Date: 5 December 2025
Location: ICC Belfast
We are delighted for the Nurses Education Day to be returning at BAPRAS Congress 2025.
We hope you will be joining us on Friday, 5 December in Belfast for a day dedicated to the plastic surgery nursing community.
Topics covered will include:
- Role development and leadership
- Skin cancer
- Hand surgery
- Burns
- Breast reconstruction
Click here to register
The registration rate for the day is £50.
BAPRAS Nurse Members attend for free.
If you would like to attend BAPRAS Congress on Wednesday 3rd or Thursday 4th December price per day is £50, please email
Programme outline:
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08:30
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Registration
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Riverside foyer
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9.00 – 9.05
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Reena Agarwal
Claire Porter
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Welcome- from the chairs
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9.05 – 9.10
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Open the meeting
Paul McArthur
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9.10 – 9.20
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Introduction
Claire Porter
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9.20 – 9.35
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Speaker
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Plastics Trauma Clinic Journey- Northern Ireland
Linda Symington
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9.35 – 10.00
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Speaker
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Skin Cancer team – change in ways of working- Northern Ireland
Sheena Stothers
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10.00-10.10
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Abstract
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From Wales to Zimbabwe: Building a Hypospadias Surgery Service at CURE International Children’s Hospital funded by BFIRST
Louise Scannell
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10.10-10.20
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Abstract
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“BOB” the Burns Outreach Bus – From vision to reality
Sue Boasman
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10:20- 10:50
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Break
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Chair Claire Porter and Michelle McCarten
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10.50 – 11.00
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Abstract
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New ways of working /service improvement- Skin cancer
Pauline Doran- Williams
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11.00 – 11.15
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Speaker
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PADS
Louise Scannell
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11.15– 11.30
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Speaker
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Facial Palsy
Penny Graville
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11.30 – 11.40
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Abstract
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Lower limb pathway and plastics
Stephanie Brown
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11.50 – 12.05
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Speaker
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Medical tattooing- THE PIXEL NURSE
Laura Jane Powell
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12.05 – 12.15
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Talk TBC
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12.15 – 12.30
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Abstract
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Effects of Scar Massage following radiotherapy and breast reconstructive surgery
Daniel Gregson
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12.40 – 12.50
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Adult Safeguarding
Jennifer Knightingale
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12.50 – 13.00
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Talk TBC
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13:00-14:00
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Lunch
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14.00 – 14.20
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Chairs – Claire
Louise Scannell
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BFIRST Talk TBC
Clare Kelsy & Jasmine Carney
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14.20 – 14.35
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Research and Innovation
Jason Wong
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14.50 – 15.00
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Abstract
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Childrens burns trust
Jo Myers
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15.00 – 15.10
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A day in the life of a Registered Advanced Nurse Practitioner in Ireland
Jordan O'Brien
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15.10 – 15.20
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Talk TBC
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15:21
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Speaker
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Close
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