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Lipid Management in the Real World

Beverley Bostock
Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Mann Cottage Surgery
Symposium Speaker - Dr Paul Downie
Consultant Lipidologist/Chemical Pathologist
Tuesday 11 February 2025
Start Time: 19:30 |
Finish Time: 21:30
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2 hours CPD
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Learning Objectives

  • Understand why we manage lipid disorders, including their impact on cardiovascular health and patient outcomes
  • Learn how to effectively manage lipid disorders
  • How to deal with statin reluctance
  • Gain insights into initiating and conducting group consultations for lipid management
  • Engage in all objectives through a case-study based approach, ensuring practical, real-world application

Meet the Speakers

Beverley Bostock
Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Mann Cottage Surgery
PCCS President Elect
Editor in Chief, Practice Nurse Journal

Bev is an Advanced Nurse Practitioner in long-term conditions.  She is currently President Elect of the Primary Care Cardiovascular Society.  She has a special interest in cardiovascular disease (CVD), diabetes, heart failure, chronic kidney disease and lipid management along with common comorbidities such as metabolic liver disease, asthma and COPD.  She is Editor in Chief of Practice Nurse Journal and has been a Queen’s Nurse since 2015. In a previous role she developed and delivered accredited modules in cardiovascular disease, heart failure and diabetes in collaboration with the Open University.  As well as holding an MA in Medical Ethics and Law and an MSc in Respiratory Care, Bev has a Post Graduate Diploma in Diabetes from the University of Warwick.  Bev has had an extensive range of articles published in various journals on the management of long-term conditions and is a regular speaker at national conferences.

Symposium Speaker - Dr Paul Downie
Consultant Lipidologist/Chemical Pathologist

Dr Downie is a Consultant Lipidologist/Chemical Pathologist at the University Hospitals of Bristol NHS Foundation Trust. This is a busy tertiary centre which looks after patients with common lipid disorders as well as rarer lipid conditions including Homozygous FH. Bristol has an active research programme and Dr Downie is currently a principal investigator and sub-investigator on several large several large cardiovascular trials. Dr Downie’s particular areas of interest include optimisation of lipids in secondary prevention, lipoprotein(a), apheresis and in particular hypertriglyceridemia, having established the only NGS assay in the UK (now included in the National Genomics Test Directory) for the investigation of genetic causes of severe hypertriglyceridemia.

In addition he was until recently a specialist CVD advisor for the West of England Health Innovation Network and is also regional Training Programme Director for Chemical Pathology in the South West.

Formerly a GP partner he also understands the challenges faced by colleagues in general practice and is passionate about the critical need to bring a pragmatic approach to patient care. He enjoys working with primary care colleagues to help optimise community CV risk management.  

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