Call For Papers
Grit, Grace, and Getting Through – exploring the realities of emergency care
7th – 8th November 2025
Stratford Manor Hotel, Stratford Upon Avon
We’d love to hear from you.
Submit your abstract
Closes on 29th August
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Clinical case studies, research, and practice reflections
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Exploring the grey areas of care – complexity, uncertainty, team dynamics, and courageous decisions.
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Personal narratives — moments of humanity, connection, fear, resilience, and the messiness of getting through.
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Wellbeing – practical tools for wellbeing, emotional agility, and reflective practice.
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Leadership – navigating behaviour, work pressure, and communisation
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Creative submissions — poetry, artwork, storytelling, or multimedia rooted in emergency care.
The conference is for people working across emergency care – papers are welcomed from pre-hospital, community, mental health, defence services and ED.
You don’t need to be well known, in a senior role, or have published research to contribute – some of our best papers come from first time speakers. If you’re doing something that benefits your patients, your colleagues, or your service we’d love to hear from you.
One of the most praised things from last year’s conference was the range and depth of topics covered. You loved the mix of clinical, leadership and wellbeing talks, regular opportunities to mix and network and the fast pace of papers.
Being able to listen to your peers and emergency care friends sharing their wisdom and experience is what makes this conference so special.
Don’t be shy or modest – get those abstracts in.
There are a number of ways you can participate:
Plenary Presentations (main stage) These are 25 mins in length to the entire audience. Papers need to have wide appeal and message (even if the subject is specialised). You don’t have to be famous in emergency care, or an accomplished speaker – some of our most engaging papers were from first time conference speakers.
Concurrent Sessions (breakout rooms) – also 25 mins in length, these suit topics that may have value for specific people rather than the whole audience. This might be because of the subject, the stage of someone’s career journey, or their specialism within emergency care. This is also a great place to start sharing your wisdom if the main stage feels a little daunting.
Workshop Sessions (practical learning) – these are 55 mins in length and are designed to be interactive and practical. They might be skills training, the opportunity to dive deeper into some form of reflective practice, or simply space to be.
Poster Presentations (you don’t even have to get in front of the audience) – if the thought of standing presenting gives you hives, but you have great work to share then this may be for you. You get to present your work in visual format – a printed poster works best, but we may also be able to accommodate electronic displays. You will be expected to be at your poster during the specific times allocated for delegates to view posters.
If you are interested in being involved, please complete this short form to submit your abstract. We’d like to know what you want to talk about, how it adds value and what sort of session you’d prefer. Abstracts should be no longer than 300 words.
The closing date for abstracts has been extended to 29th August.
If you are interested in being involved, please complete this short form to submit your abstract.
We’d like to know what you want to talk about, how it adds value and what sort of session you’d prefer. Abstracts should be no longer than 300 words.