Faec Meet 2025 Agenda

Thursday 5th June 2025

  • Collect your name badge from the registration desk. Enjoy complementary light refreshments whilst awaiting the conference start.

  • Welcome and opening remarks.

  • The evolving English Bowel Cancer Screening Programme

    Sally C Benton Consultant Biochemist and Southern Hub Director, Bowel Cancer Screening Programme


    Duel FIT approach in Lancashire & South Cumbria

    Dr Natalie Hunt Consultant Clinical Scientist, East Lancashire Teaching Hospitals

    Transition to GP distribution across Cheshire West & the use of Stockhub to implement this

    Lucy Kirkham Blood Sciences Operational Manager, Countess of Chester Hospital


    Q&A Panel discussion

  • Hot and cold three course buffet served in the Conference Aston Restaurant

  • New strategies to improve precision and specificity of FIT test for CRC screening

    Cristina Miracle Huguet Translational, Epidemiological and Clinical Oncology researcher, Hospital Universitari Sant Joan de Reus, Tarragona. Bowel Cancer Screening Programme manager, Tarragona province, Spain

    Faecal Calprotectin: To test or not to test

    Gemma Hunter Trainee Clinical Scientist, East Lancashire Teaching Hospitals

    Using combination OC-Sensor Faecal Calprotectin and FIT to diagnose Inflammatory Bowel Disease

    Dr Rebecca Smith Inflammatory Bowel Disease Research Fellow, Royal Devon and Exeter University Hospitals NHS FT

    Q&A Panel discussion

  • Introducing four posters titled:

    • Stability testing of faecal calprotectin in the OC-Sensor sample collection bottle 

    • Faecal immunochemical test (FIT) EQAS: the IFCC FIT Working Group survey 

    • Faecal haemoglobin stability using a new OC-Sensor sample extraction buffer 

    • Investigation into the OC-Sensor Pledia for the measurement of Faecal Calprotectin in the diagnosis of Inflammatory Bowel Disease

  • A selection of hot and cold drinks with light snacks

  • Join us for a round table discussion on either of these two topics:

    Access and Attitudes: A Patient-Centric Look at FIT and at Home Testing Kits

    Conference Room 1A

    • What techniques can be employed to increase participation in FIT?

    • What impact do off the shelf home test kits have on patients, and our public health system?

    • How can we reach isolated patient groups, for example the homeless community?

    • What is OUR perception of FIT? And how does it differ to patient perceptive?

    From Innovation to Impact: Effective Implementation of Emerging Technologies

    Conference Room 1B

    • Where can FIT testing go now and what research is ongoing?

    • How receptive are we to innovation within public healthcare…truthfully?

    • How well do departments interact with eachother to implement new technologies and how can it be improved?

    • What role do microbiome and multi-cancer blood tests have?

  • Closing remarks and conference end by 16:30

* Programme contents and times may change prior to the event