PPN NW Newsletter
Friday, 7th March 2025
Welcome to the latest edition of the Psychological Professions Network North West newsletter. We aim to bring you the latest updates about our work to join up psychological professionals, associated stakeholders, carers and experts by experience in the region.
Date set for Genetic counselling Lunch and Learn Webinar
Genetic Counselling Webinar
Lunch and Learn with us on Friday 25th April 12.30pm - 1.00pm
This free, online event is for members of the Psychological Professions Network North West (PPN NW) organised in partnership with NHS North West Genomic Medicine Service Alliance
As genomic medicine becomes embedded into many different services within the NHS it will be pertinent to many different workforce groups within the Psychological Professions. Knowledge of genomic medicine will aid interactions with patients and improve your practice.
Practitioner Psychologists Return to Practice
Supporting practitioner psychologists back into their roles after some time out of their profession brings benefits to patients and the returner, as well as the employing organisation. The NHSE Return to Practice programme supports practitioner psychologists, as well as other professions, back to the Health and Care Professions council (HCPC) register.
We’re currently supporting 871 returners to return, 101 of those in the Northwest region. And so far in 2024-25, 194 individuals have returned to the register, 15 of these in London.
If you are an organisation seeking to support returners or wanting to find out more, please do get in touch with the national programme and we can link you up with your regional leads. As well as general queries we can help with:
Telling you how to claim £500 for supporting a returner with supervised practice
Adding you to the organisation list we share with returners so they can connect with you
Providing a Return to Practice organisation guide.
This video tells you more about Central London Community Healthcare’s experience of supporting returners, take a look
Hear from a Clinical Psychologist returner here
To contact the national NHSE Return to Practice programme team to find out more please email: england.r2pahp-hcs@nhs.net
Talking Therapies – Rescheduled Autumn Statement Webinars – 2 part series 2025
Realising the benefits of Autumn Statement 2023 Part 1: Growing the Talking Therapies workforce in line with the Autumn Statement – Thursday 24th April 2025 at 11:30 to 13:00.
Description:
The 2023 Autumn Statement provided the NHS with ringfenced funding to expand and rebalance the Talking Therapies workforce to ensure that more receive a course of NICE psychological therapy. This webinar provides practical guidance to assist the system in optimal developments of its workforce and will include information on types of funding available, how to access funding and required workforce expansion. The webinar will be of particular interest to service leads, commissioners and others in leadership roles.
Presenters:
- David Clark – National Clinical Advisor for NHS Talking Therapies
- Adrian Whittington - National Clinical Lead for Psychological Professions
- Jane Saunders-Bain – National Head of Adult Mental Health
- Naheem Akhtar – National MH Programme Delivery Lead
To join this webinar CLICK HERE
No registration for this event is required.
Autumn Statement Part 2: Enhancing our Clinical Model - Wednesday 30th April 2025 - 13:30 to 15:00.
Description:
The 2023 autumn statement provides funding to modestly increase the average dose of therapy to further improve the clinical outcomes that patients experience in Talking Therapies services. This webinar covers a wide range of research findings and clinical insights that will help services optimally deploy their resources to further increase rates of reliable recovery and improvement.
Presenters:
- David Clark– National Clinical Advisor for NHS Talking Therapies
- Others TBC
To join this webinar CLICK HERE
No registration for this event is required.
Endometriosis Action Month 2025
Endometriosis impacts 1 in 10 women and those assigned female at birth in the UK, yet so many are still unaware of the condition and its impact.
For Endometriosis Action Month 2025, our theme is 'Endometriosis Explained', exploring both how endometriosis must be better understood by the general public and better explained to patients by all healthcare practitioners.
Throughout Action Month, Endometriosis UK are sharing webinars aimed at those with endometriosis and those looking to further their knowledge and support others.
Coming up next...
Endometriosis and Work: Breaking Barriers, Building Support - Wednesday 12th March 1pm-2pm
The Cost of Endometriosis in Wales: Virtual Panel Event - Tuesday 25th March 7pm-8pm
You can find more about how you can get involved here.
International Women’s Day
International Women’s Day (IWD) is marked on 8 March each year. International Women’s Day is a global event celebrating and recognising the achievements of women while calling for gender equality.
Focusing on the need to Accelerate Action emphasizes the importance of taking swift and decisive steps to achieve gender equality. It calls for increased momentum and urgency in addressing the systemic barriers and biases that women face, both in personal and professional spheres. Find out more on how to get involved here.
Technostress, technosuffering and relational strain
Technostress, technosuffering, and relational strain: a multi-method qualitative study of how remote and digital work affects staff in UK general practice
This paper considers how the remote and digital forms of working in General Practice has affected staff. Considering how prevalent technostress, technosuffering, and relational strain is amongst this staff group. Read the article here.
Perinatal mental health frame of mind workshop – ‘safeguarding and risk’
Perinatal mental health frame of mind workshop – ‘safeguarding and risk’ Wednesday 12 March, 10:00am-12:00pm
To support implementation of the NHS long term plan commitment to increase access to evidence-based psychological therapies within specialist perinatal mental health (PMH) services, the NHS England national PMH team are hosting a series of workshops.
The next (and final!) workshop will focus on safeguarding and risk.
The webinar is aimed at psychological professionals working within specialist community PMH teams and maternal mental health services, and people working within the pathway to support development and embedding of psychological provision within PMH including maternity and talking therapies.
Preceptor Webinar
Preceptor Webinar 25th March between 11:00am and 12:30pm virtually.
It is aimed at preceptors, supervisors and mentors who want to improve the welcome and support newly qualified registrants receive when they join their organisation, and to help ensure more colleagues in early career stay and stay well in the NHS.
This is the final in a series of four webinars aimed at helping to improve the knowledge, skills and behaviours of experienced practitioners supporting newly qualified registrants. This webinar will focus on evidence-based interventions and strategies to help practitioners provide adequate support in easing the onboarding and transition experience of our newly qualified registrant colleagues.
Applications open for NHS England’s Population Health Fellowship fifth cohort
NHS England’s Population Health Fellowship for health and care workforces in England aims to develop and grow a workforce of professionals who will incorporate population health into their everyday jobs.
Providing exciting opportunities for a wide range of health professionals successful applicants will embark on a year-long part-time fellowship, two days a week, alongside their substantive posts. As part of the initiative, they will receive a taught learning programme provided by the University of Salford and will be required to undertake a project in the workplace.
Applications for the fellowships fifth cohort are open until 27 June 2025
NHS Talking Therapies for Underserved Groups
The Health, Work, Prevention & Inequalities team are looking to speak to people with experience commissioning or providing NHS Talking Therapies services, as below. If you might be able to support, they would be really grateful if you could contact them by emailing anna.carden1@nhs.net and yael.gold1@nhs.net
We are conducting research to better understand the challenges people have with accessing NHS Talking Therapies. We would love to hear from you and give you an opportunity to have your say. As a provider, your expertise is invaluable in shaping improvements that can enhance people’s awareness of and access to effective treatments for common mental health conditions
We are inviting you to take part in a 45-minute interview, where you’ll have the opportunity to share your insights on:
How service providers currently engage with target user groups
The role of digital tools and messaging in increasing uptake of talking therapies
Capacity challenges and operational constraints in providing access to talking therapies
What support would help improve accessibility
We Want Your thoughts on PPN Communications and the Newsletter!
Next week PPN NW will be launching a survey for your views on how we communicate, what works well, what could be done better and how it could be improved.
Keep an eye on your inboxes next week for an extra-special Newsflash with further details.
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By receiving this email you are a confirmed member of the PPN NW; however, have you considered joining one of our Communities of Practice (CoP)? Please see links below for information on how to join one of our CoPs:
PPN NW Mailing List Review
The Psychological Professions Network depends on the engagement of its members. To do this we need to ensure we have an accurate and up to date register and mailing list to enable us to keep you regularly updated with events, policy changes, projects and more.
Due to an error on our website registration form, a number of people who have created PPN NW accounts have automatically been opted out of communications and, therefore, are not receiving professional updates or event opportunities – effectively negating any benefit of being a member! We are therefore in the process of opting all of these members back into communications. Please do email us if you wish to remain opted out of communications.
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