Tag: Margins

  • Healthcare at the margins in the age of Covid

    Healthcare at the margins in the age of Covid

    CMA Annual Conference and AGM
    Healthcare at the margins in the age of Covid
    Via Zoom
    Date: Saturday 22nd May 2021
    Time: 9:15am
    Who: All are warmly welcome to the conference. The AGM is open to CMA members only. To become a member of the CMA, please register here.

    How do we support the homeless, disadvantaged and other vulnerable people?
    How does the Catholic Church support and protect people in need?
    What does our faith tell us about how we should respond?

    This year’s Annual Conference will look at all these issues and also think through some of the ways in which that all changed with Covid.

    The AGMs of the CMA (UK) and the Catholic Medical Missionary Society (CMMS) will start at 9:15am.
    The conference itself will start at 11am and run through till 1pm.
    Following the conference, Holy Mass will be streamed from Arundel Cathedral in Sussex.

    To book your place and get access codes please email cmaconf39@gmail.com

  • Conference and AGM 2020: Healthcare at the Margins

    Conference and AGM 2020: Healthcare at the Margins

    Postponed due to COVID-19 outbreak

    Talks:

    The Church’s work countering modern Slavery, Rt Rev Bishop P Lynch, Chair of the Committee for Overseas Mission CBEW

    Mental health of refugees, Paul Farmer CBE, Chief Executive of Mind

    The Jesuit Refugee Centre, Nicholas Hanrahan, Community Outreach Officer

    Understanding the needs of our Gypsy and Traveller Families, Lisa Gavin Clinical Lead for Inclusion Health and Gypsy and Traveller Health projects Surrey

    Euthanasia: A secular or religious issue?, Michael Wee Education and Research Officer, The Anscombe Bioethics Centre, Oxford

    Issues in Palliative Care, Dr Marie Joseph MB BS FRCP Medical Director & Consultant in Palliative Medicine, St Raphael’s Hospice, Surrey and Macmillan Consultant, Epsom & St Heliers Hospital