I have received a flyer for the Health and Wellbeing conference at Birmingham NEC in March It looks on paper to be an excellent use of 2 days and a good way to get my CPD up to speed has anyone been in previous years please (I presume this is not the first year) If you have been to this event, can you drop me a reply with a yea or nay please with your views link is www.healthatwork2012.co.uk I normally go to the Safety and Health Expo (and will be going this year) but this is heavily 'stand' orientated with some lecture areas I would like to go to IOSH (never been) but can't justify the large £500 approx fee to my company, (I/we would rather use the money on professional training for myself or the site personnel How come all these guys can put on great events cheaply but IOSH charge this amount? I'd appreciate your views on the event - thanks

Yes, those such as us who exhibit have to pay for a stand. But we would also have to pay for a stand at the IOSH conference. The difference is that the visitors come from a much wider spread and are far more numerous at Health and Wellbeing, so it is easier to justify the cost for Health and Wellbeing than for IOSH. So there is a more varied spread of different companies at this one and I believe a larger number of exhibitors. A large number of visitors = more income. Chris