Education
Interactive 'CPD with a difference' for primary health care professionals
JoinedUpHealth Courses are
Created in and for primary care, free from industry influence
Small-scale and interactive
Based on a balance of evidence, ideas and discussion
Intended to clarify, enable, and refresh
To bring you these courses Dr Andrew Morrice draws on over 20 years experience of general practice, teaching and speaking, including 15 years facilitating small group learning and lecturing on the Whole Person Care course at Bristol Medical School.
Joined-Up-Health in Primary Care
(‘The Lost Update’)
Two Day Online Course - £195
Suitable for all primary care professionals
Would you like to…
Feel better equipped to deal with some of the more complex patients you care for?
Build your confidence with non-pharmacological approaches, and deepen your understanding of how these fit together?
Explore the science behind terms like ‘lifestyle’, ‘person centred’, ‘resilience’, or ‘integrative’?
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The course provides a fresh overview of healthcare as well as practical resources. It keeps one foot firmly planted in the realities of your day-to-day work, the other on basic sciences.
The course has been devised to be rich and varied, like a good ‘buffet’ catering for a wide range of learning needs and outcomes. These can range from updating consultation skills and styles, acquiring new skills to deal with distressed patients, consolidating the science behind ‘lifestyle’ medicine, clarifying the debates around nutrition, through to self-care and resilience.
Colleague Testimonials
On this course you can…
+ Simplify
- Cut through the complexity of modern health care to focus on the things that will make the biggest difference across the board
- Simple rules and learnable techniques on how to use language to best effect.
- Straightforward techniques to focus attention on solutions and recovery.
+ Discover
- The biology of emotional responses and how these link to chronic disease.
- The surprising science of placebos
- The fundamentals of sleep as a resource, the drivers of sleep, and the conditions needed to get a good night's rest.
- A dietary pattern likely to either prevent or improve outcomes in the majority of chronic diseases.
- A whole new way of seeing diabetes, depression and chronic disease management generally.
- The drivers of 'chronic inflammation' and how this links to depression.
- The fundamentals of creating and maintaining a healthy microbiome, and why this matters.
+ Understand
- How our brains actually process reality (rather than how we imagine we think)
- What this means for us in practice
- Why “exercise” is such a strange idea, and why many people find it hard to “exercise”.
- Why a quirk of evolution means that emotional arousal can always be managed, often within normal consultations.
- How CBT works, despite being based on outdated theory, and why patients may find it hard work.
- The many processes described as Mindfulness, and when it is most (and least) helpful.
+ Recognise
- New opportunities to avoid medicalising our patients' difficulties.
- Unhelpful words, phrases and concepts that crop up in consultations and how to shift to more useful frames of reference
- Sub-clinical trauma, one of the most common drivers of ill-health – particularly mental illness and functional disorders.
- Why it is so hard for any of us to think rationally about diet and health.
In addition to two and a half days (12 hours live and 3 hours pre-recorded) of enjoyable learning you will receive:
A PDF of the ‘Information bearing’ slides
Further reading and key references list
Access to the full references
Access to a drop-in follow-up session
Places are limited to 24 per online course, book early to avoid disappointment.
Education provider organisations can find more information here.
Depression? There is Hope!
This well received half-day training is now available as a pre-recorded online learning module as well as in person.
This course was run at events organised by local Education Providers both in person and as an on-line seminar between 2019 and 2022. A pre-recorded version is now available. There is no charge for the online course, but donations to the Human Givens Foundation are invited and will help maintain and extend this online offer.
If you would like to run the course live at an in person on online event, or book a ‘live Q&A’ to follow on from a group completing the course, please email courses@joineduphealth.net
This 3 hour course has been designed to enable participants to:
Deepen their understanding of depression
Develop more confidence in creating treatment plans with patients
Understand the science behind non-pharmacological modalities
Develop more skills to directly help patients within the consultation
This half day course can be extended to a whole day with the inclusion of information on anxiety.
We hope to make the course availale pre-recorded videos online.
To register interest in bringing this training to your area please get in touch
Depression? There is Hope! - Attendee Testimonials
By the end of the course participants will…
Have learned how to engage with depressed patients without “catching” their low mood and anxiety.
Have more ways, within the GP consultation timeframe, of making a difference for the many patients who aren’t simply seeking a prescription.
Have learned how new ideas in neuroscience can inform our work with patients with depression (and many other linked disorders)
Have a clear understanding of how inflammation as a cause of depression actually ties together much of what we already knew.
Have gained language and other skills to make consultations with depressed patients more productive, and (we dare say) enjoyable.
Team Training
(Health Connections Mendip)
Mendip Health Connections is part of a ground-breaking social prescribing & wellbeing project based in Frome, Somerset, building healthier, more supportive communities, identifying gaps in service provision, building social capital and developing the work of a range of Community Connectors and Health Connectors.
JoinedUpHealth is currently working with the Health Connector team and Primary Health Professionals in the wider Mendip group of PCNs to help embed this approach into the wider health community, create patient resources, and provide training tailored to different parts of Primary Healthcare Team.
We hope to be able to share what we have learned and developed in Mendip with other health-care teams in the future.
To bring this training to your area please get in touch.
The Mind-body Connection
One day course - Provided by Human Givens College
First devised in 2014 and consistently highly rated by attendees, this seminar explores the full bio-psycho-social implications of the Human Givens model, for therapists in training
