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Scottish Society of Physicians 68th Annual Meeting

Thursday 17 - Friday 18 September 2026

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Thu 17 - Fri 18 Sep 2026 | 2 Day Event
Thu 10:00 - Fri 14:00
The Kingsmill Hotel, Inverness
Opening soon

This event is in association with the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

We are delighted to welcome you to attend this upcoming in person event in Inverness. The full programme for the event is available to view and more information about the current call for abstracts can be found below.

Call for Abstracts

Scientific & Quality Improvement Abstracts:

  • Abstracts are invited for this meeting for poster or podium presentation. SSP welcomes work on any clinical, scientific or service topic from the breadth of general medicine and its subspecialties, as well as on topics such as patient safety, quality improvement and clinical audit.
  • Abstracts will be scored and the top-scoring will be selected for oral presentation.
  • We are looking for a 10 minute case presentation, 8 minutes for presentation of the case and 2 minutes for questions from the audience.   

Case presentations:

  • Case presentations are invited for poster or podium presentation. SSP welcomes any case from General Medicine or its subspecialties that demonstrates clinical learning points that would be relevant and of interest to a general medicine audience.
  • Abstracts will be scored and the top-scoring  will be selected for oral presentation.
  • We are looking for a 10 minute case presentation, 8 minutes for presentation of the case and 2 minutes for questions from the audience.
  • It is acceptable (with any permissions if relevant) to re-use case presentations that you may have done at grand rounds / meetings in your hospital in recent past. 

Prizes:

The best presenter of a scientific abstract will be awarded the prestigious Fitzgerald Peel Prize. There are also prizes available for the best case presentation, the best poster and best student poster.

General Information:

  • The deadline for all submissions is 9am, Wednesday 13 May 2026
  • For your submission, please follow the online link to submit your abstract: https://forms.office.com/e/e1gSfxrSTG
  • The word count for an abstract is 300 words in total
  • No figures, tables or images can be submitted to this form but they can be used in any presentation on the day.
  • For case reports, ensure that you include an introduction, case summary, learning points, conclusions.
  • For scientific abstracts, please include an introduction, patients and methods, results and conclusions.
  • For QI abstracts please include introduction, patients and methods, results and conclusions.
  • SSP will contact select and notify presenters of selection in June.
  • This event is in person only and therefore accepted abstract authors will be invited to present in person at the venue. 

Sponsors

Scottish Society of Physicians (SSP) is grateful for sponsorship from the pharmaceutical companies listed through the purchase of exhibition stand space. Exhibitors/Sponsors have no influence and play no part in the planning or delivery of this event:

  • Grunenthal
  • Lilly
  • Viatris

Day 1 Thursday 17 September 2026

10:30 Registration, exhibition and refreshments

SESSION 1

Chair: 

11:00 Why you should not retire up a glen 
Dr Martin Wilson, Consultant Physician in Medicine for the Older Adult, NHS Highland
11:30 Hospital at Home
Dr Claire Steel, Consultant Physician of Medicine for the Older Adult, University Hospital Monklands, Lanarkshire & President, UK Hospital at Home Society
12:00 Functional Disorders
Dr Fiona Summers, Consultant in Clinical Psychology, NHS Grampian
12:30 Lunch, exhibition and poster viewing
13:00 Scottish Society of Physicians Annual General Meeting (SSP members only)

Session 2:

Chair details:

13:30 Topic tbc
Speaker tbc
13:40 Topic tbc
Speaker tbc
13:50 Topic tbc
Speaker tbc
14:00 Topic tbc
Speaker tbc
14:10 Topic tbc
Speaker tbc
14:20 Topic tbc
Speaker tbc
14:30 Refreshments, exhibition and poster viewing

Session 3:

Chair details:

14:50 Realistic Medicine: Critical Connections
Professor Sir Gregor Smith, Chief Medical Officer, Scottish Government
15:35 Supporting a training workforce under pressure
Dr Anna Dover, Chair, The Development & Wellbeing Service (TDWS) & Associate Postgraduate Dean for Less Than Full Time Training, NES Scotland Deanery
16:05 Green Medicine
Dr Eleanor Murray, Consultant Nephrologist, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde
16:35 Refreshments, exhibition and poster viewing

Session 4:

Chair details:

16:55

FITZGERALD PEEL LECTURE
Introduced by Dr Nicola Joss, President, Scottish Society of Physicians

Reducing Mortality in Chronic Kidney Disease
Professor Patrick Mark, Professor of Nephrology, University of Glasgow

17:40 Close
18:30 Drinks reception
19:30 Society dinner

Day 2 - Friday 18 September 2026

09:00 Registration, exhibition and poster viewing

Session 5

Chair details:

09:30 Pyrexia of Unknown Origin
Dr Wendy Beadles, Consultant in Infectious Diseases, NHS Highland
10:00 Hypertension Emergencies
Dr Iain MacIntyre, Consultant Nephrologist & Clinical Pharmacologist, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
10:30 Pulmonary embolus 
Dr Colin Church, Consultant in Respiratory Medicine, NHS Golden Jubilee National Hospital, Clydebank
11:00 Refreshments & poster viewing

Session 6: Scientific presentations/Quality Improvement presentations & presentation of awards

Chair details:

11:30 Topic tbc
Speaker tbc
11:45 Topic tbc
Speaker tbc
12:00 Topic tbc
Speaker tbc
12:15 Topic tbc
Speaker tbc
12:30 Topic tbc
Speaker tbc
12:45 Topic tbc
Speaker tbc
13:00 Topic tbc
Speaker tbc
13:15 Topic tbc
Speaker tbc
13:30 Award of Fitzgerald Peel and poster prizes
13:45 Lunch
14:30 Close of meeting
 

SSP or RCPE Member or Fellow

Standard fee

Both days (inc. lunch) One day only (inc. lunch) Both days (inc. lunch) One day only (inc. lunch)
Consultant £260 £130 £320 £190
Resident Doctor/SAS/AHP £210 £105 £240 £135
Foundation Doctor £115 £60 £145 £90
Retired £150 £75  

Medical Student

(some free places available, please enquire at SSP@societysupport.org)

  £115 £60
 

Society drinks reception & dinner ticket 

Thursday 17th September 2026

£60 per ticket

Refund Policy

If you should have to cancel your participation at this meeting 28 days before the event (after Wednesday 19 August), the registration fee will be refunded to you, thereafter no refund will be given.

Membership to the Scottish Society of Physicians

Membership is open to all NHS and Academic Physicians in General Medicine and its sub-specialties including associate specialists, specialist doctors and trainees. Associate membership is open to all Nurses & other Allied Health Professionals.

The present membership is around 400 and consists of current and retired physicians who are, or were, based in Scotland.

Membership benefits include:

  • Discounted attendance at SSP events
  • Eligibility for election to Committee
  • Eligibility for Grants and Fellowships (dependent upon availability and a successful application)
  • Subscription to the Scottish Medical Journal

More information can be found on the SSP website.

Event co-ordinator
Stephanie Hough
Telephone
Email
ssp@societysupport.org
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External Events
Thu 17 - Fri 18 Sep 2026 | 2 Day Event
Thu 10:00 - Fri 14:00
The Kingsmill Hotel, Inverness
Opening soon

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