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A day seminar for GPs and other primary health care professionals to be held at the QE Postgraduate Centre.

PROGRAMME

9.00 a.m. Registration and Coffee
9.20 a.m. Introduction - Neil Deuchar, Medical Director, West Midlands Strategic Health Authority
9.30 a.m. Run down or fighting fit? Emotions and the immune system - Dr Anna Phillips, University of Birmingham
Research Fellow and Chartered Health Psychologist
10.15 a.m. Spiritual needs in holistic care - A Human given? - Ross Bryon, GP and Clinical Commissioner
11.00 a.m. Coffee
11.30 a.m. Spiiritual needs - Integral to every day health care? - Annie Hughes, former Health Visitor and Practice
Nurse now a Spiritual Care Advisor in General Practice
12.15 p.m. Psychosomatic illness - The elephant in the room - Paul Turner, GP - Recently Mental Health Lead for
NHS South Birmingham
1.00 p.m. Lunch
2.00 p.m. Commissioning holistic health care in practice - Neil Deuchar, Medical Director, West Midlands Strategic
Health Authority
2.30 p.m. Practical approaches to psychosomatic illness in General Practice - Anand Chitnis, GP Advisor, NHS West
Midlands Regional Development Centre

Themed Workshops : How can General Practice be more holistic?

3.40 p.m. Plenary session and development of Commissioning Action Plan
4.00 p.m. CLOSE OF DAY

If you wish to attend could you please send your name, address, telephone number, confirm whether you are a vegetarian together with a cheque for £25 made payable to "University Hospital Birmingham NHS Trust" to Jackie Cypher, Postgraduate Centre, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Metchley Park Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TG