Looking for conferences or study days to attend over the coming year? Here are some events which may be of interest.
CCSG Research Award Webinar 29th April 1-2pm
We have recently launched our CCSG Research Award. This award is about showcasing the excellent research, audit and service evaluation projects that UK critical care dietitians are involved in. If you have been working on a project in your Trust this is a great opportunity to present your work to a wider audience.
The deadline for submissions is Thursday 19th June so get working on your abstracts now! If you would like any advice or have any questions, we will be holding a webinar with key information and a Q&A on Tuesday 29th April 1-2pm.
For details and registration follow this link
CCSJ NJ Journal Club - rescheduled to June 2025
The Critical Care Specialist Group NJ team are excited to run an NJ journal club! We will be critically appraising the following article:
'Taylor SJ, Karpasiti T, Milne D. Safety of blind versus guided feeding tube placement: Misplacement and pneumothorax risk. Intensive Crit Care Nurs. 2023; 76:103387.' View the article
As this will be an interactive session, we ask attendees to read the article prior to the journal club so we can have as many members as possible contributing to discussions. There is also a Letter to the Editor related to this article, as well as a response from the authors (both referenced and available to access through the link above), should you wish to also consider these when reviewing the article.
We will be using the JBI critical appraisal tool for narrative reviews found here: JBI Critical Appraisal Tools | JBI
Moderators
- Dr Stephen Taylor, Research Dietitian, Southmead Hospital, North Bristol NHS Trust
- Terpsi Karpasiti, Clinical Lead Critical Care Dietitian, Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospitals, Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
- Frances Greer-Rogers, Critical Care & Neurosurgical Dietitian, Southmead Hospital, North Bristol NHS Trust
- Danielle Milne, Critical Care Dietitian, Southmead Hospital, North Bristol NHS Trust
- Toby Trundle, Adult Acute Dietitian (Critical Care & TPN), The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust
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Kaylee Sayer, Critical Care Dietitian, Southmead Hospital, North Bristol NHS Trust
Free for Critical Care Specialist Group Members.
Sign up is available here.
The Basics of Critical Care Dietetics Webinar 23rd September 2025
Are you a student, new graduate, or new to the specialty of critical care? Join us for a 90-minute webinar hosted by the Critial Care Specialist Group, where we'll walk through the fundamentals of critical care dietetics.
More information including the link to register can be found here.
CCSG Annual Study Day 21st November 2025 -The Path to Recovery: Integrating Nutrition and Rehabilitation in Critical Care
Join us for the Critical Care Specialist Group’s in-person Annual Study Day taking place on Friday 21 November 2025 at The Studio in Birmingham. Follow the link here for more information and to book your ticket
Please see Annual CCSG Study Day for information on our previous study days.
CCSG Trauma Webinar
This free webinar will be run by the CCSG Trauma subgroup in late November. More details to follow.
Getting Started in Research Webinar
This webinar will be run by our CCSG research officers in January 2026. More details will be released later this year!
Introduction to Critical Care Dietetics
The very popular Introduction to Critical Care Dietetics course is back and has dates available after selling out in 2023 and 2024!
The course aims to improve your awareness of the dietetic and physiological principles that are essential to working in the critical care setting, whilst supporting you to develop the confidence required to autonomously work in this environment.
The course is divided into 2 days of pre-course learning via the BDA Learning Zone and a 1-day classroom event (virtual option available or face-to-face option at the BDA offices in Birmingham).
This course is aimed at those new to working in critical care, especially those working in isolation without a team of critical care dietitians to support them. It is aimed primarily at band 6’s and 7’s who have just moved into the specialist of critical care or having to provide clinical cover to this area. They will be working in the area but not experienced.
Topics covered broadly pertain to the following five themes:
- International guidelines and unit protocols
- Assessing nutritional risk, biochemistry and refeeding syndrome
- Metabolic response, energy and protein targets, and effects of critical illness on nutritional interventions
- Nutrition therapy routes: Enteral nutrition (EN) and Parenteral nutrition (PN), routes for EN and PN
- ICU stepdown, handover and rehabilitation
See the BDA Event calendar for upcoming dates and the Introduction to Critical Care Dietetics page for further information about the course and to book your place.
International conferences
ASPEN Nutrition Science & Practice Conference - Columbus, Ohio - 22nd-25th March 2025
https://www.nutritioncare.org/conference
Intensive Care Society State of the Art Congress - Birmingham - 1st-3rd July 2025
Intensive Care Society | SOA Homepage (ics.ac.uk)
ESPEN 47th Congress on Clinical Nutrition & Metabolism - Prague, Czechia - 13th-16th September 2025
ESICM 38th Annual Congress - Munich, Germany - 25th-29th October 2025