Essential features of mental health services
Focusing on the theme of ‘Shaping the Future of Irish Mental Healthcare’, the conference looked at the key features of an excellent mental health service, particularly when considering this year's new government and national mental health policy, as well as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
This half-day conference explored a comprehensive range of perspectives, with each speaker presenting a short 10-minute talk on what they feel are the key areas for consideration in mental health services.
Former United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health, Dainius Puras, delivered the keynote address and other speakers were:
- Mary Butler TD, Minister for Mental Health and Older People
- Paul Gilligan, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), St. Patrick's Mental Health Services
- John Farrelly, CEO of the Mental Health Commission
- Fiona Coyle, CEO of Mental Health Reform
- Mary Favier, Immediate Past President of the Irish College of General Practitioners (ICGP)
- Mark Smyth, Senior Clinical Psychologist with Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) and President of the Psychological Society of Ireland (PSI)
- Joseph Duffy, CEO of Jigsaw
- William Flannery, President of the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland
- Dr Amir Niazi, National Clinical Advisor and Group Lead for Mental Health in the Health Service Executive
- Martha Griffin, Chair of the Peer Support in Mental Health Programme in Dublin City University and a peer educator with the Recovery College
- Kevin Jones, carer representative, Board member and former Secretary General of EUFAMI
- Dr Damien Brennan, Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Teaching and Learning at the School of Nursing and Midwifery in Trinity College Dublin.
Continuous Professional Development
We previously advised that external CPD points were available for those who either attended the live conference or watch the recording, but we have since been advised that these points are only awarded for those in attendance on the day.
If you attended the live conference on Friday, 27 November, you are eligible to receive:
- four external CPD points and a half day's study leave from the ICGP, with these points transferable to the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland (CPI)
- four CPD points from the Irish Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (IACP)
- two CPD points from the PSI.
If you did not attend the live conference but watch back the recording of the event:
- you are eligible to claim up to four personal learning credits from the ICGP, with one credit awarded for every one hour of the event watched
- you can document this in your learning log for PSI members, but the PSI will not issue a certificate for this
- the IACP will not award external CPD points or personal learning credits.
Event recording
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