Updates

We welcome our Guest Speaker Dr. Rineke Schram, Lead Assessment and Remediation Advisor, NHS Resolution, on Wednesday the 20th November, 7pm @ PGMEC

Catharina (known as Rineke) Schram was born in the Netherlands and moved to the UK in 1984.

Rineke worked in the NHS as a Consultant Obstetrician in East Lancashire for nearly 25 years, in many roles. Aside from her clinical expertise, she has years of experience as Medical Director, and experience as Director of Medical Education, Royal College Revalidation Lead, Responsible Officer and external peer reviewer.  Rineke has been the lead Obstetrician for the Lancashire and South Cumbria Local Maternity System (LMS), since its inception in 2017, and is the Clinical Lead for the NorthWest Coast Clinical Network.

Since August 2020 she has been working for the Practitioner Performance Advice service at NHS Resolution, as the Lead Adviser Assessment and Remediation Advisor (LARA), as well as continuing her role with the Clinical Network and LMS. As LARA she is keen to support individual practitioners and teams to provide the high quality services to patients and families that as professionals we aspire to.

Outside of work interests she is an enthusiastic gardener and, more recently, pianist of imperfect proficiency!

For further details please contact admin@medchi.org.uk

The minutes of the meeting on the 16th of October including the summary of the talk by Dr Gail Allsopp have been published and you can access them by clicking here

Nottingham cellist with Sinfonia of London

Royal Concert Hall Nottingham

6pm talk, 7pm concert.

For details and how to book

https://trch.co.uk/whats-on/sinfonia-of-london/

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Please join us this Wednesday 16th of October for Dr Gail Allsopp talk ‘From Nottingham to Whitehall’ at the PGMEC, City Hospital Campus (free parking at the rear of the Centre) or via Teams.

Wine and Nibbles available from 18:30 with the talk starting at 19:00

Dr Gail Allsopp, MBChB MRCS FRCGP MSc, Chief Medical Advisor to the Department of Works and Pensions and nationally elected Council member at the RCGP

Gail was born and raised in Nottingham. She trained at Birmingham University and initially trained in Surgery before returning to the East Midlands to work as a GP. She was appointed as Chief Medical Advisor to the Department for Work and Pensions in September 2023, where she leads the Clinical Policy team, working closely with colleagues in the Department of Health and Social Care (through the Joint Work and Health Unit)

Her portfolio career covered academia at the University of Nottingham, Clinical Policy at the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) and medical leadership; including roles such as the Chief Medical Officer for the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)

Alongside her clinical policy work Gail has just completed her NIHR funded research on Long Covid and is a nationally elected Council member at the RCGP.

For further details please contact admin@medchi.org.uk

Please come and join us for a two hour Glass Fusion Workshop held at the PGMEC  from 10:30 am to 12:30pm.

Stevie Davis will you show you how to make up to 3 decorative hangings and pendants using a glass base and small mosaic pieces which are then taken away and fired. Please note that they will be returned approximately 3 weeks later. https://stevie-davies.co.uk/

Download the booking form, which has payment details and return to our administrator at admin@medchi.org.uk. Please note that places are limited

Booking Form 2024 GFW

Coordinator Helen Percival.

For further details please contact admin@medchi.org.uk