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Chair
London: Dr Alan Cohen – GP, Senior Fellow, Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health & National Primary Care Advisor, Improving Access to
Psychological Therapies (IAPT) Programme.
Chair Manchester: Dr Ian Walton – GP and PEC chair.
AM Sessions
9.20 I’ve got a tummy ache: Is it cancer doctor?
Managing: Medically-unexplained symptoms,
Health anxiety, Somatic disorders.
Dr Deborah Colvin – The Lawson Practice
10.00 How to help people manage anxiety – practical skills for clinicians
Making sense of anxiety. Tools for everyday practice. Resources for patients.
Dr Ceri Dornan – GP with a special interest in mental health
10.40 Exhibition & Morning Coffee
11.20 Developing the QOF – challenges & opportunities
Depression & mental health areas. New indicator development process. Involving the grass roots of primary care.
London: Prof Helen Lester – GP, Professor of Primary Care at the University of Manchester, and Deputy-Director of the National Primary Care Research and Development Centre.
Manchester: Dr Tim Stokes PhD FRCGP – Associate Director (Medical) – Centre for Clinical Practice & Consultant Clinical Advisor – Implementation (QOF), NICE.
12.00 Giving people with depression a worthwhile existence
Iain Caldwell BSc PGCE FHGI – CEO, Hartlepool Mind
& Director, Starfish Health & Wellbeing
12.40 Exhibition & Lunch
PM Sessions
1.30 London
Hypnosis in clinical practice
Introduction to clinical hypnosis. Raise awareness of hypnosis & its integration into the normal working day of
health professionals, as an adjunct to conventional medicine. Hypnotic intervention case studies.
Jean Rogerson RGN BSCAH Accred Adv Dip Clinical Hypnosis & Stress Management
1.30 Manchester
Clinical hypnosis: How hypnotisable are you?
Dr Ian Walton - GP and PEC chair
2.10 Mental health & employment:
The challenge for primary care
The size of the problem & cost to the NHS.
Understanding why – including stigma & discrimination. Shifting perceptions – why work
is good for mental health & wellbeing. Options for referral – improving access to psychological therapies. Helping people return to work – putting policy into practice.
Dr Ian McPherson – Director,
National Mental Health Development Unit
2.50 Exhibition & Afternoon Tea
3.20 CBT for common mental health problems
in primary care consultations
Aileen Moore – CWMT Mental Health
Trainer, Sheffield
3.50 Recession depression
Helping people cope. Options available for support.
Defining the role of primary care & other agencies.
London: Michelle Smith – Government
Relations Advisor, Rethink.
Manchester: Paul Corry – Director, Rethink.
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