Call For Papers
This is our official call for papers for Making Space – Emergency Care Conference 2024.
We’d love to hear from you.
Making space – literally, metaphorically, and psychologically, is both challenging and critical right across emergency care.
We, as health professionals, need space to process and recover from the emotional payload of what we do.
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.
100+
Delegates
25
Speakers
2
Days of fun
Submit your abstract
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 – we all make the emergency care service, and some of the best ideas come from people doing the work. 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.
We are particularly keen to get papers around the broad theme of making space
Themes Include: (but are not limited to)
- Creative ways of working / dealing with pressures
- Looking after each other
- Clinical Care
- Collaborative working
- Case studies
- Sharing best practice
- Considering specific patient groups – mental health, paediatrics, older people, trauma etc.
- Leadership
- Social implications for Emergency Care
- Workplace wellbeing
- Managing aggression
- Climate change as a health emergency
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.
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.