North East London Adult Critical Care - Annual Network Meeting 2025

Welcome to the 2025 North East London Adult Critical Care Annual Network Meeting!

Join us on Friday 7th November 2025, for an exciting in-person education day at the Mile End Education Centre at Mile End Hospital.

This will be a day of clincal education, with a series of talks from guest speakers, interactive disucssion and participation, breakout group work on key topics, and announcement of the winners of the abstract competition!

You will also get the oppotunity to connect with fellow critical care professionals, share insights, and stay up-to-date with the latest developments in the field. Don't miss this opportunity to network, learn, and grow together. We look forward to seeing you there!

This event is open and free to everyone working in critical care.

Please register your place by 10th October 2025.

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This event is proudly sponsored by B Braun, Ambu, and Talar Made.

Call for Abstracts - Competition

You are invited to present your completed research, literature review, or practice-related projects at the upcoming North East London Adult Critical Care Network – Annual Network Meeting 2025.

Eligibility: Any individual working within critical care at either Barts Health, Homerton Healthcare, or Barking, Havering and Redbridge NHS Trust (Trusts that are part of the North East London Adult Critical Care Network) is eligible to submit an abstract.

How to enter: Applicants should submit an abstract between 350 – 500 words. The word count does not include the title or references.

Topics: Please consider which topic your abstract best fits into:

• Research
• Quality improvement
• Service development
• Service evaluation
• Literature review
• Case study report

Please use the abstract structure as follows:

Introduction or background – a brief introduction, or the background of why you chose to carry out your particular research/project, linked to key policy or journal references as appropriate.

Aims & objectives – the aim is what you were trying to achieve overall; the objectives are the key pointers you wish to achieve in order to demonstrate you have achieved your aim.

Method – describe the type of study, e.g. whether it was a qualitative or quantitative study; then whether it was research, audit, or a practice-based project.

Results – state your findings.

Conclusion – discuss your findings in their immediate context relating to the literature base; draw conclusions from your findings and describe the implications.

References - Use Vancouver style referencing, where each reference is numbered in order of use.

Abstracts are reviewed anonymously, so please do not include any identifying information on the abstract, such as the names or authors or organisation. You will be able to add the authors and co- authors in an email when making submission. Please declare whether this abstract has been submitted to another conference or educational forum.

**Nursing Critical Care Course students - Literature review

(Poster submission only)**

If the literature review has been completed as part of undertaking critical care course, please select this option. This submission will then be entered into the Nursing Critical Care Course poster competition and best e-posters will be awarded. Attendance for ANM is not mandatory for the submitters.

Judging criteria:

A multi-disciplinary panel of judges will shortlist applications from the submitted abstracts to be invited to present a poster at the Annual Network Meeting. Each abstract will be judged on objective evidence on the following criteria:

Abstract title: Does the title fully represent the study and the method used?

Introduction: Is the introduction clear and is this piece of work relevant to understanding or advancing the care of critical care patients.

Aims: Are the aims clear?

Methods: Were the objectives, design and methods of this piece of work informed by a sound rationale?

Results: Are the main findings clearly described and supported with evidence?

Conclusion: Do the conclusions match the findings?

How to submit the abstract:

All applications should be submitted electronically to nel.accnetwork@nhs.net.

Closing date for the abstract submissions will be date 26th September 2025.

A multidisciplinary panel of judges will consider the applications, and shortlisted applicants will be contacted after date 10th October 2025.

Shortlisted applicants submit your e-posters by 24th October 2025.

E-posters are typically displayed in portrait orientation and submit your e-poster as a PowerPoint or PDF file and keep the file size under 5MB.

All abstract submitters are welcome to attend the Annual Network Meeting, however, successful abstract submitters must attend and will need to register by Friday 7th November 2025.

The best three e-posters will be awarded at the ANM.

Please register to attend via this EventBrite page.