Regional meeting: London
Meeting of the London network of IPTUK. The number of therapists trained as IPT practitioners and supervisors in London has risen significantly in the last couple of years and this greatly increases the opportunities for peer support and collaboration. The network could operate in a number of ways, from simply identifying local peers to facilitating clinical and research collaboration and opportunities to meet and exchange ideas and training.
UPDATE FROM REGIONAL REPS (July 2019):
Dear IPT UK London network,
Following our recent appeal for help in keeping the London network going, Bob and I are delighted to let you know that we have been able to secure speakers and venues for events in September and December 2019, and March 2020. The upcoming events are as follows:
Date: Friday 6th December 2019 at 1:30pm - 4:30pm
Location: Lewisham IAPT Service, Lee Health Centre, London SE12 8NP
Topic 1: IPT in the Perinatal Period
Topic 2: Focal Area Drift
Date: Wednesday 11th March 2020 at 9:30am - 12 noon
Location: Conference Hall, St Pancras Hospital, London NW1 0PE
Topic 1: Practicing IPT-A in a Voluntary Sector Environment (Mary McCormack and Karen Hohler)
Topic 2: Outcome Feedback and IPT (Adam Corfe and Nigel Beanland)
Bob and I will continue to try to book ahead, with the next event booked by us for September 2020. We have found in the past that it works better to keep the agenda booked a year ahead so there will be another appeal for presenters in September – but we would be delighted to hear from anyone in advance of that!
Thanks again to everyone that responded to the appeal. I very much hope we are able to keep our precious network going for many years to come.
With best wishes,
Yvonne and Bob
(yvonne.hemmings@swlstg-tr.nhs.uk)
UPDATE FROM REGIONAL REPS (May 2019):
Dear IPT-UK London Network members,
As many of you will know, after leading the London network for a couple of years, Bob and I have recently needed to step back from organising the meetings due to other commitments. To ensure the future of the London network, we have been asking for volunteers for both supporting future meetings to happen as well as presenters for future meetings. We were due to have a meeting in June, but we have had to cancel this as we only had one volunteer to present and we have no volunteers for future months. We have had volunteers to support with finding venues for meetings, and one to organise certificates, but none for helping to set dates and recruit presenters. We are extremely grateful to those of you who have volunteered what you can. However, without speakers or additional support to recruit speakers, our network is now in danger of being discontinued.
Bob and I have had a conversation about what we can personally continue to offer, and have agreed that we would be willing to work together to organise two events a year. We need to return to you the membership to ask again for volunteers to a) organise the other two meetings a year (if we want them quarterly), and b) to present (if we want them to happen at all). We do also now have webinar equipment and it would be really helpful to have some volunteers to help us to help set this up/ liaise with IPTUK so that IPTUK members in other parts of the country could also access our meetings, or London members can access when it is difficult for them to attend in person.
Assuming the network would like to try to save our group, Bob and I are willing to try to organise some meetings on the following dates:
Friday 20th September 2019 – 1.30pm -4pm
Wednesday 11th March 2020 – 9.30am – 12pm
We do need presenters if these are to run, and so I would be very grateful if you would contact Bob and I if you are willing to present. You do not have to be an expert!! We are happy to have case presentations, discussions, and paper reviews – as long as it is related to IPT we are interested! If we do not get any volunteers, we will with sadness agree to close the network. We are setting a deadline of Tuesday 30th June for responses to our appeal and will write to you after this time to update you on the outcome.
We would also still appreciate more volunteers to help us run the groups. The more of us there are, the better. Please do consider what you can offer. We all have jobs and busy lives and this can only work if we all pitch in.
With thanks and best wishes,
Yvonne and Bob
(yvonne.hemmings@swlstg-tr.nhs.uk)
The network meetings are dependent on members all contributing to presenting and facilitating meetings, and we would expect everyone to present at least once. With this in mind, we have generated a list of potential topics for future meetings and would like to invite you all to contact us to let us know which of these you would be interested in presenting or facilitating a discussion on. We are also open to alternative suggestions if there is something else you are interested in talking about! Presentations do not have to be formal (i.e. no Powerpoint required!) and you do not need to be an expert in the topic you present on. You might simply present a case that you have worked with, or a paper in the chosen area, and facilitate a discussion.
Topics generated so far include:
Anything else you fancy! The time allows for two slots per meeting.
What next?
We would be grateful if you could each reply to Bob (Bob.Pritchard@slam.nhs.uk), Ellen (ellen.heralall@slam.nhs.uk) or Yvonne (Yvonne.Hemmings@swlstg-tr.nhs.uk) to let them know the following:
1) which of these you would be interested to present,
2) any alternative or additional topics you would like to present
3) the meeting at which you could commit to presenting at
We look forward to hearing from you all, and meeting with you very soon!
UPDATE FROM REGIONAL REPS (July 2019):
Dear IPT UK London network,
Following our recent appeal for help in keeping the London network going, Bob and I are delighted to let you know that we have been able to secure speakers and venues for events in September and December 2019, and March 2020. The upcoming events are as follows:
Date: Friday 6th December 2019 at 1:30pm - 4:30pm
Location: Lewisham IAPT Service, Lee Health Centre, London SE12 8NP
Topic 1: IPT in the Perinatal Period
Topic 2: Focal Area Drift
Date: Wednesday 11th March 2020 at 9:30am - 12 noon
Location: Conference Hall, St Pancras Hospital, London NW1 0PE
Topic 1: Practicing IPT-A in a Voluntary Sector Environment (Mary McCormack and Karen Hohler)
Topic 2: Outcome Feedback and IPT (Adam Corfe and Nigel Beanland)
Bob and I will continue to try to book ahead, with the next event booked by us for September 2020. We have found in the past that it works better to keep the agenda booked a year ahead so there will be another appeal for presenters in September – but we would be delighted to hear from anyone in advance of that!
Thanks again to everyone that responded to the appeal. I very much hope we are able to keep our precious network going for many years to come.
With best wishes,
Yvonne and Bob
(yvonne.hemmings@swlstg-tr.nhs.uk)
UPDATE FROM REGIONAL REPS (May 2019):
Dear IPT-UK London Network members,
As many of you will know, after leading the London network for a couple of years, Bob and I have recently needed to step back from organising the meetings due to other commitments. To ensure the future of the London network, we have been asking for volunteers for both supporting future meetings to happen as well as presenters for future meetings. We were due to have a meeting in June, but we have had to cancel this as we only had one volunteer to present and we have no volunteers for future months. We have had volunteers to support with finding venues for meetings, and one to organise certificates, but none for helping to set dates and recruit presenters. We are extremely grateful to those of you who have volunteered what you can. However, without speakers or additional support to recruit speakers, our network is now in danger of being discontinued.
Bob and I have had a conversation about what we can personally continue to offer, and have agreed that we would be willing to work together to organise two events a year. We need to return to you the membership to ask again for volunteers to a) organise the other two meetings a year (if we want them quarterly), and b) to present (if we want them to happen at all). We do also now have webinar equipment and it would be really helpful to have some volunteers to help us to help set this up/ liaise with IPTUK so that IPTUK members in other parts of the country could also access our meetings, or London members can access when it is difficult for them to attend in person.
Assuming the network would like to try to save our group, Bob and I are willing to try to organise some meetings on the following dates:
Friday 20th September 2019 – 1.30pm -4pm
Wednesday 11th March 2020 – 9.30am – 12pm
We do need presenters if these are to run, and so I would be very grateful if you would contact Bob and I if you are willing to present. You do not have to be an expert!! We are happy to have case presentations, discussions, and paper reviews – as long as it is related to IPT we are interested! If we do not get any volunteers, we will with sadness agree to close the network. We are setting a deadline of Tuesday 30th June for responses to our appeal and will write to you after this time to update you on the outcome.
We would also still appreciate more volunteers to help us run the groups. The more of us there are, the better. Please do consider what you can offer. We all have jobs and busy lives and this can only work if we all pitch in.
With thanks and best wishes,
Yvonne and Bob
(yvonne.hemmings@swlstg-tr.nhs.uk)
The network meetings are dependent on members all contributing to presenting and facilitating meetings, and we would expect everyone to present at least once. With this in mind, we have generated a list of potential topics for future meetings and would like to invite you all to contact us to let us know which of these you would be interested in presenting or facilitating a discussion on. We are also open to alternative suggestions if there is something else you are interested in talking about! Presentations do not have to be formal (i.e. no Powerpoint required!) and you do not need to be an expert in the topic you present on. You might simply present a case that you have worked with, or a paper in the chosen area, and facilitate a discussion.
Topics generated so far include:
- IPT for groups
- Making the transition from practitioner to supervisor
- IPT A – case example
- Raising the profile of IPT in Primary Care
- IPT and post-natal depression
- IPT and eating disorders
- IPT and bipolar disorder
- IPT and DSH
Anything else you fancy! The time allows for two slots per meeting.
What next?
We would be grateful if you could each reply to Bob (Bob.Pritchard@slam.nhs.uk), Ellen (ellen.heralall@slam.nhs.uk) or Yvonne (Yvonne.Hemmings@swlstg-tr.nhs.uk) to let them know the following:
1) which of these you would be interested to present,
2) any alternative or additional topics you would like to present
3) the meeting at which you could commit to presenting at
We look forward to hearing from you all, and meeting with you very soon!