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Scottish Health and Homelessness Conference 2004
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>>Apex City Quay Hotel, Dundee
Thursday 20th and Friday 21st May >>Confirmed speakers include:
Dr Mac Armstrong, Chief Medical Officer for Scotland
Malcolm Chisholm MSP, Minister for Health and Community Care Keep up to date with the agenda and speakers at www.scsh.org.uk |
Scottish Health and Homelessness Conference
Apex City Quay Hotel, Dundee
Thursday 20th and Friday 21st May 2004
Scottish Council for Single Homeless and the Scottish Executive are pleased to invite you to the Scottish Health and Homelessness Conference 2004. The event will be an opportunity to explore the wide variety of issues around ensuring the health needs of homeless people are met. It will also be a chance to network with colleagues in the health, housing and voluntary sectors.
"Action Together", the Health and Homelessness Conference 2002, attracted over 200 delegates and sold out three weeks before the event. Book now to avoid disappointment!
Thursday 20th May
Chaired by Catriona Renfrew, Chairperson, Health and Homelessness Steering group
10.00 - 10.30 | Registration and Coffee |
10.30 - 11.15 | Dr Mac Armstrong, Chief Medical Officer for Scotland
The health needs of homeless people in Scotland - what have we learned? Robert Aldridge, Scottish Council for Single Homeless
The broader picture |
11.15 - 12.00 | Health and Homelessness innovations from across Scotland |
12.00 - 12.30 | Effective Interventions in meeting the health needs of homeless people
Donna Mckinnon, Research Specialist (Young People), NHS Health Scotland |
12.30 - 13.30 | Lunch |
13.30 - 14.45 | Breakouts One (repeated after lunch) 1 Joint training for an effective response
Joy Barlow MBE, Scottish Training on Drugs & Alcohol (STRADA) and Barbara McMenemy,
NHS Argyll & Clyde 2 Evaluation: Measuring Health Improvement
David Morrison and Alice Docherty, NHS Greater Glasgow 3 Joint Working outside the cities: how to get a better service by working together
Gillian Wilson, West Lothian Council and Joan Wilson, NHS Tayside 4 Dual Diagnosis in practice
Phil Mackie, NHS Lothian 5 Preventing Homelessness: the role of Health Visitors and other front line statutory-
sector staff in preventing and tackling homelessness
Julia Egan, NHS Tayside and John Mills, Fife Council |
14.45 - 15.00 | Break |
15.00 - 16.15 | Breakouts Two (repeat of previous session) |
16.15 - 17.00 | User Involvement - Making It Work Groundswell UK |
19.30 | Conference Dinner |
Friday 21st May
Chaired by Sue Irving, Health and Homelessness Co-ordinator, Scottish Executive
9.30 - 10.00 | Engaging with Homeless Drug Users
Nat Wright, GP Consultant |
10.00 - 10.30 | Health and Homelessness innovations from across Scotland |
10.30 - 10.45 | Break |
10.45 - 12.00 | Breakouts Three 11 Health Promotion: making it work for homeless people
Sarah Taylor, NHS Shetland and Morna McKiernan, NHS Fife 12 Specialist services: safety net or dependency?
Susan Montgomerie, Aberdeen Cyrenians, further speaker to be confirmed 13 Overcoming obstacles: Information Sharing and Joint Assessments
Catherine Jamieson, Glasgow Homelessness Partnership 14 Complementary therapies - what's in it for homeless people?
Ken Lawton GP 15 Trauma and Homelessness
Val Holtom, NHS Greater Glasgow |
12.00 - 12.30 | An international perspective
speaker to be confirmed |
12.30 - 13.30 | Lunch |
13.30 - 14.15 | Theatre production - young homeless people and their experence of the NHS |
14.15 - 14.45 | Malcolm Chisholm MSP
Minister for Health and Community Care, Scottish Executive |
14.45 | Closing remarks
Sue Irving, Health & Homelessness Co-ordinator, Scottish Executive |
Booking Form
Scottish Council for Single Homeless (SCSH) is the membership body for organisations and individuals working to tackle homelessness in Scotland.
Scottish Council for Single Homeless
Wellgate House
200 Cowgate
Edinburgh
EH1 1NQ
Tel 0131 226 4382
Fax 0131 225 4382
enquiries@scsh.org.uk
www.scsh.org.uk
SCSH is a charitable company limited by guarantee. Registered in Scotland (SC77026) at Wellgate House, 200 Cowgate, Edinburgh EH1 1NQ and recognised by the Inland Revenue as a charity (SC002734)
The Venue
Find out more about the modern, contemporary venue which is situated in the heart of the new City Quay development in Dundee at www.apexhotels.co.uk
