Forthcoming Meetings
The head and neck group organises annual evidence based days and consensus days to identify and recommend best management policies on controversial topics in head and neck. Please find below more information on each year's academic offerings.

Evidence based day 2011
This meeting will explore the evidence base behind several of the supporting practices in the multi-disciplinary care of patients with head and neck cancer. These will cover issues such as psychological support, palliative care, physiotherapy, etc.

Wednesday 9th November 2011
Role of Dietetics, Psychology, Dentistry and Physiotherapy in Head and Neck Cancer
Download the programme from HERE (PDF: 50 KB)

Past Meetings

Consensus day 5th May 2011: Management of the Occult Primary

Venue: Ruben Suite Guy’s Hospital
Conveners: Convenors: Ricard Simo, Jean-Pierre Jeannon and Richard Oakley
Download the provisional programme from here (pdf:20 KB)

Consensus day 2010

Several thorny issues exist in the management of benign salivary gland disease for which no consensus exists. This meeting took place in Manchester to explore some of these management problems. Click here to view (pdf file: 8KB)

Evidence based day 2009

This international evidence based meeting on oropharyngeal cancer was jointly organised by ENTUK HN, British Association of Head and Neck Oncologists and the North of England Cancer Network. Attended by nearly 100 senior clinicians, the meeting has had excellent feedback (mean 6.2 out of 7 ).
The lectures from this day can be downloaded from here (pdf: 18 MB).
Click here for the programme (pdf:458 KB).

Consensus Day 2009

This day followed the national survey performed under the aegis of ENTUK. This survey, click here to view
(pdf file: 70 KB) showed considerable variation in practice. To identify best practice, a consenus day was organised in Coventry, which was attended by otorhinolaryngologists and pathologists.
The recommendations from the meeting can be found here (pdf file 71KB).

Consensus Day 2008

This day was organised to disseminate best practice in the endoscopic resection of early glottic cancer.
The recommendations from this meeting can be found here (pdf file: 83 KB)