IMO NCHD National Meeting
Saturday 22nd October 2011
Hogan Suite, Croke Park, Dublin

Registration From 9.00am

Welcome 10.00am
Dr Mark Murphy, Chair IMO NCHD Committee

IMO NCHD Survey Results 10.15am
Mr. John O’Mahony, Associate Director, Behaviour & Attitudes

Shaping IMO NCHD Strategy 10.45am
Ms. Shirley Coulter, Assistant Director Industrial Relations, IMO

‘Postgraduate Training - Challenges & Changes’ 11.15am
Mr. Leo Kearns, CEO Royal College of Physicians,
Secretary Forum of Postgraduate Medical Training Bodies

‘Quality and Patient Safety, the future of the NCHD Workforce’ 11.45am
Dr Philip Crowley, National Director, Quality & Patient Safety, HSE

‘Consultants/GPs/NCHDs- Have we got the balance right?’ 12.15pm
Professor Cillian Twomey, Consultant

‘Associate Specialist Grade - The Northern Ireland Experience’ 12.45pm
Dr Paul Darragh, Associate Specialist,
Chair of British Medical Association Northern Ireland Council

Lunch 1.15pm to 2pm

‘Key Competencies for Managing Pressure & Building Resilience in Clinical Settings’ 2pm
Mr Ray McKiernan, Director Stress Management Institute

Q&A Session with panel of speakers 2.45pm – 4pm

Speaker Biographies

Mr. Leo Kearns
CEO Royal College of Physicians, Secretary Forum of Postgraduate Medical Training Bodies
Mr. Kearns is the Chief Executive Officer of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, the body responsible, through its constituent training bodies, for the delivery of postgraduate medical training in twenty-five specialties. The College is also involved in a range of initiatives particularly in the development of clinical directorates and national clinical programmes. Mr. Kearns also plays an active role in many external and national bodies including as Secretary of the Forum of Irish Postgraduate Medical Training Bodies, Secretary to the Professional Competence Steering Committee, and as a member of both the Advisory Group on National Quality Standards for the Health, Information and Quality Authority, the Implementation Steering Group on Patient Safety and the National Clinical Effectiveness Committee. Mr. Kearns has been involved in many significant projects over the past years working with Government Departments, and State and Voluntary Agencies including the ‘Fottrell Group’, which produced a seminal report on Undergraduate Medical Education in Ireland in 2006, and which forms the basis for Government policy in this area. Mr. Kearns has extensive experience of working in both the private and public sector, and has been particularly active in medical education and training fields for many years.

Dr Philip Crowley
National Director of Quality and Patient Safety, HSE
Dr. Philip Crowley is National Director of Quality and Patient Safety with the HSE since January 2011.
Philip qualified from UCD medical school in 1984. After training in General Practice he worked for five years in Nicaragua, Central America, setting up chronic disease health programmes and working with grassroots community organisations in health development. He then worked in Newcastle upon Tyne and developed the Community Action on Health initiative using a community development approach to creating links between marginalised communities, professional groups and the health service with a view to tackling health inequalities. He has trained in public health medicine and has worked with the Institute of Public Health in Ireland and as Project Director for the General Practice in a Multi-cultural Society project and the General Practice Health Inequalities project with the Irish College of General Practitioners. Philip then worked general practice in the North inner-city of Dublin until he took up the post of Deputy Chief Medical Officer with the Department of Health and Children which he held until taking up his post with the HSE. In his position of National Director, Quality and Patient Safety, Philip has responsibility for: quality improvement, risk management, service user involvement and advocacy, management of serious adverse incidents, national audit, patient safety programmes and the relationship with HIQA and the State Claims Agency

Professor Cillian Twomey
Consultant
Cillian Twomey is a recently retired consultant physician in geriatric medicine. He worked in Cork University Hospital and St. Finbarr’s Hospitals, Cork from 1979 to 2010. In his earlier career, he practiced and trained in Cork, London and Liverpool. He chairs the National Steering Committee of the Hospice friendly Hospitals programme, a joint venture of the HSE and the Irish Hospice Foundation. He was Chairman of the Ninth and final Comhairle na nOspidéal Board from February 2001 to December 2005. He was a member of the Steering Group of the National Task Force for Medical Staffing (Hanly) that reviewed the organisation and staffing of Ireland’s acute hospital sector. He also chaired the National Implementation Group of the European Working Time Directive that piloted various projects related to achieving compliance with the terms of the EWTD in Ireland. He was President of the Union Européenne des Médecins Spécialistes (UEMS) - European Union of Medical Specialists from 1999 to 2002, the only Irish person to have held this position; he also is a former President of the Irish Medical Organisation and former Chairman of its Consultant Committee.

Dr Paul Darragh
Associate Specialist, Chair of British Medical Association Northern Ireland Council
Paul Darragh is Chairman of the Northern Ireland Council, BMA and former Chairman of the NI Staff and Associate Specialists Committee (NISASC) . He is currently Co-Deputy Chairman of NISASC, a member of the SASC UK negotiating team and an associate specialist in general medicine in the Mid-Ulster Hospital. Professional details below:
• Core Team member from inception (April 2005)
• Member Negs Sub from April 2005
• NISASC chair 2006 – 2009
• Member of Staff and Associate Specialist Contract Implementation Group (SASCIG)
• Northern Board (NI) Rep on NISASC from 2003
• Member Northern Board (NI) LNC from 2002
• Secretary Medical Staff Committee Mid-Ulster Hospital since 1999
• NI Council Chair 2009-2012

Whilst Chairman of the BMA’s NI Staff & Associate Specialists Committee, Dr Darragh helped negotiate a new contract for this group of doctors and is currently assisting the implementation of the contract through SASCIG.

Mr. Ray McKiernan
Director, Stress Management Institute
Ray McKiernan M.A is a director, specialist skills trainer, lecturer and training consultant with the Stress Management Institute of Ireland. He is a certified Stress and Wellness consultant with the internationally renowned Hans Selye Foundation in Canada and has completed his clinical training in Mind-Body Medicine in the Harvard Medical School in Boston. He is a fellow of the American Institute for Stress. He designs and delivers stress management trainer programmes to occupational health professionals working in many areas including Human Resources, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Occupational Therapy and Palliative Care. Ray also lectures on stress and managing Psychotherapy students at postgraduate level. Ray provides Stress Management training to healthcare, pharmaceutical, financial, engineering and software industries. As a specialist instructor to the Irish Defence Forces, Ray designed and facilitated the implementation of their stress management trainer programmes. Ray has a depth of experience delivering skills development programmes for employees working under pressure. He is one of Irelands leading authorities on evidence based interventions for managing pressure and building resilience in the workplace. Working with all levels of the organization, he implements comprehensive, skills based training for effectively managing pressure and improving performance. He has delivered specialist training to medical professionals in managing stress and pressure in clinical settings, managing challenging behavior and specialist training in delivering difficult news to Specialist Registrars working in a leading centre of excellence in Oncology. Ray has designed and delivered programmes in Managing Pressure and Building resilience to senior management teams in two leading Fortune 100 best Companies to Work for. In addition, he presents specialist seminars to many different professional organisations including the Institute of Bankers, the Law Society, the Actuarial Profession, the Migraine Association, The Sales Institute, the Employee Assistance Professionals Association (EAPA) and the Irish Business and Employers Confederation (IBEC).

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