Thursday 14^th November

08.30	Registration opens
09.00	Welcome Caroline Overton, Chair, Association of Early Pregnancy Units
	Session 1 Lifestyle and Nutrition in Pregnancy (Preparing for a Healthy Pregnancy) Chair: Caroline Overton
09.00	Obesity, reproductive health & strategies for helping with weight loss. Julian Barth, Clinical Biochemist, Leeds General Infirmary
09.20	Socio-economic status and risk of miscarriage. Noreen Maconochie, Epidemiologist, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (TBC)
09.40	Nutrition in pregnancy. What advice should we give our patients? Janet Cade, Professor of Nutritional Epidemiology and Public Health University of Leeds
10:00	Questions & discussion
10.20	Break and Exhibition
	Session 2      Chair: Jackie Ross, Consultant, Early Pregnancy Medicine and Gynaecology, Kings College Hospital, London
10.50	Free Communications
12.30	Plenary Lecture Human Implantation: maternal and fetal attraction. Jan Brosens, Professor at  Division of Reproductive Health, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick
13.00	Lunch
	Session 2   Let’s talk about bloods Chair: Cecilia Bottomley, Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London
14.00	hCG and the science behind a pregnancy test. Sarah Johnson, Swiss Precision Diagnostics GmbH, Geneva, Switzerland
14.20	What is the role of hCG in the management of suspected early pregnancy failure? Nora Van Mello, Research fellow, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Amsterdam (TBC)
14.40	Progesterone and diagnosis of miscarriage. Ioannis Gallos, Research Fellow, School of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham
15.00	Discussion
15.20	Tea
	Session  4    Chair: Davor Jurkovic, Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, University College London Hospitals
15.40	Free Communications
16.30	Debate: Couples should be investigated after two consecutive miscarriages. Roy Farquharson, Consultant in Obstetrics and. Gynaecology at Liverpool Women's. Hospital and Siobhan Quenby , Professor of Obstetrics Honorary Consultant Obstetrician,  Warwick University

Friday 15^th November

08.30	Registration opens
08.30	Annual General Meeting of the Association of Early Pregnancy Units
	Session 5  Complications in Early Pregnancy Chair: Emma Kirk, Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, Whittington Hospital, London
09.00	How should we  diagnose and manage Caesarean scar pregnancy? Davor Jurkovic, Early Pregnancy Clinical Study Group, Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, University College, London
09.20	The effect of bleeding in early pregnancy bleeding on outcome - what should we tell women? Jemma Johns, Consultant Obstetrician and gynaecologist at King's College Hospital, London.
09.40	Congenital uterine anomalies and risk of miscarriage. Consultant Gynaecologist and Fertility (Unit Lead), Royal Derby Hospital
10.00	Discussion
10.20	Coffee
	Session 6 Free Communications – cases to remember Chair: (TBC)
12.40	Early pregnancy following assisted conception. Adam Balen, Professor at Leeds Centre for Reproductive Medicine, Leeds University
13.00	Lunch
	Session 7 Early Pregnancy Manual Chair: (TBC)
14.00	When should we suspect sepsis? Marjory MacLean, Consultant Obstetrician and Lead Clinician for Early Pregnancy, Ayrshire. Maternity Unit, University Hospital Crosshouse
14.10	Ovarian cysts in early pregnancy.  Judith Hamilton, Consultant. Gynaecologist St Thomas’ Hospital, London
14.20	Diagnosis of incomplete miscarriage. Emma Kirk, Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, Whittington Hospital, London
14.30	How good is my unit? Maria Memtsa, University College Hospital, London
14.40	Discussion
14.50	Free Communication Awards
15.10	Tea
	Session 8 Implementation of NICE guidelines – 1 year on Chair: (TBC)
15.30	NICE guideline – A success story? Caroline Overton, Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, University Hospitals, Bristol
15.50	Non-implementation of aspects of the guideline – Procedures and possible consequences. Jackie Ross, Consultant, Early Pregnancy Medicine and Gynaecology, Kings College Hospital, London
16.10	Life post NICE – Recent developments and impact on future practice. Suzie Hollamby, West Middlesex University Hospital
16.30	Discussion
16.50	Summary and close of meeting