The Wirral and West Cheshire Community NHS Trust would like to announce a two-day conference entitled The Third Age into the Millennium – The Future of Elderly Mental Health Care. Taking place in Chester on 22–23 November 1999, this conference is aimed at a multi-disciplinary audience working within the elderly mental health setting. Topics will include service development, nursing in the year 2000, interface between medicine and psychiatry, dementia care mapping, memory clinic and CPA and Mental Health legislation. Further information: Alison Carroll, Business Manager, Mental Health, Clatterbridge Hospital, Wirral CH63 0LN (telephone: 051 334 4000, ext 4045). CPD points: 10.