Events

The BASL Committee has decided to address today’s global challenge, and to ensure that members are offered continuing education during 2020, by developing a virtual Annual Meeting platform.

A virtual meeting will continue to provide the essential education that BASL members value and see it as a vital benefit to their membership.

In light of the COVID-19 global impact, this is the perfect opportunity for the liver care community to come together and share knowledge and collaborate through a virtual platform.

The BASL2020 Virtual Annual Meeting is shaping up to be an exciting event with world class speakers across a range of multi-disciplinary topics with sessions being held across the afternoons of 21st - 23rd September. 

REGISTRATION IS OPEN - click on the link > HERE.

Download a programme here >   Download Virtual programme - Web v4.pdf

• £60.00 - Medically Qualified (For Consultant / Surgeon / Physician)
• £12.00 - Medically Qualified in Training (SpR / Scientific Trainee / Student)
• £12.00 - Nurse / Affiliate (Nurse / Transplant Co-ordinator / Pharmacist / Other Healthcare Professional)
• £12.00 - Scientist

Key Note Lectures include: Williams-Calne Lecture; British Liver Trust Lecture; Dame Sheila Sherlock Lecture; Alex Mowat Lecture; Ralph Wright Lecture and the Andy Burroughs Young Investigator Award

This year's Annual Business Meeting will take place before the afternoons programme commences on Wednesday 23rd September from 12:45 - 13:10.  

We very much hope that our members will be able to join us for this year's BASL Annual Meeting. 

Please contact steve@basl.org.uk if you have any questions.  

Registration Now Open

This year the BLNA September meeting will take place as a virtual forum on the afternoon of Friday 25th September from 13:30 - 15:30.

The meeting will be an opportunity to explore and watch educational presentations prior to the day via a dedicated YouTube channel. 

Pre-recorded presentations include:

• Alcohol related brain injury
• Liver diseases in bite size pieces – rare diseases:
  PBC
  AIH
  Wilson’s Disease

On the day there will be Live Q&A and Polling, poster presentations from liver nurses who submitted a successful abstract to BASL / BLNA and we willl be bringing you the results of the recent BLNA member survey and asking for delegate input.

Download BLNA Sept 2020 Programme_web.pdf

We have all had a difficult 2020 in one way or another and we hope that you can join us in what is the “Year of the Nurse” to celebrate the very special and integral role of the liver nurse in caring for people with and at risk of liver disease, and to support each other going forwards.

REGISTRATION IS OPEN - click on the link > https://execbs.eventsair.com/blna-virtual-conference/blna-virtual-reg

FREE to attend for BLNA Members

• £30 for Non-Member
• Or join BLNA today for £20 and receive free registration!

The next meeting of the Immune Special Interest Group (SIG) will take place via Zoom on: 

Date: Wednesday 30th September 
Time: 13:00 - 16:00

Download a 'draft' agenda here:  Download Immune SIG meeting 30.9.20 DRAFT agenda_website.docx.pdf

Immune SIG members who want to Register for the meeting should contact kim@basl.org.uk . 

The next meeting of the End of Life SIG will take place via Zoom:

Date: Thursday 8th October
Time: 13.30pm – 16.30pm

Download a meeting programme here >  Download BASL EOL SIG Programme 8 Oct 2020.pdf

There will be presentations and discussions around the use of long term abdominal drains (including a presentation of the recent REDUCe data by Sumita Verma), the use of cirrhosis MDTs, screening tools to predict poor prognosis in end-stage liver disease and the evolution of the IQILS KPIs for palliative care in liver disease.

To Register for the meeting, or if you have any questions, please contact kim@basl.org.uk .

Save the Date

The next meeting of the Wilson's Disease Group will take place at Queen's Square, UCL, London.

More details will follow. 

Save the Date

The next CCA-UK Annual Meeting will be held on Sunday 22nd November 2020.

The meeting is being hosted at the BASO Annual Scientific Meeting, which will be held on 22-23 November 2020.  With the current Covid-19 situation and restricions on large gatherings, BASO has decided to host the 2020 BASO Annual Scientific Conference in a virtual setting.

Further details, including how to register, will follow in late September. 

Should you have any questions please contact Kim@basl.org.uk . 

Update

Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic the meeting has been moved from 15 - 17 October 2020 to 12 - 13 March 2021. 

Turkish and British Associations for the Study of the Liver (TASL-BASL) are pleased to announce a monothematic conference, “Drug-induced Liver Injury: Unresolved questions and unmet needs” in Istanbul, Turkey, on Friday 12th - Saturday 13th March 2021.  We hope that the programme will be a timely and welcome opportunity to reflect upon an area of critical importance for clinicians, researchers, scientists, pharma and other health care professionals.

Further details including a draft programme and how to register for the conference will follow.