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QUB Team, Win College of Psychiatry Annual Spike
Milligan Intervarsity Public Speaking Competition
for the 3rd Time
The College of Psychiatry of Ireland held its annual Spike
Milligan Public Speaking Competition recently in the Sugar Club,
Dublin. In its 12th year, the competition aims to raise awareness
of mental health issues among the general public and student doctor
community from the seven medical schools in Ireland. Teams of two
from UCC, UL, NUIG, TCD, UCD, RCSI & QUB spoke on this year’s
theme: “Out of Sight, out of Mind- who are the Bond Holders
for our Homeless with Mental Health Problems?”
Queen’s University’s Neil Bradley and Charlotte Cosgrove the win
for 2012. As well as winning the perpetual Dick Joynt Trophy,
especially sculpted for the competition
“This year, the standard of the teams was extraordinarily
high across the board” commented the College President, Dr
Anthony McCarthy. “Congratulations to Queen’s, UCD, and all
involved. It was clear that each of the seven teams had put a huge
amount of time, effort, research and their hearts into
their speeches, as well as addressing the multi faceted, complex
issues involved, making it a tough decision for the judges to
come up with a winner. This is the only time when all seven medical
schools in the country meet together and it is great forum to
highlight mental health issues, particularly the issue of
homelessness and mental illness.
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and Audit Implementation Network Project Team (GAIN) and RQIA to
produce Guidelines on the use of
the Mental Health (NI) Order 1986.
The Guidelines offer a practical and accessible learning package
for all agencies and professionals involved in mental health care.
There has been no recent guidance which takes into account changes
to the interpretation of the Order, related legislation, political
and organisational change, changes in service delivery and changes
in the expectation of service users and carers; these Guidelines
therefore fill a longstanding gap for those charged with operating
the Order and also provide a pathway for the introduction of
planned new developments in mental health legislation; the College
has been very pleased to have been involved with the production of
these resources.
Four CPD on-line modules have been made
freely available via CPD
On-line. These include an introduction to the Order,
admission to hospital, assessment and treatment and safeguards and
rights. The Guidelines are further supported by a list of
resources.
RCPsych in NI wish to thank GAIN for
providing this resource and to pay tribute to the Project Team
Chair, Dr Maria McGinnity, and the agencies, professionals, carers
and service users involved.
We are indebted to Drs Caroline Donnelly,
Roinin McNally, Peter Sloan and Bernadette Hamilton, who helped
compile the Guidelines and authored the e-learning resource.
We are grateful to the many members who
contributed to peer reviewing and editing the documents and gave
freely of their time and expertise. Thanks also to the College
centrally for their help in developing the first CPD On-line
resource specifically tailored to Northern Ireland.
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