Building Psychological Services within Weight Management and Bariatric Surgery Settings
- Obesity
- Social and behavioural
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The BPS Obesity and Bariatric SIG is a network of psychological professionals working in the area of obesity and weight management. As such, we know the many challenges that professionals can face when advocating for increased psychological provision in this area, and the disparity in psychological support that can occur between weight management services.
During this session, we will hear from several experts in the field of weight management and service commissioning. We hope to offer an engaging and informative afternoon that will support professionals working in the area of obesity and weight management to better understand the commissioning landscape, and to build confidence in constructing a business case for establishing or increasing psychological provision.
We hope to address many of the common questions that may arise including: Why is commissioning important? How are services commissioned? What role do I play in service commissioning? How do I build a business case for psychology in a weight management setting?
Ultimately, we hope that this session provides the opportunity for us to learn from each other and generate practical change in weight management settings. We hope you can join us!
Registration is now open.
Registration is online only and payable by card, we are unable to accept registrations over the phone and invoices cannot be provided.
| Delegate category | Fee payable by delegate (incl. 20% VAT) |
| Concessions/Student Member | £10 |
| PASC Member | £10 |
| BPS Member | £30 |
| Non-BPS Member | £60 |
Returning Customers (Members and non-members)
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Non-returning customers (Members and non-members)
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Programme
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13.00 |
Welcome and poll questions |
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13.15 |
An Introduction to Commissioning Dr Claire Maguire will provide some context regarding why commissioning is important, and what role we can play in advocating for increased psychological support in multidisciplinary team services. |
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13.45 |
A Commissioner's Perspective Russell Don will provide some context to the commissioning landscape from a commissioner perspective: how services are developed in accordance with population need; where do business cases go once they are submitted; how are Integrated Care Board's structured; what factors do the commissioning team consider in their decision making? |
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14.15 |
Q&A session with Claire and Russell |
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14.30 |
BREAK |
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14:50 |
A Service Design and Business Case Example Dr Heidi Napier will explore a "real life" example of building a business case; exploring the Do's and Don'ts, and lessons learnt, of service development. |
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15.20 |
Q&A session with Heidi and BPS SIG |
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15.35 |
Future directions: How do we move forward from here |
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15.50 |
Poll questions and feedback |
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16.00 |
CLOSE |
Speakers
Dr Claire Maguire
Claire Maguire is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and psychotherapist. She retired in March 2022 after 40 years in the NHS.She worked in a variety of roles and settings including forensic psychology and in specialist trauma services. Her last role was as the Clinical and professional lead for psychological therapies for a large Mental health trust in the North west. She developed a North West wide psychological therapies service for Military Veterans and was part of a collaboration of NHS providers and commissioners who set up the Manchester resilience Hub in response to the Arena bombing in Manchester. The Hub has since led the way on providing care and support following other major incidents and helped to develop the NHS COVID response.
Claire also worked for many years as a health commissioner. She worked closely with GPs, Mental Health and Acute care colleagues to commission health care across Bury, a borough of Greater Manchester. She subsequently went on to be part of the North West Clinical Senate which had oversight on commissioning decisions over a large area of the North West and South Cumbria.
Claire is now working part time as a mentor for NHS Trusts and social care organisations that are implementing and delivering Schwartz Rounds. These aim to promote compassionate care and provide staff with a place to reflect on the emotional cost of their work.
Russell Don
Russell qualified as a respiratory physiotherapist, working for over 12 years in clinical roles including as an intensive care respiratory physiotherapist, a cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation physiotherapist, and with amputees and people with obesity. Russell continued his career in the NHS as service redesign and transformation project and programme manager. He has worked in the NHS for over 27 years.
Russell currently works for South East London Integrated Care Board and Partnership Southwark as commissioner and programme manager for Heathy Populations Team. His portfolio of work specifically relates to primary and secondary prevention for a wide range of clinical areas including sexual health, diabetes, musculoskeletal conditions, heathy weight , latent TB and physical activity in the borough of Southwark.
Dr Heidi Napier
Dr Heidi Napier is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist with over 20 years experience of working in Physical Health settings within the NHS. She is the Lead Psychologist for Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.
Heidi has been involved in the development of weight management programmes since 2014, and worked directly in Tier 3 and 4 Specialist Weight Management since 2016. She is committed and passionate about developing and supporting psychologically informed, equitable and safe services that prioritise partnership working and can be adaptable to individuals diverse needs and preferences.
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