Thursday 19th November 1998

1400 ABCD Committee Meeting

1600 Registration Tea/Coffee

1630 Annual General Meeting - Members only

1830 Lecture: Professor Alan Williams, Centre for Health Economics at University of York

“Why we should discriminate against the elderly in health care”:

followed by discussion

2000 Dinner - Royal York Hotel

Friday 20th November 1998

0900 Registration Tea/Coffee

Chairman - Dr Jeremy Bending (Eastbourne)

0930 Debate: It is important to achieve good glycaemic control in gestational diabetes.

In favour: Dr Anne Dornhurst (Hammersmith Hospital)

Against: Dr Rene Page (Nottingham)

1100 Coffee

Chairman - Dr Richard Greenwood

1130 Dr Robert Turner (Oxford)

UKPDS: implications for Diabetes Care

Lunch - Royal York Hotel

Chairman - Prof. Ken Shaw

1400 Professor John Wass (Oxford).

The management of pituitary tumours

1500 Dr Michael Feher

(Chelsea & Westminster Hospitals)

The Management of Hypertension in Diabetic patients

1600 Close of Meeting

Coffee