Events
Here you'll find Catholics in Healthcare events. We may, on occasion, post other related events.
Faith in Health
Conference announced for Summer 2010
Following the success of the 2008 Faith in Health conference held at St Mary's University College, Twickenham, there will be a second conference for health and social care professionals in 2010.
Themed Beginnings and endings: Caring for the whole person, the conference will run from 24-26 June 2010 at Liverpool Hope University.
For more information visit our Faith in Health 2010 page or email the conference organiser.
2008
The last Faith in Health conference was held in July 2008 and brought together healthcare professionals from across the country to further the current debate about vocation and professionalism within the NHS. It provided a space for healthcare professionals to reflect on the spiritual basis of their vocation to work in healthcare.
Key speakers included: Cardinal Cormac Murphy O'Connor, Baroness Julia Cumberlege, Sir Cyril Chantler and Dr James Hanvey SJ.
The conference was awarded 12 CPD credits (non-clinical) by the Royal College of Physicians and was open to all who work in healthcare.
Click to visit our Faith in Health 2008 page.
Catholic Medical Association UK
National Conference 2009
Saturday 25 April and Sunday 26 April 2009
Novotel, Victoria Street, BS1 6HY Bristol
Distinguished Catholic politician Baroness Julia Cumberlege and former political prisoner Dr Sheila Cassidy who was tortured in Chile were among the high profile figures who addressed delegates at the Catholic Medical Association’s inaugural national Conference in Bristol.
The Catholic Medical Association was previously the Guild of Catholic Doctors.
Speakers and topics included:
Maintaining our vocation in the new NHS
Baroness Cumberlege
Former health minister, Vice President RCN & RCM
Ethical challenges to vocation, a Catholic approach
David A Jones
Professor of Bioethics, St Mary’s University College
Winning hearts and minds on embryonic stem cell research
Neil Scolding
Professor of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Bristol
Vocation in the 21st Century
Sheila Cassidy
Former political prisoner, palliative care physician and author
Health and Community
A retreat and holiday for healthcare professionals
11th-16th January 2010
Boarbank Hall, Cumbria
Doctors and nurses are dealing with matters of life and death on a daily basis, yet they're usually so busy they have no time for peaceful reflection on how and why they do their work.
The theme of this retreat is Health and Community and it aims to provide a restful and restorative space in which healthcare professionals will be able to do just that.
The retreat will include talks and discussion, the opportunity for shared prayer, time for leisure activities, and plenty of space to relax, think and chat in beautiful and peaceful surroundings.
It's aimed in particular at doctors, nurses, chaplains and any other professionals working in the healthcare sector (who are Christians of any tradition).
Speakers
Dr George Giarchi, Mr John Sargent, Fr Richard Taylor and Sr Margaret Atkins.
Prayer
Delegates will be invited to join in:
* Daily Mass
* Morning, Evening and Night Prayer
* A shared musical meditation
Catholics in Healthcare seminar 2007
Cardinal Javier Cardinal Lozano Barragan is President of the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Health Pastoral Care. In June 2007, Cardinal Barragan travelled to the UK to speak at the third annual Catholics in Healthcare seminar.
A key speech was also given by Fr James Hanvey SJ, Director of the Heythrop Institute for Religion, Ethics & Public Life.