Events
AAPT Annual Educational Event 2025
The Annual Educational Event (AEE) 2025 is a one-day conference designed specifically to enhance the professional development of APTs, mortuary assistants and other related professionals.
The experiences of APTs vary according to workplace, speciality, and geographical location and this event offers a platform to bring everyone together. The focus is to provide a safe, confidential, understanding, learning environment and also give everyone the opportunity for networking with likeminded, and/or completely random professionals who you may otherwise never get to meet.
Our commercial exhibition is always popular and delegates can discuss with industry colleagues the latest products, and understand how they are used, particularly useful when preparing business cases to get the mortuary facility and/or equipment upgraded or modernised.
There is also an opportunity to socialise at the end of the event, this is a chance to share experiences, hear how others may have dealt with similar situations and have some well-deserved relaxation time. Many attendees use this time to network with friends & colleagues who they have linked in with previously, potentially at other AAPT events or similar, to have a debrief of their year and discuss difficulties and solutions with others who understand our unique role.
The 2025 AEE will take place on Saturday 27th September 2025 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Bristol City Centre, Redcliffe Way, Redcliffe, Bristol, BS1 6NJ
Commercial Partner Registration Form
Programme
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09.00-09.45 |
Registration, Coffee, and Commercial Exhibition |
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09.45-09.50 |
Welcome to AEE 2024 |
John Pitchers, AAPT Chair |
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09.50-10.30 |
The Journey From the Crime Scene to the Mortuary |
Martin Cuffe, Crime Science Coordinator, Crime Command – Forensic Services, Gloucestershire Constabulary |
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10.30-11.15 |
New ways of regulatory assessment |
Martin Goddard, Regulation Manager, HTA |
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11.15-11.45 |
Coffee/Tea and Commercial Exhibition |
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11.45-12.15 |
Abstract Presentations A Comparison of Causes of Death and Socio-economic Status: Essex vs. Suffolk Lucy Bridle-Thorne RSciTech MAAPT Mortuaries, Morgues and Autopsies - Can we have a quick word? Barry Knight FAAPT and Sacha Derrick FAAPT |
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The effects of using mutual aid to provide a regional perinatal pathology service Sarah Davis FAAPT |
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12.15-12.45 |
The process of death certification – the journey for the bereaved and the deceased |
Daisy Shale MSc CSci FIBMS RCPathMEO, Lead Medical Examiner Officer for Wales |
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12.45-13.45 |
Lunch, Commercial Exhibition and Poster Viewing |
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13.45-14.30 |
Funeral Wishes & Trends: What Does The Future Hold? |
Dr Kate Woodthorpe, University of Bath's Centre for Death & Society |
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14.30-15.15 |
UKDVI – Introduction and Role |
Lynzi Lefort, National Disaster Victim Identification Unit |
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15.15-15.30 |
Coffee/Tea and Commercial Exhibition |
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15.30-16.15 |
‘The Dawn of the Victorian Mortuaries to the Rise of the APT’ |
Barry Knight FAAPT, APT Locum |
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16.15-16.30 |
Closing Remarks |
Professor Michael Osborn, AAPT President, Imperial College |
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16-30-17.00 |
AAPT Annual General Meeting 2025 |
Chaired by John Pitchers FAAPT |
Confirmed Exhibitors
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- Medical Examiner Update 2020
- Winter Laboratory Preparedness Webinar
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