151st Session 2024 - 2025
President Prof Parag Singhal
Meetings will be mainly held at
The Nuffield Health Bristol Hospital
(3 Clifton Hill, Clifton, Bristol, BS8 1BN)
We are grateful to Nuffield for providing us with a venue.
Please note that talks now start at 7.45pm
As the rooms have to be vacated by 9pm
Reception & food is from 6.30pm
We will however stream meetings via Youtube - please contact admin for link.
We will endeavour to record meetings and put online.
If you want a meal please contact admin@bristolmedchi.co.uk at least 72 hours in advance. Cost £10 [reduced for students and AHP]
Meetings may also be held Online
and at Engineers' House, The Promenade, Clifton.
See each meeting for details
9th October 2024. Engineers' House
AGM and handover of Presidency
Presidential Address by Prof. Parag Singhal
'The Paradigm Shift in the Management of Diabetes'
Chair: Nabil Jarad
The handover of the Presidency:
We recorded the meeting at Engineers House but the central microphone has proved to not be as good as hoped, especially wihen several peopel talking. the recording starts at 20 seconds.
Video link: https://youtu.be/GYyphdJ9paY
13th November 2024 Nuffield Hospital
Speaker: Dr Chris Custard
'Reinventing the wheels of acute clinical care'
Chair: Parag Singhal
December 2024
BREAK
15th January 2025. Online
Speaker: Prof. Ajay Gupta
COVID-19: the 9/11 for medical science: did the failure to connect the dots lead to the pandemic
Chair: Alan Abraham
12th February 2025 ?Nuffield
Speaker: Dr Raghuram Ananthakrishnan
Integrated Care Boards
Chair: TBC
Venue: ?Nuffield
12th March 2025 Online
Speaker: Dr Sarah Hiorns - President of Hypnosis and Psychosomatic RSM
'The modern use of hypnosis in medicine'
Chair: Peter Carpenter
9th April 2025 Long Fox Lecture ?Nuffield
Speaker: Prof. Paul Goddard
Topic TBC
Chair: Monika Blackwell
14th May 2025 ?Nuffield
Speaker: Prof. Mark Petrioni
The Darzi report - has the problem in the NHS been diagnosed?
11th June 2025 ?Engineers House
Speaker: TBC