: Liver tests in type 2 diabetes: What and when? – Prof Guru Aithal

Interpreting liver function tests
Identifying different types of fatty liver disease
Identifying and referring for fibrosis

Masterclass 4: Tech – What do we need to know in primary care? – David Miller

Continuous glucose monitoring: What, who and when?
Essentials of data interpretation
Hybrid-closed-loop systems
Data privacy, driving and other medicolegal issues

Various

12.05 – 12.10

Masterclass change around

12.10 – 12.55

Masterclasses repeated as above.

Various

12.55 – 13.55

Lunch

13.55 – 14.10

LAA presentation – Future insights and treatments in diabetes: Abstracts and posters from the ADA conference

New diabetes and obesity drugs
New technologies

Neil Munro

14.10 – 14.50

Sponsored symposium

14.50 – 15.25

Foot disease

Foot self-care
Spotting early warning signs
Foot checks and risk stratification
Screening in people with darker skin tones
When and how to refer

Debbie Sharman

15.25 – 16.00

Hot topics

Horizon scanning
Obesity drugs – what’s next?
Latest developments

Pam Brown

16.00

Chairs concluding remarks

Naresh Kanumilli

Speakers

Samina Ali

Advance Practice Pharmacist, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde

Sarah Alicea

Clinical Lead Diabetes Dietitian, Barts Health NHS Trust

Hannah Beba

Consultant Pharmacist, Leeds Health and Care Partnership

Pam Brown

GP, Swansea

Jane Diggle

Specialist Diabetes Nurse Practitioner, West Yorkshire

Su Down

Diabetes Nurse Consultant, Somerset

Sheena Fraser

GP Partner, Waverley Park Medical Practice

Clare Hambling

GP, Norfolk and National Clinical Director for Diabetes and Obesity, NHS England

Paul Kalra

Consultant Cardiologist, Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust

Philip Kalra

Professor of Nephrology, University of Manchester

Naresh Kanumilli

GPwSI, Manchester and Chair of the PCDO Society

Julie Lewis

Primary Care Nurse Consultant

David Miller

Clinical Pharmacist in General Practice, Beverley

Nicola Milne

PCN DiaST Lead Diabetes Specialist Nurse Clinical Lead for the Greater Manchester Diabetes Clinical Network

Neil Munro

Retired GP

Kate O'Donnell

Professor of Primary Care Research and Development, University of Glasgow

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National Conference Centre, Birmingham

Address: Coventry Road, Bickenhill, Solihull, West Midlands B92 0EJ

Venue link: https://www.nationalconferencecentre.co.uk/

Directions: The National Conference Centre is centrally situated at J6 on the M42 with excellent transport links to Birmingham International Airport and train station which is just a 5 minute drive away. Central Birmingham is 25 minutes drive.

Accommodation: Please click here for hotel rates

Coaches: Coach transfer will be available from the Hilton Metropole to the NCC on both mornings of the conference and on the return on day 1. After the conference on day 2 the coach will go to Birmingham International train station.

19 November 2025 09.00 - 17.20
20 November 2025 09.00 - 16.00

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Why attend

Agenda

Speakers

Samina Ali

Sarah Alicea

Hannah Beba

Pam Brown

Jane Diggle

Su Down

Sheena Fraser

Clare Hambling

Paul Kalra

Philip Kalra

Naresh Kanumilli

Julie Lewis

David Miller

Nicola Milne

Neil Munro

Kate O'Donnell

Sponsors

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