Northern and Yorkshire Autumn Conference 2024 'Triumph amidst trials: A local showcase’

We are pleased to invite you to our autumn conference on 27 September 2024, at Holiday Inn, Scotch Corner, Darlington. This year, we are going to focus on local mental health services. Our Division covers six mental health trusts and many private providers.

Come and learn, from our local leaders, about how local mental health services are coping and excelling despite ongoing service pressures and challenges. Also, hear about regional specialist services for best practices in their specialist areas (substance abuse, neuropsychiatry and chronic fatigue services). It’s a fantastic opportunity to connect, learn, and share insights with colleagues.

Draft programme

The Conference Committee reserves the right to change the programme.

Event programme

• Gain understanding of current advances in assessment and management of chronic fatigue.
• Develop awareness about ME/CFS, including medical and psychological comorbidity.
• Update knowledge on alcohol, opioid and prescription medication dependence 
• How and when to recognise the effects of cognitive deficits in treating psychiatric conditions.
• The importance of centralising by principle, but delivering diversely 
• How to define Quality metrics across an organisation
• The difference between data and information
• Understand the role played by medical identities in assessing and developing medical leadership and engagement
• Help develop a research-based  strategy for self and organisational development to improve the quality of medical leadership and engagement in their Trusts.
• Supporting clinical leadership
• Leadership vs management
• Building resilience
  

Dr Christian Hosker

Christian Hosker is currently the Lead Clinician for the Leeds Liaison Psychiatry Service and the interim lead psychiatrist for the specialist care group in the Trust. He has worked as a Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist at St James University Hospital, since 2008 and has a special interest in palliative care psychiatry, transplant psychiatry, medically unexplained symptoms and veterans’ mental health. He is additionally an Honorary Senior Lecturer at Leeds University and provides regular teaching on the Leeds University MRCPsych training course and the Leeds Beckett AMHP courses.

Professor Graeme Martin

Graeme is Professor of Management at the University of Dundee School of Business. He has published over 100 papers in leading international journals, eight books, and several book chapters on management. Over the last two decades, he has conducted extensive research into healthcare management, medical leadership and medical engagement in NHS Scotland and NHS England.

He also designed and ran a masters’ degree in medical leadership with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow and was appointed as Vice Chair of NHS Tayside in Scotland with particular responsibility for people, culture and HR during 2019-23. His recent research with consultants across a range of specialties, including psychiatry, has led to the development and implementation of a ‘Medical Identity Toolkit’, which is the subject of his presentation.

Richard Wylde

Richard is the Deputy Director for Improvement at Leeds and York NHS Foundation Trust and a Non-Executive Director at the Institute for Continuous Improvement in Public Services. He is an experienced Improvement Specialist with a demonstrated history of working in the health care industry for more than 22 years, with a Master of Science (M.Sc.) focused on Leadership, Management and Change in Health and Social Services from University of Bradford.

His work has ranged fromm developing improvement resources and departments within different healthcare settings, from district general hospitals to national health institutions senior leadership development and system wide relational development associate lecturer at Leeds Becket University for both MA and MBA students studying Business Process Operations Management

Richard believes that we can overcome the most complex problems if we are able to find a way to work in collaboration, with honesty, curiosity and the willingness to change.

Dr Subha Thiyagesh

Appointed 19 April 2018 Subha Thiyagesh is the Chief Medical Officer and Responsible Officer at South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and is also a Consultant in Older People’s Services. She has been awarded the visiting professorship at University of Huddersfield. She was awarded a Doctorate in Medicine in the field of Dementia and the Nye Bevan NHS Leadership Academy Award in Executive Healthcare Leadership. She was also the winner of the Leader of the Year award in her Trust’s Excellence awards.

She remains clinically active as an old age psychiatrist, a qualified Quality Improvement facilitator and the clinical lead for Older Peoples’ Transformation in the trust and passionate about providing excellent quality of care to service users and carers which underpins her role as director of R&D.

She is a strong proponent of a values- based approach in the organisation including recruitment and on developing and delivering a person-centred service which is co-produced. She is collaborative in her approach as a leader and working across systems internally and externally including regional ICS systems and nationally. She is the SRO for the West Yorkshire ICB older people’s mental health workstream.

She has held a number of roles in Training and Education including being the Director of Medical Education and has a real passion for providing a high quality learning environment for doctors; appointed to the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Board of Examiners and currently supports the Trust Medical Leadership Pathway.

As the Director of Medical Education, she is passionate on developing the next generation of doctors, underpinned by a strong medical education and training strategy that focuses on the overall development of a person. She is a member of the RCPsych Leadership & Management Committee and supports the next generation of young leaders nationally in her role as module lead for national Leadership and Management Fellow course.

Subha holds a Doctorate in Medicine in the dementia field from the University of Sheffield and was previously deputy medical director and a consultant in older people’s services in Calderdale and Kirklees for the Trust.

Subha’s previous posts include being appointed to the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Board of Examiners and as a national peer reviewer of the Memory Service National Accreditation Programme. Subha is the clinical lead for our older people’s change programme and has been leading the development of our medical workforce strategy. Subha was awarded the Nye Bevan NHS Leadership Academy Award in Executive Healthcare Leadership and was the winner of the Leader of the Year award in our Trust’s Excellence awards in 2016.

Dr Soraya Mayet

Dr Mayet is Consultant Addictions Psychiatrist and Director of Medical Education at Humber Teaching NHS FT and Honorary Reader at Hull York Medical School, combining clinical, research and teaching. Dr Mayet trained in psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital, after completing undergraduate medicine (MBBS) and an intercalated BSc Physiology and Pharmacology (First class honours) at University College London. Dr Mayet has membership of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and has a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) with specialism on the GMC register for General Psychiatry and endorsement in Addictions.

Dr Mayet completed a Doctor of Medicine (Research) and Postgraduate Certificate of Academic Practice with Merit at Kings College London. Dr Mayet is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy and fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Dr Mayet has contributed to addictions research and contributed to addictions guidelines including WHO and three NICE guidelines as the addiction’s expert, along with developing successful addictions services.

Dr Kale Kedar

Dr Kale Kedar has been a Consultant Psychiatrist in Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear for several years and currently the Acting Clinical Director in Community Services for Newcastle and Gateshead and Lead Consultant Northumberland Older People’s Services. Dr Kedar has been a College Tutor for postgraduate trainees in psychiatry and remain committed to teaching and training. He completed his MBBS and later MD in Psychological Medicine from the University of Mumbai.

Dr Kedar then went on to do higher training at Norwich and Cambridge and acquired a Certificate of Completion of Training in General Adult Psychiatry and Addictions Psychiatry. Whilst in Cambridge, He completed an MPhil (University of Cambridge) working on Dissociation profiles in Neuropsychiatry.

Dr Ankush Vidyarthi

Dr Ankush Vidyarthi is a Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist and a Clinical Lead for the Leeds Liaison Psychiatry Service. He also provides consultant input to the Regional Leeds and West Yorkshire ME/CFS service. He has an interest in integration of physical and mental healthcare.

Dr Suresh Komati

Dr Suresh Komati is a clinical academic neuropsychiatrist in a regional, tertiary care Neuropsychiatry service based at Walker Gate Park, Newcastle Upon Tyne. Dr Komati is also a lead consultant for specialist Huntington’s service and provide genetic services for familial neuropsychiatry conditions at Northern Genetics Service, Center for Life.

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Holiday Inn Darlington - A1 Scotch Corner, Darlington, Richmond DL10 6NR

Parking: On-site complimentary parking is available with a total of 200 parking spaces. The car park is managed by Parking Eye a third-party company, please register your vehicle registrations at the touch screen on reception to access the free parking.

Train station: The nearest train station is Darlington, which is located 15 minutes drive from the Hotel

We are pleased to be running our Poster competitions again at this Conference. Poster presentations will take place in person at the 2024 Autumn Conference.

There are three winning categories:

• Best Medical Student/FY1 Poster
• Best FY2/Trainee Poster
• Best SAS Doctor Poster

Each winner will receive a £150 prize and a certificate of merit.

If you would like to submit an entry or find out more information then head over to the competitions webpage.

Entries for the competition are now closed.