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Hieda conference – Managing chronic medical conditions in education settings
- Date: February 10, 2022
- Time: 09:00 – 16:30
- Cost: Hieda Full Member – £185, Non-member – £370
- Audience: Healthcare professionals, medical providers and those with a responsibility for caring for a young person with a chronic medical condition in an educational setting.
- Platform: Zoom (online)

Training topics will include
- Epilepsy
- Diabetes
- Chronic fatigue/glandular fever
- Anaphylaxis and asthma.
- Guidance and inspections
- Individual health care plans
- considerations for overnight provision
Learning outcomes
- Update knowledge on chronic medical conditions
- Develop ideas and support strategies for young people coping with these conditions
- To be able to create individualised healthcare plans.
PROGRAMME
SESSION 1: 09:00 – 09:45 Welcome and an update on managing chronic fatigue
Jane Graham, Director, Hieda and Health & Wellbeing Director, BSA Group
SESSION 2: 10:00 – 11:00 Supporting students living with epilepsy
June Massey, Trustee, Epilepsy Action
11:00 – 11:30 Break
SESSION 3: 11:30 – 12:30 Managing diabetes
Kirsty Agostini, Diabetic Nurse Specialist and School Nurse
12:30 – 13:15 Lunch
SESSION 4: 13:15 – 14:15 An update on allergies and anaphylaxis (pre-recorded)
Rebecca Batt, Advanced Nurse Practitioner, The Evelina London Children’s Hospital
14:30 – 15:30 Managing Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
Jane Graham, Director, Hieda and Health & Wellbeing Director, BSA Group
15:30 – 15:45 Break
15:45 – 16:30 Understanding and supporting migraine sufferers
Una Farrell, Communications Manager, The Migraine Trust
Conference close

Trained at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, Jane has 31 years of nursing background; 17 of which is in trauma and intensive care. Whilst in PICU, she had a number of different roles. Nine years of that included a role as a specialist retrieval nurse (CATS) that entailed travelling around the country to stabilize and bring back critically unstable children. To do this she learned advanced nursing and basic medical skills in resuscitation, all medical conditions, and trauma.
She went on to teach these skills to student nurses, qualified nurses and junior doctors as the Practice educator on intensive care. This role also involved lecturing regularly at South Bank University. She has been a DSL for Safeguarding at an independent boarding school where she was Lead Nurse. She is also an instructor for Qualsafe, an awarding body approved by the HSE.
