South West Division Biannual Meetings

• Forthcoming Meetings
• Previous Meetings

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Forthcoming Meetings

• Spring Biannual Meeting - 'Psychiatry at a time of war'
  Friday, 14th May 2010 at St Cuthbert's Conference Centre,
  Buckfastleigh
  Speakers to include:
  
   
  Simon Weston OBE, Falklands Veteran
  
  Professor Ian Palmer
  

  Professor Neil Greenberg

  Dr Walter Busuttil

  Dr James Thompson           

  Dr Derek Summerfield

  Professor C Brewin
  
  Please click on the link below to access the application form:
  
  Programme and application form 
  
  
• Autumn Biannual Meeting - 'Managing mood - from cradle to grave'
  Friday, 12th November 2010 - Bristol - venue to be confirmed
  
  Leaflets will be circulated during September

Previous Meetings

Autumn Biannual Meeting
Friday, 27th November 2009 at the Bristol Marriott Royal Hotel
'On the frontier - doing psychiatry in unfamiliar settings'
We returned to the Bristol Marriott Royal Hotel for the autumn meeting.  This was, yet again, another stimulating day with excellent speakers in the morning and after lunch, followed by workshops.  Feedback from the meeting said it was 'inspiring'.

Presentations will be available to download shortly

Talks

• Mental health among ethnic minority groups in the UK: Vulnerability and resilience
  Professor Stephen Stansfeld
• Working with asylum seekers
  Dr Damian Taylor and Dr Susanne Wille
• Community Mental Health Teams in prisons
  Professor David Mumford and Paula May

• Therapeutic community based approaches
  Nick Benefield

Workshops

• Engaging your migrant communities
  Dr Christopher Fear and Simon Thompson
• Court assessment and referral service: How it works in practice
  Paula May, Lynn Emslie and Anita Gukhool
• Working with older adults from ethnic minority groups
  Dr Anish Patel and Phoebe Whishaw
• Treating sick doctors
  Dr Paul Aylard
• Prisons and Learning Disabilities
  Dr Shamim Dinani and Wendy Goodman
• Fabricated or induced illness in a child by a carer: Possible roles for the psychiatrist?  Presentation not available
  Dr Christopher Bools
  

Summer Conference

19th June 2009, Redwood Lodge Hotel, Bristol

'Yes we can! Improving mental health services in the south west'

This was a stimulating and thought provoking day, with excellent speakers in the morning and a choice of workshops in the afternoon.

You can download the presentations by clicking on the title.

Talks

• Developing Mental Health and Learning Disability Services in the South West
  Sir Ian Carruthers
• What do Service Users want from their Clinical Leaders
  Ms Diane Bardsley (available on application)
• South West ambitions for Mental Health and Learning Disabilities
  Dr Denise Cope
• Defining professional roles for psychiatrists
  Professor Dinesh Bhugra
• New Horizons
  Dr Susan O'Connor (available on application)

Workshops

• Stakeholder engagement
  Paddy Cooney and Ms Diane Bardsley
• Developing the roles of psychiatrists
  Professor Dinesh Bhugra
• Developing clinical leaders
  Louise Buckle
• Turning round a dysfunctional team
  Dr Guy Undrill and Nathan Gregory
• Changing Services through Risk Management
  Dr Peter Aitken, Dr Helen Smith and Iain Tulley
• Outcome measures: driving service provision
  Dr Martin Elphick

Spring Biannual Meeting 2009
27th March 2009, St Cuthbert's Conference Centre, Buckfastleigh
‘Suicide and deliberate self harm: Local and current developments’
We returned yet again to Buckfastleigh for this year's Spring meeting.  It was
a thought provoking day, with excellent speakers followed by workshops. 

You can download the PowerPoint presentations by clicking on the title.  Additional presentations will be added in due course.

Talks

• Developments in the epidemiology in suicide and deliberate self harm
  Professor David Gunnell
• Lay understanding of suicide and deliberate self harm
  Dr Christabel Owens
• The role of the internet on suicide
  Paul Kelly
• Psychodynamic factors in suicide and self harm
  Dr Robert Hale

Workshops

• Talking about self harm from the lived and carer perspective
  Mrs Elaine Hewis
• Is there life after death? What relevance to suicide?
  Dr Andrew Clark
• Role of media in suicide
  Paul Kelly
• Identifying and overcoming barriers to help-seeking
  Dr Christabel Owens
• Nurse led self harm assessment in the District General Hospital
  Paul Chrichard and Mandy Haddock