NEC bags several prizes at the BARS Conference poster and photography competition

The British Association of Retinal Screening (BARS) has been the UK’s professional organisation for those who provide retinal screening services for people with diabetes. Every year they hold the annual BARS conference in September for eye screening professionals. The 2024 BARS conference in Liverpool was a great success, attended by approximately 200 delegates.

Our screening teams are in attendance at the conference every year, not only as speakers and presenters but also participating in the various competitions, winning several prizes this year.

We won not just the 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes in the poster competition but also won three out of the five prizes in the photography competition! The 1st place in the poster competition went to the Ireland Diabetic Eye Screening Programme. See our prize winning entries below:

POSTER COMPETITION RESULTS

1st Place:
Evaluating the OCT Pathway in the Irish Diabetic Eye Screening Programme
(Ireland Diabetic Eye Screening Programme)

2nd Runner Up:
The Positive Impact of the Hospital Eye Service (HES) Recall Initiative on Patient Care
(Failsafe Team & Dorset Diabetic Eye Screening Programme)

3rd Runner Up:
R3A Referral Cohort Analysis in Our Most Deprived Area: Swindon
(BANES, Swindon & Wiltshire Diabetic Eye Screening Programme)

PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION RESULTS 

Clinical Category 
1st Place: Susan Whalley
(Screener, Central Merseyside Diabetic Eye Screening Programme)

Artistic Category
1st Place:  Jade Jones
(Screener, Central Merseyside Diabetic Eye Screening Programme)

2nd Runner Up: Diliana Nikolova
(Screener, South West London Diabetic Eye Screening Programme)

Not only these but we are also won the prize draw held by Zeiss at this year’s conference. Delegates were tasked with capturing a Macular OCT using the Cirrus HD – OCT to be in with a chance of winning a pair of Zeiss Binoculars. The winner of this was announced as Joanne Harmon, Dep. Programme Manager at the DRS programme, Ireland.

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Other poster entries by NEC:
Community Surveillance of Patients with Stable Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy
(Ireland Diabetic Eye Screening Programme)

Health Equity: Reasonable Adjustments for Persons with a Learning Disability in Diabetic Eye Screening Programme
(Central Merseyside Diabetic Eye Screening Programme)

Improving Un-assessable Rate in Central Mersey DESP
(Central Merseyside Diabetic Eye Screening Programme)

Paediatric Validation – Building Relationships with Stakeholders and the Impact on Uptake Within DESP
(Failsafe Team)

Prison Screening in CM DESP
(Central Merseyside Diabetic Eye Screening Programme) 

R0M0 To M1 In a Year: South West London DESP
(South West London Diabetic Eye Screening Programme)

Usefulness of OCT in Diabetic Eye Screening
(Central Merseyside Diabetic Eye Screening Programme)