The Psychological Professions Network brings together the psychological professions in the North West of England with the shared aim of promoting excellence in psychological health and wellbeing across the whole of health care.
The aim of the Annual Conference is to bring psychological practitioners and those they work in partnership with to share examples of clinical excellence and innovation; facilitate discussion of new ideas, strategy and policy; and consult with members of the network to plan our direction and priorities. It also provides a unique opportunity for multi-professional networking.
Our annual conference aligns with Psychological Professions Week which is held in November, you can find details of our latest annual conference through our regular newsletter and LinkedIn Page.
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Event Summary
PPWeek25 - PPN North West Conference 2025
Psychological Professions Week (10 – 14 November 2025) brought together psychological professionals, policy makers and the public with events across Psychological Professional Network (PPN) Regions and NHS Services.
PPN North West’s Annual Conference. 12th November at BWFC stadium.
Key highlights included:
- Community Psychology: a core focus of the conference agenda was the importance of understanding and addressing both physical and mental health challenges within the context of local communities
- Public and Population Health: Exploring the role of Psychological Professions can have in improving health outcomes and reducing inequalities at community and population levels.
- World Café discussion on The Three Shifts: Digging deeper into Fit for the Future: 10 Year Plan for Health and Care, table discussions were held on Psychological Professionals informing, influencing and enabling the there shifts of Sickness to Prevention, Analogue to Digital, and Acute to Community.
- Storytelling and Collaboration: Used as theme for the day, storytelling was used to inspire change, community engagement and share best practice.
- Recognition Awards The event ended celebrating the great work of 2025 across the Psychological Professions.
The event increased delegate understanding around the role of Psychological Professions on subjects including prevention, early intervention, and integrated care for healthier communities.
For more information contact the PPN North West team at
Detailed Event Summary
PPN North West Conference 2025
Date: 12 November 2025
Location: Bolton Wanderers Toughsheet Community Stadium
The Psychological Professions Network (PPN) North West Conference 2025 brought together Psychological Professionals, NHS leaders, and community partners from across the region for a day of learning, collaboration, and celebration. View the full slide deck pdf here (15.54 MB)
Key Themes and Focus
- Community Psychology & Population Health: The conference explored the vital role of Psychological Professions in addressing health inequalities and supporting public health priorities and national policy.
- The Three Shifts: Delegates engaged with the NHS’s “Three Shifts” for future health:
- Sickness to Prevention
- Analogue to Digital
- Acute to Community
- Storytelling: Storytelling was a central theme, highlighting its power to connect, inspire, and drive change within health and care systems and the populations our workforce serves.
Programme Highlights:
- Keynote Addresses:
- Colin Cox (Director of Public Health, Cumberland Council) discussed the integration of Public health and Psychology, and the evolving challenges facing the sector.
- Lucinda McArthur (Non-Executive Director, LSCFT) shared insights on Population health, behavioural science, and opportunities for Psychological Professions.
- World Café Sessions:
Delegates participated in interactive, café-style discussions, using a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) approach to explore the Three Shifts and generate practical ideas for service/workforce improvements.
- Recognition Awards:
Presented by Radio Lancashire’s Rebecca Pukiello, the conference celebrated outstanding contributions in three categories:
- Inform: Broadening awareness of psychological professions
- Enable: Innovation and new approaches, including digital transformation
- Influence: Collaboration, coproduction, and partnership working
Data and Insights:
- Healthy life expectancy in England is now 61.7 years, with significant regional inequalities—six of the ten most deprived neighbourhoods are in the North West.
- The conference emphasised the need for trauma-informed, behaviour change, and culture change approaches to improve outcomes and reduce health disparities.
Reflections and Next Steps:
- Psychological professionals are central to prevention, early intervention, and integrated care.
- The event reinforced the importance of curiosity, inclusivity, and partnership in tackling health inequalities and shaping the future of psychological services.
- Delegates were encouraged to continue sharing learning, complete the and drive positive change in their localities with each listing take-away actions as part of their feedback.
For further information or to access conference resources, please contact the PPN North West team at
Images from the Day:
Caroline Dyer from Heard Storytelling talks to the Power of Storytelling.
Lucinda McArthur tells delegates her story and the Curiositym Insights and Unlearning of Population Health
Colin Cox explains how Psychological Professionals can be a vital force in public health and prevention
Radio Lancashire’s Rebecca Pukiello presents the inaugural PPN NW Recognition Awards
Winners in the Inform Category: Psychology Team and Student Mental Health from Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust; Palvisha Iqbal and Faaiza Vadia, Co-Chairs of Anti-Racism Community of Practice; Rabiya Azami, Pennine Care Foundation Trust.
Winners in the Enable category: Njal Long from We Are Survivors; Jasper Palmier-Claus, Principal Clinical Psychologist and Senior Lecturer at University of Lancaster; Trafford Early Intervention Service, GMMH.
Winners in the Influence category: Anna Whiteoak, Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner, Lancashire and South Cumbria FT; NHS Sefton Talking Therapies, Mental Health Matters; ClassClinPsych Collective, University of Lancashire
Psychological Professions Week 2022 featured keynote speakers, panel discussions and regionally-led sessions aligned to the National Vision of the Psychological Professions, hosted by the Psychological Professions Network (PPN) England, and featured a stimulating programme with morning and afternoon online events.
Our keynote speakers covered topics such as:
- Next Steps for the Psychological Professions - Realising our Vision
- Experts by Experience in the Psychological Professions - Adding Value and Transforming Lives
- What can the PPN do for me, and what can I do for the PPN?
- Reflecting on Equality and Diversity in the Psychological Professions
- Progressing your Career in the Psychological Professions
- Showcasing Alternative Career Routes: Experiences of the New Psychological Practitioner Roles
- Where next for Psychological Practice in Physical Healthcare?
To view all of the recordings from the day, register or login by clicking here.
Building on the success of last year, Psychological Professions Week 2021 featured keynote speakers, panel discussions and regionally-led sessions aligned to the National Vision of the Psychological Professions, hosted by the Psychological Professions Network (PPN) England, and featured a stimulating programme with morning and afternoon online events.
Our keynote speakers covered topics such as:
- Innovation in low intensity working led by Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners
- Developing careers in the psychological professions
- Expert by experience involvement -shaping future services and training
- Can service users benefit from outcome measures?
- Making more health and care psychological
To view all of the presentations and recordings from the day, register or login by clicking here.
The first ever virtual Psychological Professions Week was hosted by the Psychological Professions Network (PPN) England, and featured a stimulating programme with morning and afternoon online events.
Our keynote speakers covered topics such as:
• A vision for the psychological professions in England
• What people want from the NHS over the next 10 years, and how the psychological professions can help
• How psychological professionals can change general practice
• Practical steps for anti-racism in psychological therapy services
• How psychological professions can help to build healthy communities
To view all of the presentations and recordings from the day, click here.
The theme of the sixth annual conference of the North West Psychological Professions Network was on the implications and opportunities for the psychological professions working within the NHS as it sets out its vision to prepare the workforce to deliver the digital future.
During the morning session the key note speakers Andy Gill, Deputy Head of Strategy for HEE and Programme Manager for the Genomics Expert Advisory Panel reporting into the Topol Review & Henrietta Mbeah-Bankas, Topol Review Project Lead, Head of Blended Learning and Digital Literacy, HEE, who discussed The Topol Review (HEE, 2019) and ways in which the healthcare workforce can begin to deliver a digital future.
For the afternoon session we heard from Dr Amanda Thornton, Digital Health & Activation Clinical Lead, Healthier Lancashire & South Cumbria, Dementia Clinical Lead – Lancs and S.Cumbria, North West Coast Strategic Clinical Network & Senate NHS England, who discussed what it's like to be a psychological professional in the changing ditigal age.
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Introduction to the ‘Psychological Professions into Action’ National Conversation
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Speaker: Pete Thomond, Chief Executive, Clever Together
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The Topol Review – Preparing the healthcare workforce to deliver our digital future & Digital Competencies for the Psychological Therapies Workforce
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Speakers: Andy Gill, Deputy Head of Strategy for HEE and Programme Manager for the Genomics Expert Advisory Panel reporting into the Topol Review & Henrietta Mbeah-Bankas, Topol Review Project Lead, Head of Blended Learning and Digital Literacy, HEE
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Development & Delivery of Digital Communication on a Deaf Inpatient Unit
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Speaker: Dr Rachel Lever, Clinical Psychologist, Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, National Centre for Mental Health & Deafness
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Being a psychology professional in a digital age
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Speaker: Dr Amanda Thornton, Digital Health & Activation Clinical Lead, Healthier Lancashire & South Cumbria, Dementia Clinical Lead – Lancs and S.Cumbria, North West Coast Strategic Clinical Network & Senate NHS England
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PPN England Developments
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Speakers: Clare Baguley, Psychological Professions Workforce Lead & North West Psychological Professions Network Programme Manager, HEE NW &Alice Plummer, Principal Clinical Psychologist, Clinical Programme Manager, Psychological Professions Network, Kent, Surrey and Sussex
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The theme of the fifth annual conference of the North West Psychological Professions Network was adverse childhood experiences (ACE) and the strong and cumulative impact they have on the mental health and wellbeing of people who use our services.
During the morning session the key note speaker Dr Filippo Varese,Senior Clinical Lecturer in Psychology & Clinical Psychologist, Director of the Complex Trauma and Resilience Research Unit (C-TRU) discussed trauma informed care and the implementation and evalutation.
For the afternoon session we heard from Derek Marshall, Associate Director of Workforce Planning and Information, Health Education England about the future of 'The North of England Mental Health Workforce Plan'.
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Understanding the Mental Health Impact of Adverse Childhood Experience
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Speaker: Dr Warren Larkin, Consultant Clinical Psychologist Visiting Professor, University of Sunderland
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Trauma informed care – implementation and evaluation
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Speaker:Dr Filippo Varese, Senior Clinical Lecturer in Psychology & Clinical Psychologist, Director of the Complex Trauma and Resilience Research Unit (C-TRU)
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Physical health and trauma approaches to manage chronic conditions
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Speakers: Dr Catherine Parker, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Clinical Lead for Familiar Faces, Physical Health and Rehabilitation Psychology, Cumbria Partnership NHS Foundation Trust & Dr Brenda Connolly, Principal Clinical Psychologist, Physical Health andRehabilitation Psychology, Cumbria Partnership NHSFoundation Trust
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The Psychological Professions Network: Maximizing our impact & influence
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Speaker: Clare Baguley, Programme Manager and Professional Lead, North West Psychological Professions Network, Health Education England North
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Looking ahead: The North of England Mental Health Workforce Plan
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Speaker: Derek Marshall, Associate Director of Workforce Planning and Information, Health Education England
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The theme of the fifth annual conference of the North West Psychological Professions Network was championing the role of the psychological professions and specifically our contribution to supporting individuals and communities who have experienced trauma.
During the morning session the key note speaker Dr Noreen Tehrani, Chair of the Crisis, Disaster and Trauma Section of the British Psychological Society laid out the case for the psychological professions taking a lead in developing and delivering trauma services.
The North West has experienced its own incidents of trauma in recent months and the clinical panel was made up of senior psychological practitioners who have led the development of the Manchester Resilience Hub. This ground breaking service has been hailed as a national example of clinically led innovation and coordinates care and support for children, young people and adults whose mental health and/or emotional wellbeing has been affected by the Manchester Arena attack. The Hub is based in Greater Manchester but is for everyone who was affected, wherever they may live.
For the afternoon session we heard about the recently published Stepping Forward to 2020/21: Mental Health Workforce Plan for England. This is Health Education England’s response to the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health and Future in Mind and lays out the agenda for workforce planning and development until 2021.
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Title: Psychological Approaches to Dealing with Trauma
Speaker: Dr Noreen Tehrani, Occupational Health Psychologist, Noreen Tehrani Associates & Chair of the Crisis, Disaster and Trauma Psychology Section, British Psychological Society
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Title: A GM Response to the Manchester Arena Incident
Speaker: Prof Paul French, Adult Mental Health Clinical Lead, Greater Manchester and Eastern Cheshire Strategic Clinical Networks
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Title: The Manchester Arena Bombing. The Impact on the People who Responded to the Incident
Speaker: Dr Claire Maguire, Clinical and Professional Lead for Psychological Therapies, Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
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Title: The Manchester Resilience Hub
Speaker: Dr Alan Barrett, Consultant Clinical Psychologist & Clinical Lead (Adults), Manchester Resilience Hub, Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
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Title: Treating PTSD in Primary Care IAPT
Speaker: Dr Paul Campbell, Consultant Clinical Psychologist & Clinical Lead, North West Boroughs Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust & Greater Manchester and Eastern Cheshire Strategic Clinical Networks
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Title: The Psychological Professions Network - Our Impact & Influence
Speaker: Clare Baguley, Programme Manager, North West Psychological Professions Network & Interim HEE North of England Mental Health Lead
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Title: Overview of Stepping Forward to 2020/21: The Mental Health Workforce Plan for England
Speaker: Neil McLauchlan, Local Director (North West), Health Education England
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Title: The North of England Workforce Planning Strategy
Speaker: Derek Marshall, Associate Director of Workforce Planning and Information (North), Health Education England
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Title: The L&SC STP Integrated Approach to Planning the Mental Health Workforce
Speaker: Mike Burgess, Workforce and Education Transformation Lead (Lancashire and South Cumbria), Health Education England
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The first ever virtual Psychological Professions Week was hosted by the Psychological Professions Network (PPN) England, and featured a stimulating programme with morning and afternoon online events.
Our keynote speakers covered topics such as:
• A vision for the psychological professions in England
• What people want from the NHS over the next 10 years, and how the psychological professions can help
• How psychological professionals can change general practice
• Practical steps for anti-racism in psychological therapy services
• How psychological professions can help to build healthy communities
To view all of the presentations and recordings from the day, click here.
The Five Year Forward View for Mental Health was published in February 2016 and sets out the start of a ten year journey for mental health services within the NHS. It places the experience of over 20,000 people with mental health problems at the heart of its narrative and proposes a set of recommendations that have now been incorporated into the mandates for National Health Service England (NHSE) & Health Education England (HEE) to achieve the ambition of parity of esteem between mental and physical health care.
The fourth annual conference of the North West Psychological Professions Network provided an opportunity for psychological professionals working in NHS commissioned services in the North West to hear about the vision set out in the Five Year Forward View alongside the joint NHSE and HEE implementation plan.
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- The Five Year Forward View for Mental Health: Opportunities for the Psychological Professions - Jacqueline Dyer, Expert by Experience and Vice-Chair of the Mental Health Taskforce, NHS England
- The Five Year Forward View for Mental Health: Thoughts from some services - Dr Rachel Domone, Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist & Professional Lead for Psychology - Adult Community Services and Neuropsychology, Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust
- What is Transformational Change and Why is it Important? - Juliette Swift, Programme Manager, Workforce Transformation, Health Education England working across the North West
- Transforming IAPT Integrated Care Services for People with Long Term Conditions - Philip Gooden, Service Manager, Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust and Sarah Swindley, CEO of Lancashire Women’s Centres & Programme Lead IAPT for Long Term Conditions, NHS Blackburn with Darwen CCG
- Action on Wellbeing of the Workforce – The BPS Wellbeing Charter and PWPs in the North West - Liz Kell, Senior Lecturer in Psychological Interventions, University of Central Lancashire
- Developing Peer Support Workers to Support the Transformation of Mental Health Care - Lynn King, Trust Wide Strategic Recovery & Allied Health Professions Lead, Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust and Iris Benson, HSJ Patient Leader, ImROC Consultant & Expert by Experience
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- Speaker Biographies
- North West Psychological Professions Network: Workforce Issues in 2016
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The North West Psychological Professions Network Annual Conference took place on Tuesday 10th November 2015 in Bolton and had a focus on Wellbeing of the Workforce.
Wellbeing in the workplace is receiving a lot of attention with a recent speech by NHS England Chief Executive Simon Stevens emphasising the need to support NHS staff as they have some of the most critical but demanding jobs in the country. NICE have also launched new guidance in this area: Workplace Policy & Management Practices to Improve the Health and Wellbeing of Employees emphasising the critical role mental health and wellbeing makes to the quality of the workplace.
At the conference, we learned about the national context and research into workplace wellbeing. We also heard about how a local organisation is using Schwartz Rounds to support their staff with the emotional demands of looking after people.
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- What Do We Know About Wellbeing?- Peter Kinderman, Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Liverpool
- What Does Research Tell About Wellbeing in the Workplace?- Tarani Chandola, Professor of Medical Sociology, The University of Manchester
- Enabling Wellbeing in the Workplace - Implementing Schwartz Rounds in the North West- John Gillespie, Head of Clinical Education, North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust
- PPN North West Updates- Clare Baguley, Programme Manager, Psychological Professions Network, Health Education England’s North West Team
- Launch of the Physical Health and Psychological Approaches Animation- Lucie Byrne-Davis, Registered Health Psychologist and Lecturer, Manchester Medical School
- The Role of Leadership in Promoting Wellbeing of the Workforce- Richard Barnard, Deputy Clinical Director Psychological Services, Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust
- Leadership- Duncan Craig, Chief Executive Officer, Survivors Manchester
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- BSL Healthy Minds from SignHealth
- Peer to Peer - Self Help Services
- Self Help - A Guide to Our Services in Greater Manchester
- NHS Staff Mindfulness (MBCT) Project 2011 to 2014 - Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Staff Wellbeing Service - Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
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The North West Psychological Professions Network 2nd Annual Conference took place on Wednesday 4th March 2015 in Bolton. As the network celebrated its first year of existence we looked towards 2015 with a focus on the opportunities for psychological approaches within the public health agenda and examine the meaning of 'parity of esteem' for mental health.
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- Psychological Professions Network - Welcome & Introduction, Clare Baguley, Programme Manager, Psychological Professions Network, Health Education England’s North West Team
- Psychological Contributions to the Public's Mental Health & Wellbeing. An Overview, Gregor Henderson, National Lead, Wellbeing & Mental Health, Public Health England
- PPN North West – What has the Network achieved & what's next? Clare Baguley, Programme Manager, Psychological Professions Network, Health Education England’s North West Team & Dr Gita Bhutani, Chair, North West Psychological Professions Network
- Psychological Therapies & Parity of Esteem: From Commitment to Reality, Anna Lewis, Policy & Public Affairs Officer, British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy & Claire Maguire, Clinical and Professional Lead, Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Executive Summary - Psychological Therapies and Parity of Esteem: From Commitment to Reality, British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
- Workshop Part 1: How can the Network promote Parity of Esteem?
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- A Service Evaluation of a Managing Difficult Feelings Group Entitled: 'We're All in the Same Boat' - Dr. Lesley Taylor, Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist, Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust; Jayde Sayers, Psychology Assistant, Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust & Gabrielle Le Geyt,Trainee Clinical Psychologist, The University of Manchester
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in a Weight Management Service - Ruth Lawrence, Professional Lead for CBT in Weight Management, 5 Boroughs Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Staff Wellbeing Service - Katie Kay, Staff Wellbeing Service Team Manager, Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Using Flo as an Interactive Information Tool - Katie Kay, Project Manager, Healthy Minds Tameside & Glossop, Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Improving the Wellbeing of Deaf People Through Healthy Minds - BSL Healthy Minds from SignHealth
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Comments from the day:
- "It was a really productive day. Thank you for organising it"
- "Thank you for an interesting day, it's really nice to interact with other professionals and learn from their experience"
- "It was good to have the public health speaker to help us think about this aspect and influence on the future. The event highlighted how much PPN has developed over the year and its innovative potential!"
- "Thank you to everyone that finds the time, energy (passion?) to make this happen and provide an opportunity for great line staff to have a voice"
- "Thank you! You are all doing a fantastic job!"
- "Enjoyed the day, good to meet people from other services and learn other ideas"
The North West Psychological Professions Network Launch Conference took place on Wednesday 26th February 2014 in Bolton. Interest in the event was extremely high with over 300 applications from across the North West of England for 175 places.
Led by Dr Gita Bhutani, PPN North West Chair, the event played host to delegates representing the whole range of psychological professions including clinical psychologists, counsellors, psychotherapists, cognitive behaviour therapists, psychological well-being practitioners and arts therapists.
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- Welcome to PPN North West - Dr Gita Bhutani, Chair, North West Psychological Professions Network & Clare Baguley, North West Psychological Professions Network Lead
- Centre for Professional Workforce Development: Our Aims - Sue Louth, North West AHP Workforce Lead, Health Education England’s North West Team
- Educating Lancashire ... & Some Other Northerners - Jeremy Clarke CBE, Ministerial Advisory Group for Mental Health & Co-Chair, Department for Work & Pensions Mental Health Advisory Group; Chair, New Savoy Partnership
- Creating the Map - Afternoon Workshop
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Comments from the day:
- " Very interesting and motivating day. Good and reassuring to know there are lots of good practices already"
- " Gita's and Clare's passion is infectious"
- " This was well organised and planned/coordinated. Very interested to see what happens next"
- " Really appreciate all the hard work that went in to making the day so successful"
- " Thank you, very positive and useful event and initiative"
- " Thank you for the inspiration and commitment"
- " Great start and thank you for taking the lead, appreciate all the hard work"
- " Thank you for organising the event and for setting up an organisation that can collectively raise the profile of the professions"
- " Glad that the network is happening when it is and looking forward to it continuing to grow"
- " Thank you all very much for your hard efforts and dedication"
- " Thanks to all those that organised the day – great to bring people from a range of psychological professions together"
- " Inspirational"
Video Presentations from Previous Conferences
In this section you will be able to view videos of presentations from our Annual Conferences. Select the sliders below to reveal the Videos.
PPN Annual Conference 2019 promotional video
Welcome, Opening Remarks & Introduction to our Conference Keynote Listeners
Dr Gita Bhutani, Associate Director for Psychological Professions, Chair of the Psychological
Professions Network North West, Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust, Honorary Research
Fellow at the University of Liverpool
Introduction to the ‘Psychological Professions into Action’ National Conversation
Pete Thomond, Chief Executive, Clever Together
The Topol Review – Preparing the healthcare workforce to deliver our digital future & Digital Competencies for the Psychological Therapies Workforce
Andy Gill, Deputy Head of Strategy for HEE and Programme Manager for the Genomics Expert Advisory Panel reporting into the Topol Review & Henrietta Mbeah-Bankas, Topol Review Project Lead, Head of Blended Learning and Digital Literacy, HEE
Development & Delivery of Digital Communication on a Deaf Inpatient Unit
Dr Rachel Lever, Clinical Psychologist, Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, National Centre for Mental Health & Deafness
Keynote Listener Reflections
Helen Leigh-Phippard, Visiting Lecturer of Psychology at the University of Sussex, School of Psychology in the School of Health Sciences at the University of Brighton
PPN England Developments
Clare Baguley, Psychological Professions Workforce Lead & North West Psychological Professions Network Programme Manager, HEE NW & Alice Plummer, Principal Clinical Psychologist, Clinical Programme Manager, Psychological Professions Network, Kent, Surrey and Sussex
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Dr Gita Bhutani
Chair of the North West Psychological Professions Network
Keynote Speaker: Psychological Approaches to Dealing with Trauma
Dr Noreen Tehrani
Occupational Health Psychologist, Noreen Tehrani Associates &
Chair of the Crisis, Disaster and Trauma Psychology Section, British Psychological Society
A GM Response to the Manchester Arena Incident
Prof Paul French
Adult Mental Health Clinical Lead
Greater Manchester and Eastern Cheshire Strategic Clinical Networks
The Manchester Arena Bombing. The Impact on the People who Responded to the Incident
Dr Claire Maguire
Clinical and Professional Lead for Psychological Therapies
Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
The Manchester Resilience Hub
Dr Alan Barrett
Consultant Clinical Psychologist & Clinical Lead (Adults)
Manchester Resilience Hub, Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
Treating PTSD in Primary Care IAPT
Dr Paul Campbell
Consultant Clinical Psychologist & Clinical Lead
North West Boroughs Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust & Greater Manchester and Eastern Cheshire Strategic Clinical Networks
The Psychological Professions Network - Our Impact & Influence
Clare Baguley
Programme Manager
North West Psychological Professions Network
Welcome and Introduction
Gita Bhutani
Chair of the North West Psychological Professions Network
Keynote: The Five Year Forward View for Mental Health: Opportunities for the Psychological Professions
Jacqueline Dyer
Expert by Experience and Vice-Chair of the Mental Health Taskforce, NHS England
Views from the Psychological Professions Network: Panel Response
Dr Jo Potier
Clinical Lead & Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Liverpool Fresh CAMHS, Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
Duncan Craig
Chief Executive Officer, Survivors Manchester
Dr Rachel Domone, Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist
Professional Lead for Psychology - Adult Community Services and Neuropsychology, Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust
What is Transformational Change and Why is it Important?
Juliette Swift
Programme Manager, Workforce Transformation, Health Education England working across the North West
Transforming IAPT Integrated Care Services for People with Long Term Conditions
Philip Gooden
Service Manager, Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust
Chair of the North West IAPT Leadership & Innovation Forum
Sarah Swindley
CEO of Lancashire Women’s Centres
Programme Lead IAPT for Long Term Conditions, NHS Blackburn with Darwen CCG
Action on Wellbeing of the Workforce – The BPS Wellbeing Charter and PWPs in the North West
Liz Kell
Senior Lecturer in Psychological Interventions, University of Central Lancashire
Chair of the North West PWP Professional Network
Developing Peer Support Workers to Support the Transformation of Mental Health Care
Lynn King
Trust Wide Strategic Recovery & Allied Health Professions Lead, Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Iris Benson
HSJ Patient Leader, ImROC Consultant & Expert by Experience
Opening Address
Gita Bhutani
Chair, North West Psychological Professions Network
What Do We Know About Wellbeing?
Peter Kinderman, Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Liverpool
What Does Research Tell About Wellbeing in the Workplace?
Tarani Chandola, Professor of Medical Sociology, The University of Manchester
Enabling Wellbeing in the Workplace - Implementing Schwartz Rounds in the North West
John Gillespie, Head of Clinical Education, North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust
PPN North West Updates & Launch of the Physical Health and Psychological Approaches Animation
Clare Baguley, Programme Manager, Psychological Professions Network, Health Education England’s North West Team
Lucie Byrne-Davis, Registered Health Psychologist and Lecturer, Manchester Medical School
The Role of Leadership in Promoting Wellbeing of the Workforce
Richard Barnard, Deputy Clinical Director Psychological Services, Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust
Duncan Craig, Chief Executive Officer, Survivors Manchester
North West Psychological Professions Network – A Year of Promoting Excellence in Health & Psychological Wellbeing
Dr Gita Bhutani
Chair, North West Psychological Professions Network
PPN North West – What has the Network achieved & what’s next?
Clare Baguley, Programme Manager, Psychological Professions Network, Health Education England’s North West Team
Psychological Therapies & Parity of Esteem: From Commitment to Reality
Anna Lewis, Policy & Public Affairs Officer, British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
Claire Maguire, Clinical and Professional Lead, Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
Key Note Speaker: Psychological Contributions to the Public’s Mental Health & Wellbeing – an Overview
Gregor Henderson, National Lead, Wellbeing & Mental Health, Public Health England
Health Education England’s North West Team – Creating a Culture of Excellence
Professor Ged Byrne, Director of Education & Quality, Health Education North West
Psychological Professions Network (PPN North West)
Clare Baguley, North West Psychological Professions Network Lead, Health Education England’s North West Team
Dr Gita Bhutani, Chair, North West Psychological Professions Network
North West Centre for Professional Workforce Development
Sue Louth, North West AHP Workforce Lead, Health Education England’s North West Team
Keynote Speaker
Jeremy Clarke CBE, Ministerial Advisory Group for Mental Health & Co-Chair, Department for Work & Pensions Mental Health Advisory Group; Chair, New Savoy Partnership