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01 Aug 22

Preventing Suicide, Saving Lives: Suicide Prevention

THURSDAY 6th OCTOBER 2022

VIRTUAL, Online

This conference focuses on the important issues of Suicide Prevention. 

This conference will enable you to:

  • Network with colleagues who are working to reduce suicide
  • Learn from outstanding practice in suicide prevention
  • Reflect on the lived experience and understanding the ongoing impact of Covid-19
  • Update your knowledge on national developments and learning
  • Understand high risk populations and where to prioritize your improvement programmes
  • Examine and learn from case studies in reducing suicide in mental health inpatients, including supporting people on leave
  • Understanding the implications of the new Patient Safety Incident Response Framework and ensure learning from suicides
  • Develop the effectiveness of multi-agency suicide prevention partnerships
  • Learn from case studies of suicide prevention and crisis support for people who have experienced trauma
  • Develop your skills in suicide mitigation and prevention training
  • Understand how you can reduce suicide in high risk groups
  • Identify key strategies for providing support to people and communities bereaved by suicide
  • Developing systems for Real-time suicide surveillance and postvention
  • Supports CPD professional development and acts as revalidation evidence. This course provides 5 Hrs training for CPD subject to peer group approval for revalidation purposes

For further information and to book your place visit

https://www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/conferences-masterclasses/preventing-suicide-saving-lives  or email amanThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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Reducing and improving the use of Restrictive Interventions & Practice: Managing Acute Disturbance, Violence and Aggression

TUESDAY 11th OCTOBER

VIRTUAL, Online

This virtual conference will focus on reducing restrictive interventions in line with national guidance and the March 2022 Care Quality Commission Progress Report on Restraint, segregation and seclusion review. The recent report found that not enough progress has been made in reducing the use of restraint and stated that none of the CQC recommendations from Out of sight – who cares? (2020) have been fully achieved.  The conference will also update delegates on practical steps to reduce restrictive practice, implement the CQC recommendations, and bring you up to date on legal developments including the December 2021 Mental Health Units (Use of Force) Act.

https://www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/conferences-masterclasses/restrictive-interventions-practice or email nicki@hc-uk.org.uk

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Preventing Suicide in Young People & Children

THURSDAY 17th NOVEMBER 2022

VIRTUAL, Online

This Sixth National Conference which this year will be held virtually focuses on Saving Young Lives – Preventing Suicide in Children and Young People. By attending this one day conference you will hear from expert speakers on how your services can reduce preventable suicides and save young lives. Through national updates, case studies from multi-agency settings and lived experience insight, this conference aims to set the scene for progress already being made and what needs to change to improve resilience, wellbeing, mental health support and effectively prevent suicide in children and young people. The conference will use case studies to demonstrate interventions that work in health, schools, universities and multi-agency settings. The conference will examine implementation of the self harm and suicide prevention competence framework for children and young people and will also reflect on suicide prevention in young people during Covid-19.

For further information and to book your place visit

https://www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/conferences-masterclasses/preventing-suicide-in-young-people-children or email amanThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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Sexual Abuse & Mental Health: Reducing the impact of abuse on mental health

FRIDAY 18th NOVEMBER 2022

VIRTUAL, Online

Researched and produced in collaboration with Paul Scates Peer Specialist, Campaigner and Survivor of Sexual Abuse, this important and timely conference focuses on the important issue of sexual abuse and mental health and reducing the impact of abuse on mental health.

National updates, survivor perspectives, expert sessions and practical case studies will cover:

  • The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown on sexual abuse and mental  health
  • Meeting the national commitment to ensure victims of sexual abuse receive a lifetime of effective mental health care
  • Helping reduce the impact of abuse on later mental health problems
  • Reflecting on the lived experience from a survivor perspective
  • What does a gold standard sexual abuse pathway look like?
  • Delivering a recovery focused approach for survivors
  • Understand how to reduce the impact of abuse on later mental health problems
  • Victim support, early mental health support, and the police role
  • The role of Sexual Abuse Referral Centres in Mental Health
  • Delivering therapeutic and practical support to adults who were abused as children and have turned to drugs, alcohol and other ways of self-harming as a consequence of that trauma
  • Relieving the stress of families, carers and parents of children who have been affected by sexual abuse
  • Delivering effective Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service for children, young people and their families who have been affected by sexual abuse
  • Working with complex trauma and dissociative disorders
  • Supports CPD professional development  

For further information and to book your place visit

https://www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/conferences-masterclasses/sexual-abuse-mental-health  or email amanThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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Delirium Prevention, Assessment and Effective Management

THURSDAY 24th NOVEMBER 2022

Virtual, Online

This conference focuses on the prevention, assessment and management of people with delirium. Through national updates and practical case studies the conference will equip you to spread the message that delirium is preventable, and develop your skills in the recognition, assessment and management of delirium.

The conference will include case study sessions focusing delirium as a symptom of coronavirus and how this should be managed, delirium and dementia, delirium following surgery, delirium in the ICU and delirium at the end of life. There are also in depth sessions focusing on managing violent or aggressive behaviour in patients experiencing delirium and the link between delirium and pain.

For further information and to book your place visit

https://www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/conferences-masterclasses/delirium-prevention-assessment-and-effective-management  or click on the title above or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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Improving Psychological Safety to Improve Patient Safety

TUESDAY 4th OCTOBER 2022

VIRTUAL, Online

This one day masterclass will focus on improving Patient Safety through enhancing psychological safety and safety culture. 
We will look at effective ways to encourage health professionals to routinely embed high-quality clinical evidence into their everyday work. We will explore the characteristics of relatively successful behaviour change interventions.

All Clinical Staff and Team Leads should attend.

For further information and to book your place visit

https://www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/conferences-masterclasses/improving-psychological-safety-patient-safety  or click on the title above or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

From DoLS to Liberty Protection Safeguards: Managing the Interim

THURSDAY  24th NOVEMBER 2022

VIRTUAL, Online

Facilitated by Ben Troke Court of Protection Specialist Solicitor, this half day masterclass, will look in detail at all aspects of the law on deprivation of liberty as it stands, and how to follow the current legal framework in residential care, in the community and in hospital settings, as well as reviewing the law for children.  

This course will be useful for all those working in health or social care, in any setting, and whether with adults or children, as we prepare for fundamental reform to meet the rights of the individual, and the challenge to do this in a way that is cost effective and efficient.

For further information and to book your place visit

https://www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/conferences-masterclasses/from-dols-to-lps   or click on the title above or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

Depression in Adults Supporting People through Covid-19

ON DEMAND

VIRTUAL, Online

This on-demand conference focuses on the important issues of Depression in Adult – supporting people through and beyond Covid-19, and will also focus on the forthcoming NICE Guideline Depression in Adults: treatment and management, currently out in draft form for Consultation.  National update sessions and case studies will focus on meeting the increased demand, ensuring access, providing effective treatment and management and case studies will highlight best practice and challenges in managing people with depression experiencing social isolation and loneliness, supporting young adults in higher education, supporting healthcare professionals, people from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds, and those experiencing depression as a co-morbid symptom of long Covid.

For further information and to book your place visit

https://www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/conferences-masterclasses/depression-covid-19    or click on the title above or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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