Table 1.

UK state-of-the-art scientific conference summary

Speciality	City	Date commenced	No Days	No delegates	No abstracts accepted
Anaesthetics [44]	Edinburgh	23/09/2015	3	800	161
Breast Surgery [45]	Bournemouth	15/06/2015	2	870	221
Cardiology [46]	Manchester	08/06/2015	3	2448	235
Dermatology [47]	Manchester	06/07/2015	4	1200	372
Emergency Medicine [34]	Manchester	28/09/2015	3	650	69
Endocrinology [37]	Edinburgh	02/11/2015	3	1000	526
Gastroenterology [48]	London	22/06/2015	4	4500	1240
Primary Care [38]	Glasgow	01/10/2015	3	1600	450
General Surgery [49]	Manchester	22/04/2015	3	1500	1065
Surgery (ASiT) [50]	Glasgow	27/02/2015	3	700	602
Genitourinary Medicine [30]	Glasgow	01/06/2015	3	500	299
Geriatrics [36]	Brighton	14/10/2015	3	500	76
Haematology [51]	Edinburgh	20/04/2015	3	1000	257
Infection/Microbiology [29]	Glasgow	21/11/2015	3	1000	375
Intensive Care [52]	London	07/12/2015	3	1250	154
Nephrology [43]	London	28/05/2015	4	8190	1945
Neuro surgery [53]	York	09/09/2015	3	200	139
Neurology [33]	Harrogate	20/05/2015	3	600	194
Obstetrics & Gynaecology [54]	Brisbane	12/04/2015	4	2300	770
Ophthalmology [55]	Liverpool	18/05/2015	4	1700	228
Orthopaedics [31]	Liverpool	15/09/2015	4	1600	96
Paediatric surgery [56]	Cardiff	22/07/2015	3	346	83
Paediatrics [57]	Birmingham	28/04/2015	3	2000	546
Plastic surgery [32]	Birmingham	25/11/2015	3	400	78
Psychiatry [35]	Birmingham	29/06/2015	4	2500	79
Respiratory [58]	London	02/12/2015	3	2200	460
Rheumatology [59]	Manchester	28/04/2015	3	2000	677
Transplant surgery [60]	Bournemouth	11/03/2015	3	700	382
Urology [61]	Manchester	15/06/2015	4	1200	161
Vascular surgery [62]	Bournemouth	11/11/2015	3	800	373