Free symposium for healthcare professionals From Spire Healthcare

This is an exclusive, in-person CPD experience for health care professionals. It brings together a range of specialties who will host talks, demo’s and work shops.

First of its kind – Free symposium for healthcare professionals on Saturday 9 May 2026.

• Hear from local leading consultants on a range of topics pertinent to primary care
• Test your hand eye co-ordination on two robotic-assisted systems; da Vinci and Mako, these robot-assisted surgical systems are able to perform complex operations through smaller incisions, giving patients benefits such as reduced pain and discomfort, shorter hospital stays and faster recovery times

Venue: The Jockey Club
Newmarket Racecourse CB8 0TF
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Time: 8.30am registration, 3pm close

Cost: Free including parking and refreshments

• Miss Ivilina Pandeva – Consultant Gynaecologist and Subspecialist Urogynaecologist mixed urinary incontinence, supporting patients understand their choice in modern management

• Mr Antony Riddick – Consultant Urologist Diagnosis, management and referral of common urological conditions in general practice

• Mr Siong-Seng Liau – Consultant Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgeon Gallstone disease: specialist perspectives for general practice in today’s evolving clinical landscape

• Prof Irshad Shaikh – Consultant General and Colorectal Surgeon When things bulge or fall: understanding hernias and rectal prolapse

• Mr Daud Chou – Consultant Orthopaedic Hip, Knee and Pelvic Surgeon. What’s fact, what’s fiction, what’s future and what’s now? A guide for GP’s to help patients understand advances in treatment and approaches

• Mr Heman Joshi – Consultant Robotic Colorectal Surgeon, Beyond the scope: what’s new in FIT, AI and colorectal pathways for primary care