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The FFLM will be holding their next Mental Health Care and Learning Disability Day for Healthcare professionals /clinicians working in GFM and SOM day on Saturday 08 June 2019 in Birmingham.

The training day programme will be available soon.

Confirmed speakers include:

• Professor Keith Rix (visiting Professor of Medical Jurisprudence and Honorary Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Trust)

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The fees are:

• Members £150
• Non-members £200

The Faculty of Forensic & Legal Medicine are pleased to announce that bookings for their 13th Annual Conference in Cardiff are now open!

The conference programme will follow in the coming weeks as their Conference Secretary and Conference Subcommittee finalise all the details. The themes for 2019 will include Miscarriages of Justice and Vulnerable Victims. Currently, our confirmed list of speakers include:

• Dr Juliet Cohen, Head of Doctors, Freedom from Torture;
• Judge Leslie Cuthbert, Crown Court Recorder, Police Misconduct Panel Chair for the Metropolitan Police and Tribunal Judge of the First Tier Tribunal (Mental Health);
• Mr Neil Dalton, Police Misconduct Panel Chair;
• Catrin Evans, IOPC Regional Director for Wales;
• Dr Peter Green, Consultant Forensic Physician and Designated Doctor for Child Safeguarding, St George’s Hospital, London;
• Sally Holland, Children’s Commissioner for Wales;
• Professor Tim Thompson, Professor of Applied Biological Anthropology; Associate Dean (Learning & Teaching) School of Science & Engineering, Teesside University.

Early bird fees will be available until midnight on Sunday 10 March 2019.

To book your place, please click here.

To view conference ticket prices and options, please click here.

If you have any questions, please contact forensic.medicine@fflm.ac.uk

Conference Theme

The management of individuals with a personality disorder is both a challenging and controversial area of psychiatry. Personality disorders are often misunderstood and misdiagnosed and despite the evidence for a range of effective approaches personality disorder service provision remains patchy and of uncertain quality with the commissioning of services fragmented between CCGs, local authorities and NHS.

This event will take a close look across existing guidance and promote, share and introduce current best practice in the treatment of personality disorder.

The delivery of evidence-based health-based treatments for personality disorder is necessary, but not sufficient, to tackle the issue. New organisational structures and theoretical frameworks are emerging, but this requires effective leadership and funding.

With this event, we intend to open up that wider debate about ‘what is it about the whole system that we need to change?’ in order to make the care of those with difficulties associated with personality disorder services effective, holistic and acceptable.

What to expect from this event?

This event comprises sessions and talks given by professionals and experts in the field of personality disorder from a broad range of clinical backgrounds and expertise, offering different insights gained into best practice. The format also offers opportunities for delegates to participate.

The intended outcome of this event sees that delegates will be better informed about personality disorders; understanding how they arise, who gets diagnosed with them, what they really are and how to better identify them in the clinical setting. We also hope the delegates will have a better feel of the current debates in the field as well as developing their own networks.

By including the most up-to-date clinical guidelines and multiple well-established intervention strategies, this conference will help healthcare workers and other professionals to maximize their treatment impact by learning about these current evidence-based best practices and how to apply them in their own clinical setting.

Who is this conference suitable for?

This event will be useful to practitioners working in both secure and non-secure settings with patients who have personality disorders, learning how to support them while guaranteeing the continuation of professional development and ensuring a service that is both user and family/carer focused. It will also be helpful to policymakers and commissioners.

For a 25% discount on the registration fee. Please enter your discount code: PD7519OD

Now in its 5th year, this annual meeting will explore postgraduate subjects and common dilemmas in forensic and legal medicine.

This evening meeting will provide an insight into the various career paths that can be taken and what various careers will entail.

This event is not to be missed by any student or trainee wanting to get into forensic medicine.

Topics include:

• Develop skills and knowledge of forensic and legal medicine in areas applicable to daily practice
• Common medico-legal dilemmas, issues around death certification
• Procedures involved in the investigation of rape and sexual assault
• Direction and careers advice to those looking to extend their involvement, or get into  this area

This meeting will address aspects of self-harm and suicide that will be of interest to various forensic practitioners.

Delegates will get to explore many aspects and contexts of self-harm and suicide risk, such as in custodial settings, changes in prevalence, differences across cultures, and self-harm in particular populations: victims of sexual assaults and in students and doctors.

Hear experiences and Coroner views when faced with a cluster of suicides in a specific area, and the effects on relatives by these tragedies.

Delegates will also examine how the internet plays a role in producing contagion in populations and how this can be combated.

Although the meeting features experts in this field, it is designed to provide ample space for questions and discussion so that participants have the opportunity to tailor this to their own areas of interest.  It is held under the Chatham House Rule to promote this.

topics include:

• The Coroner’s experience in dealing with a cluster of suicides, related in time and geography
• Experiences of relatives dealing with these tragic events will be outlined.
• The evidence regarding how to assess and manage risks of suicide and self-harm in custodial settings, especially the police station.
• The effects of the internet and peer groups in clusters of self-harm and suicide, how this has changed over time, and how it might be managed.
• The issues around doctors and suicide and how this group can be best supported.
• The links between sexual violence and self-harm, and how to manage this when it arises, in acute and longer-term settings.
• Changes in the prevalence of self-harm and suicide across time and between cultures will be described and possible explanations considered.