NHS England East of England Autumn Symposium

Returning Face to Face on Tuesday 30 September and Wednesday 1 October 2025

Bookings to go live 1PM on 07/08/2025

The Autumn Symposium runs once annually and provides faculty development for postgraduate educators from the East of England, offering a valuable opportunity to learn, develop, network and share best practice.

Please save the date for the next Autumn Symposium, which will be taking place face to face on Tuesday 30 September and Wednesday 1 October at Victoria House, Fulbourn, Cambridge, CB21 5XB. The theme of this event will be 'Futureproofing Medical and Dental Education’.

Bookings will go live at 1PM on Thursday 7 August, where booking links will be added to this page.

Bookings will be on a first-come, first-serve basis and in order to accommodate as many delegates as possible, we ask that you sign up for one day only.

This event is open to east of England Educators from across all specialties and all tiers of training:

Associate Deans, Heads of School, Training Programme Directors, College Tutors, Directors of Medical Education, Educational Supervisors, Clinical Supervisors, OOH Clinical Supervisors, Trainees (1st steps to becoming educators) and representatives from the non-medical workforce.

If you have any questions, please contact england.eandtevents.eoe@nhs.net.

For information and resources from past events, please see archived information below.

For information on our Spring Symposium, please click here.

Archived 2024

East of England Deanery Update Day, 22 (AM) and 23 (PM) October 2024

Two duplicated virtual half day update sessions took place on the afternoon of Tuesday 22 October and the morning of Wednesday 23 October. The same content was delivered on both days in order to provide as much flexibility and attendance as possible. The days offered a fixed programme of MS Teams sessions in a lecture style format, where attendees could drop-in and out as relevant.

The recording from Wednesday 23 October can be found here or viewed below. The content from Tuesday 22 October was the exact same.

Video Timestamps:

Clicking each title below will also open the relevant presentation:

Expansion and Redistribution: 5:00 – 35:42

Professional Support and Well-being Service: 35:47 – 01:00:23

Assessment, Revalidation and ARCP’s : 01:00:23 – 01:18:04

Quality: 01:18:28 – 01:40:25

Educator Approval Pathway: 01:40:52 – 02:14:22

Senior Leadership Team Update and Q&A: 02:14:22 – 02:58:0

Archived 2023

The theme for our 2023 event was 'Reset, Rethink, Reimagine' and around 400 educators and trainees joined us across three days to learn, develop and network in our first face-to-face Symposium since 2019.

Below you can view the agenda from each of the days, along with some of the presentations that were shared from our excellent keynote speakers and workshop facilitators.

Agendas

Tuesday 10 October

Wednesday 11 October

Thursday 12 October

Presentations

Our speakers have kindly agreed for these to be shared but if using any of the content, please ensure the individuals are credited.

Tuesday 10 October

Keynote, Flip It Thinking, Dave Keeling

Keynote, The Relevance of Diversity and Reflection for Healthcare Educators, Prof Nisha Dogra

Navigating the impact of MAPs on Postgraduate Medical Education, Dr Nigel Penfold

Quality for Medical Educators – how are you doing, Dr C O’Loughlin and Dr N Nathwani

Assessing Examination Skills in GP Trainees, Dr P Wright and Dr J Kanhai

Wednesday 11 October

Keynote, NHS Practitioner Health, Dr Zaid Al-Najjar

Application & Interview Skills Workshop, Dr A Von Essen and Dr N Joglekar

Preparing your GP trainee for success in the SCA, Dr A Sulakshana & Dr K Kothari

Supporting Trainers of Trainees in difficulty, Dr Subir Ghosh

Supporting Trainees involved in a serious incident, Dr D Braganza and Dr C O'Loughlin

Inclusivity in the Workplace, The Kite Trust

Thursday 12 October

Keynote, Leveraging Simulation in the Post Covid World, Prof Makani Purva

Keynote, Reimagining Simulation, Dave Halliwell

Career Progression for Educators, Dr Chris O'Loughlin

Supporting Trainees in Difficulty, Dr Abigail Taylor

Blended Learning in General Practice, Dr Abigail Taylor

Archived 2022

Autumn Seminar 2022

NHS England - East of England's 2022 Virtual Autumn Seminar took place on the 28th September

The event Programme can be found here: Autumn Symposium 2022 Programme

Archived 2021

HEE EoE Autumn Symposium

28, 29 & 30 September 2021

‘Reflecting on Learning from Difficult Times’

Recordings from Event and Pre-Recorded Resources

Please see our programme attached here and links to all recordings/resources will be posted below in the coming weeks.

Day One - Tuesday 28th September

Tier 4 & 5 Educators (all specialties)

Day Two - Wednesday 29th September

Tier 2 & 3 Educators (all specialties)

Day Three - Thursday 30th September

Tier 1, 2 & 3 Educators (all specialties)

Please see some of our trainee presentation abstract submissions for this year.

Archived 2020

HEE EoE Virtual Autumn Symposium – 15, 16 & 17 September 2020

‘What went well… Even better if’

Our Autumn Symposium will be a virtual event this year due to current circumstances.

Recordings from Event and Pre-Recorded Resources

Recordings are no longer available

Slides:

Here below the slides provided by the speakers. We will update this section as soon as further slides have been made available.

- Leadership in Clinical Practice - Chrishan Gunasekera

- Debriefing in QI - Kenneth Spearpoint

- Practitioner Health and Personal Wellbeing - Martin Von Fragstein

- FLASH In-situ Sim Project - Rasheed Kaja Mohammad

- Emotionally effective Leader - Kate Read & Rebecca Winchester

- Delivering Safe Care Today - John Dean

Please direct any questions to educatorsfaculty.eoe@hee.nhs.uk.

Archived 2019

Autumn Seminar 2019

‘Learning Today for a Better Tomorrow’

Health Education England East of England's 2019 Autumn Seminar will take place on the 17, 18 and 19 September, at Granta Centre, Grant Park, Great Abington, Cambridge.

The Autumn Seminar provides faculty development for postgraduate educators from the East of England, offering a valuable opportunity to learn, develop, network and share best practice.

The days include a combination of keynote speeches and a number of interactive workshops.

Both days are open to East of England educators across all specialties, however each day focused on a different target audience. Please see the below table for further details:

Programme

Tuesday 17th September - Programme

Wednesday 18th September - Programme

Thursday 19th September - Programme

Presentations:

Trainees in Difficulty

Coaching and Mentoring

Urgent and Unscheduled Care Training

Resilience - Questionnaire Handout

ST3 Prescribing Assessment

Planning for Teaching

Supporting Trainers of Trainees in Difficulty

Fellowship Showcase

Archived 2018

Autumn Seminar 2018

Health Education England East of England's 2018 Autumn Seminar took place on the 26 and 27 September, at Granta Centre, Grant Park, Great Abington, Cambridge.

The Autumn Seminar provided faculty development for postgraduate educators from the east of England, offering a valuable opportunity to learn, develop, network and share best practice.

The days included a combination of keynote speeches and a number of interactive workshops.

Both days were open to east of England educators from across all specialties, however each day focused on a different target audience. Please see the below table for further details: