Regional Groups | North Thames

Yvette Kusel
Clinical Lead – Havering Memory Service
Suttons House
119-121 Suttons Lane
Hornchurch RM12 6RU

Tel: 0844 600 1135 (x 6720)

North Thames Group Meetings

All (members, non-members, trainees) are welcome to come to the following quarterly meetings held between 3-4.30.

14th January 2009 : 3pm
Location :
Topic : Disclosing the diagnosis of dementia

23rd April 2009
Location : Room 544, 1-19 Torrington Place, UCL
Topic : Review of book about CMHTs and people with personality disorders

10th July 2009
Location : BPS offices, 30 Tabernacle Street, London EC2A 4UE
Topic: Cross-cultural cognitive assessment presented by Matthew Jones Chesters.

12 October 2009
Location : BPS offices, 30 Tabernacle Street, London EC2A 4UE
Topic: Changes in media representation of older people in cartoons

For further information, please contact Geraint Price using form below.

North Thames PSIGE – Annual Report 2008

Interest in North Thames PSIGE has continued to grow over the past year in the form of requests from people wishing to join the email circulation list, and we now have 37 people on our list, most of whom are PSIGE members. Attendance at our quarterly meetings (held at UCL) began well this year, with thirteen taking part in a discussion of working with interpreters, and ten attending a presentation by Paul Terry on working psychodynamically with older people. Two other meetings where no CPD topic was scheduled were more poorly attended, and we will be planning and advertising dates and CPD/discussion topics well in advance in future to encourage attendance.

Elections were uncontested and the committee remains unchanged from last year. Geraint Price remains convenor; the other committee members are Yvette Kusel, Ruth Lukeman and the three D Clin Psy course reps: Sarah Finnis for UEL, Stephanie Lawrie for UCL, and Sarah Ghani for Royal Holloway.

North Thames is due to host the Annual Conference in 2010 and we have now committed ourselves fully to this. A Conference Organising Group has been formed, possible venues have been visited and the BPS Conferences Service has been engaged to administer the conference.

Future meetings and topics are as follows:

14th July 2008 – (Wilkins Haldane Room, UCL) – Selection of Neuropsychological Tests (open discussion to be led by Stephanie Lawrie).

14th October 2008 – Older Adult Sexuality Issues (Sarah Ghani).

14th January 2009 – Disclosing the Diagnosis of Dementia (Anna Seiffer).

23rd April 2009 – CMHTs and People with Personality Disorders (a book review and discussion to be led by Ruth Lukeman).

Venues of meetings will be advertised on the PSIGE website.

Geraint Price
Convenor, North Thames PSIGE

For further information, please contact
Yvette Kusel using this form :