Tomorrow I'm reporting from the annual Nurse Practitioner Association conference in Liverpool.
Chair Jenny Aston hopes in her welcome letter that we ‘will all go home refreshed and inspired'.
She describes the two-day conference at Aintree Racecourse as offering ‘many opportunities to update your skills and hear what is happening in different parts of the UK'.
One of the events I'm most looking forward to is an optional lunch-time session tomorrow with Dr Simon Fradd, chairman of Concordia Health and former GPC negotiator.
Dr Fradd holds the record on Healthcare Republic for being the subject of our most commented story.
In March Dr Fradd exclusively told Independent Nurse that practices could offer 50% more appointments if they replaced GPs with nurses.
The abstract of his session promises: ‘The medical world is now the nurses' oyster. Concordia Health has put prescribing nurses in the front line of its organisation. The results are so dramatic they are almost unbelievable.'
Elsewhere tomorrow Dr Michelle Drage, chief executive of Londonwide LMCs and a former GPC negotiator, talks about nurses and doctors sharing common goals but achieving them in different ways.
A talk on the Advanced practice succession planning development pathway by Maggie Grundy, programme director at NHS Education for Scotland, Aberdeen, and Janet Corcoran, lead practitioner for professional role and development, NHS Lothian, Edinburgh, is a subject close to the hearts of many of those planning to be present.
Saturday lunchtime Sue Cross, senior research fellow for primary care at London South Bank University, will talk about the future of the advanced nurse in primary care.
Read all about the content of the conference - including those dramatic and 'almost unbelievable' results potentially involving nurses replacing GPs - across Healthcare Republic, in Independent Nurse and my blog next week.