Events

FREE for ALL. 

Summary: 
This webinar is aimed at primary care respiratory clinicians. The aim is to provide knowledge of work-related causes and exacerbators of respiratory conditions within working environments. Alongside this will be an awareness of the responsibilities of employers and employees in these working environments. This will enable clinicians to ask the right questions and provide education and advice to patients whose work may be a contributor. 

The webinar will be delivered by Dr David Fishwick, Chief Medical Advisor HSE and Honorary Professor of Occupational and Environmental Respiratory Medicine, University of Sheffield; and Susan Donnelly, HSE specialist Occupational Health nurse inspector. The webinar will be facilitated by OH Nurse specialists, Janet O’Neill of the National School of Occupational Health and Emma Karagkevrekis representing Society of Occupational Medicine.
 

Chair: Janet O'Neill

FREE for ALL. You will then be sent the link to join via Teams.

Two-day annual OH seminar from The At Work Partnership (supported by The Colt Foundation)

Workplace Health 2025: Tuesday 7th – Wednesday 8th October 2025
Chesford Grange Hotel, Warwickshire & Online

Chaired by: Dr John Ballard, Occupational Health [at Work] with Dr Nerys Williams, independent occupational physician

Book and pay by 8 August 2025 and save up to £75+VAT with early bird rates

Join The At Work Partnership for one of the most exciting OH events of the year! Each day of the engaging 2-day conference from 7th-8th October 2025 will explore some of the most significant issues in OH practice that affect your work as an OH professional.

Workplace Health 2025, taking place at the Chesford Grange Hotel in Warwickshire and online, will provide an in-depth clinical and management update on the most cutting-edge occupational health issues as well as plenty of opportunities for interaction, engagement & networking at the exhibition and conference dinner on 7 October 2025.

This year’s programme features discussions by a team of fantastic expert speakers - Dr Kim Burton (keynote lecture), Noreen Tehrani, Prof John Harrison, Prof Almuth McDowall, Audrey Ludwig, Prof Diana Kloss, Dr Pippa Leighton, Lucy Smith, Dr Amanda Edgeworth, David Rogers, Prof Jo Szram and Dr John Ballard!

Key conference themes include:
• The Work-Health conversation (Key note lecture)
• Psychological health surveillance
• Assessing mental health fitness for work
• Supporting neurodiversity at work
• Artificial intelligence and OH
• Evidence-based OH practice
• Driving and the role of OH
• Chronic pain management
• Occupational asthma
• Complaints against the OH professional
• Plus key OH legal hot topics, disability discrimination update and legal Q&A

Don’t miss out on savings
• Special early bird rates for places booked and paid by 8th August – save up to £75 + VAT!
• SAVE £45 + VAT when you book the full conference package, which includes the 2-day conference, plus B&B and dinner on 7th October

Click here for more information and to book your place online.

This registration page is for online attendance only.

SOM Leadership Conference 2025 - Leading in challenging climates

SOM leadership event with the National Forum for Health & Wellbeing at Work

Thursday 9th October 9.15am-5.00pm, Online

An inclusive day for all disciplines offering inspiration to develop your leadership skills.

Current challenges are on many levels – margins are tight, AI is emerging, and geopolitical and social uncertainty is affecting business. What skill sets are needed for the future? What are the business cases we need? This day will pull the above themes through highlighting the need to work in a multidisciplinary way.

The agenda is as follows:

9.15-9.20am Welcome - Dr Lanre Ogunyemi & Dr Vicky Mason

9.20-10.05am Leading in challenging climates and managing in a digital age

Armchair conversation with Professor Sir Cary Cooper, CBE and Dr Richard Heron. Chair: Dr Vicky Mason  

10.05-10.50am Learning from Neurodivergent Leaders - Inclusivity for all

Managing challenging situations - learning from neurodivergent leaders and how do we integrate neurodivergence when leading? Professor Nancy Doyle with Q&A / discussion. Chair: Jo Vallom-Smith tbc

10.50-11.10am Morning break

11.10am-12.10pm Panel - My Leadership journey – what challenges did I overcome?

Dr Abeyna Jones, Jo Vallom-Smith, third speaker tbc. Chair: Dr Lanre Ogunyemi

12.10pm-12.55pm Skills in influencing and managing people and Boards in difficult situations

Dr Richard Heron. Chair: Dr Jill Crabbe tbc

12.55-1.55pm Lunch break (networking with opportunity to “mine the leaders” with speakers available to meet on a 1:1 basis - only available for in-person attendees)

1.55-2.55pm Discover your leadership competencies 

Prof Jo Yarker & Dr Nathan Palmer. Introduced by Nick Pahl, SOM CEO

Presenting the leadership competency framework with facilitated self / team discovery exercises to reflect about development needs / opportunities. What is your response to uncertainty, changing business contexts and the impact on the team’s needs?

2.55-3.40pm Leading in challenging environments- how does this feel personally? From threats do opportunities emerge?

Matt Day, NHS England, Director of clinical commissioning. Chair: Dr Hajnalka Sereg tbc

3.40-3.55pm Afternoon break

3.55-4.40pm Mitigating work-related stress

Speaker tbc. Chair: Anne Clayson

4.40pm Wrap up and close - Dr Lanre Ogunyemi

Cost: £32 non-members; £25 SOM members (please log in before registering). Trainees in all fields (doctors and AHPs) can book at the discounted rate of £17 - contact Mimi.Eyeoyibo@som.org.uk for the discount code.

All nurses, doctors, AHPs and OH professionals, including trainees and students, are welcome.

This registration page is for online attendance only. The Zoom joining link will be emailed to you upon registration.

FREE for ALL (please log in on the SOM website first). 

Summary of webinar: 

This exclusive webinar for SOM will focus on bone biology, osteoporosis, and the effect that declining hormones have on bone mineral density, and the impact of osteoporosis on women’s life and working life.  It will also discuss remedies for increasing bone mineral density and improving health span and life span! 

Presenter bio: 
Dr Bill Robertson-Smith is a bone health researcher, campaigner, and has worked for 11 years as a Senior Surgical Care Practitioner specialising in sarcoma and lower limb arthroplasty within the NHS. She completed her Doctorate in 2022, researching the oncologic outcomes of synovial sarcoma in a UK population. Her interest in bone health started a few years ago when she realised that the vast number of fragility fractures in the women that she saw within the NHS, were largely preventable. In recent times she has worked with the author and menopause campaigner Kate Muir, GP and menopause specialist Dr Radhika Vohra, and author of The Feel Good Fix Lavina Mehta MBE with Henpicked: Menopause in the Workplace, launching a national campaign “Give your bones a break”  at Bloomberg, empowering women to take charge of their bone health. She has spoken about women’s bone health on numerous podcasts and has contributed to wider literature on the importance of hormones for women’s bone health in midlife. 

Chair: Emma Persand

FREE for ALL. You will then be sent the joining link.