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Dear colleagues, I would like to make you aware of this event in Oxford with limited funded places (funding covers delegate fee and refreshments only)
Seeking the welfare of healthcare workers (Oxford Medical Humanities Conference Sept 28)
Abstract deadline 5pm on August 25th
The goal of this conference is to explore how partnership between healthcare workers and medical humanities can support that prerequisite for excellent patient care, namely the welfare of healthcare workers. Healthcare services around the world, including the UK NHS, have rightly, in recent times, emphasised the importance of caring for their workforce.
Many global healthcare traditions have for centuries emphasised the welfare of the healer or healthcare worker. In developed healthcare cultures this has been at times forgotten and then rediscovered. So this new emphasis from the NHS is welcome amidst the deep challenges to morale that many healthcare workers are now experiencing. However, making the most of it in practice requires depth of understanding so that change does not proceed on an ad hoc or, worse, superficial and token basis.
Healthcare workers are people, with beliefs and values, narratives, culture and history, all of which have the potential to shape how healthcare is experienced. The complexities of both being and caring for embodied, suffering, narrative creatures are illumined by the wisdom and insight which the subject matter and disciplines of humanities scholarship offer.
The theme of ‘Seeking the Welfare of Healthcare Workers’ will provide a starting point and fruitful focus for colleagues in the medical humanities, medical sciences and in healthcare services to work together, form a stronger collective identity and discover new opportunities for research, engagement and practical policy changes which will serve the public good. We hope that our gathering in September will strengthen existing initiatives and cause new ones to emerge in order to serve our overall shared goals. http://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/seeking-welfare-healthcare-workers
I would be grateful if anyone shares these in their networks/bulletin boards
Andrew
Dr Andrew N Papanikitas BSc (Hons) MA MBBS DCH MRCGP DPMSA PhD
NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer in General Practice, Oxford University
Director, WSAL Course in Philosophy and Ethics
Council Member, GP and Open Sections, Royal Society of Medicine
Ethics and Philosophy Editor, London Journal of Primary Care
Portfolio GP, Oxford
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Oxford page https://www.phc.ox.ac.uk/team/andrew-papanikitas
Publications website http://www.amazon.co.uk/Andrew-Papanikitas/e/B0034PRAZ6/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_pop_1
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