Attended the Northwest London Research Symposium for NMAHPPs which was hosted by CATO (Clinical Academic Training Office).  The day included a welcome and opening presentation from the Lead Clinical Academic for AHPs and Imperial, followed by 2 talks from clinical academics on their journey towards research and balancing clinical roles and research roles. The afternoon involved breakout sessions of which I attended one on Outcomes measurements in clinical research and another on research or improvement. This was a fantastic opportunity for networking with many other clinical academics from a wide array of hospitals and backgrounds. Each were able to shed advice on their experiences. Valuable discussions were had with regards to ethics applications and statistical support. Many of the sessions provided good signposts to helpful and useful areas for help and support as well as networks. 
Key learning points included: 
•	Differences between and importances of PROMs and PREMs. Patient reported outcome measures vs patient reported experience measures.
•	Suggestion of categorising DNAs and alter booking accordingly, e.g. time of day and day of the week to certain cohorts of patients 
•	Introduction to core outcome measurment sets - A consensus agreed minimum set of outcomes that should be measured and reported in all clinical trials specific to a condition.