Home Mechanical Ventilation (HMV) UK Meeting 2025

Guy’s and St Thomas’ HMV UK Meeting provides a multi-disciplinary network for established clinicians and healthcare professionals that are either caring for patients dependent on home mechanical ventilation, or that have an interest in continual care using highly advanced specialist technologies

Programme overview

The HMV UK Meeting provides a multi-disciplinary network for established clinicians and healthcare professionals that are either caring for patients dependent on home mechanical ventilation, or that have an interest in continual care using highly advanced specialist technologies.

This meeting offers an invaluable opportunity to learn more about the latest advances in the management of children and adults with chronic respiratory failure. The HMV UK Meeting is also renowned for providing respiratory professionals and experts from around the country with the opportunity to network and knowledge share.

Highlights for 2025

Who should attend

This one-day meeting is ideal for those working with patients with chronic respiratory failure. This includes, but is not limited to, consultants in respiratory and critical care, rehabilitation medicine, sleep medicine and neurology, specialist registrars, therapists and clinical nurse specialists.

Format

The meeting brings experts from around the UK to present lectures, clinical trial updates, case studies, and interactive Q&A sessions. HMV UK has been designed to provide many opportunities for open discussions between healthcare professionals.

Latest Agenda

08.30 – 09.00

Coffee and Exhibitor Viewing

09.00 – 09.15

Welcome and introduction

  • Patrick Murphy, Martin Latham and Liam Campbell

09.15 – 09.45

Best of JIVD

  • Darcy Tresize and Jane Smith

09.45 – 10.30

Telemonitoring in HMV: Clinical trial data to real world practice

  • Capucine Morelot

10.30 – 11.00

Refreshment Break

11.00 – 11.40

Laryngoscopy in MIE: When and why to get out the scope

  • Sarah Wallace

11:40 – 12:20

Home HFT in COPD: why we use it and how we achieved it

  • Anna Taylor, Lorna Hickey, Eve Walker

12.20 – 13.30

Lunch, Exhibition and Networking

13.30 – 14.10

CCHS: optimal management in adult service

  • Ajit Thomas

14.10 – 14.30

Patient / parent experience of transition

  • Patient speaker

14.30 – 14.50

Diaphragm pacing: what to know before you start

  • Martin Samuels

14:50 – 15:00

Drug treatment trials MND

  • Maria Stavrou

15:00 – 15:30

Gastrostomy feeding in MND: which patients, when and how?

  • Sean White

15.30 – 16.00

Refreshment Break

16:00 – 17:00

4×15 minute abstracts

17:00 – 17:15

Summation and close

How to book

Book here via Eventbrite

Prize Competition

Are you working on innovative service developments, quality improvement projects, or ground-breaking research in home mechanical ventilation? Submit your work for a chance to showcase your contributions at HMV 2025!

This competition is open to all applicants, and we invite abstracts (max 400 words) outlining new, unpublished work in HMV. Shortlisted candidates will be invited to present their findings in a 15-minute session at HMV 2025 on Friday, 27 June 2025.

Key Details

Prizes

Seize this opportunity to share your work with leading experts in HMV. Apply now!

GSTT Event Photography Oncology at the on the 25/06/2018. Photo: David Tett

Interested in sponsoring this event?

Sponsor and exhibitor opportunities are available for 2025

HMV UK Meeting attendee

The conference was very well organised and really good

HMV UK Meeting attendee

Great conference – thank you!

HMV UK Meeting attendee

Brilliant conference as ever with excellent content

HMV UK Meeting attendee

Very good with good content and good speakers

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