Saturday 19th October 2024, 9:00am to 1:00pm
Institute of Group Analysis, 1 Daleham Gardens, London, NW3 5BY
Join us for an insightful event featuring Clare Gerada and Rachel Gibbons in conversation as they delve into the complex landscape of the NHS through the lens of psychoanalytical and group analytic perspectives.
This engaging event will be centred around the vital topic of public health (The NHS) - focusing on benefits and challenges and impact working in it. This event aims to bring out a group analytic perspective on the challenges, raise awareness, and stimulate discussion.
This engaging session will explore the tensions between despair and hope, idealisation and impossibilities, and dependency and adaptation within the healthcare system.
Following the initial talks, participants will have the opportunity to engage in facilitated small group discussions, allowing for deeper exploration of these themes in a collaborative setting. The event will culminate in a dynamic plenary session, where insights from the groups will be shared, fostering a collective dialogue about the future of the NHS. Come ready to reflect, discuss, and work through these crucial dichotomies as we envision a path forward for healthcare.
Speakers: Professor Dame Clare Gerada is a Co-Chair of the NHS Assembly, and President of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP). She has practiced medicine for over 35 years and has been a driving force behind efforts to provide more wellbeing support for NHS staff. As well as being the first female Chair of the RCGP in 50 years, Clare has held leadership roles with the Department of Health and Social Care and is on the Council of the British Medical Association.
In the Millennium Birthday Honours, Clare received an MBE for services to medicine and substance misuse and was awarded a damehood in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2020. She was awarded a fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians in 2008 and was made an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in July 2013.
Dr Rachel Gibbons Consultant Psychiatrist, MBBS, MRCPsych Group Analyst, Psychoanalyst, Organisational Consultant. Chair of the Working Group on the Effect of Suicide and Homicide on Clinicians, and the Vice-Chair of the Psychotherapy Faculty at the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
She consults widely to teams and individuals within the public and private health sector. She has successfully led many transformational and change processes in challenging environments. Rachel was the National Director of Therapies for the Priory Group until 2020 where she provided strategic direction for the organisation and consultation to the therapy services in 100 hospitals across the UK. She is an experienced consultant psychiatrist and spent 20 years in the NHS in various leadership roles in different psychiatric settings that include: inpatient services, psychiatric intensive care wards (PICU), personality disorder teams, forensic, prison, hospital liaison, outpatient psychiatric, and psychotherapy services. She worked and trained in organisational consultancy at the Tavistock Clinic.
Provisional Programme
9.00am Keynote Talks
Discussion between Clare Gerada and Rachel Gibbons - Renowned experts to discuss the impact of working in the NHS, challenges and group dynamics process
10:30am – 11:30am Small Groups
Offering an experiential space facilitated by group analysts to reflect on the themes of the day.
12:00pm – 1:00pm Plenary Returning to the large group to integrate and synthesize from the small group reflections
Fees IGA students – £25
IGA membership – £35
Public – £50
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