CATHOLIC MEDICAL ASSOCIATION UK

INAUGURAL NATIONAL CONFERENCE
BRISTOL 25th and 26th APRIL 2009

CATHOLICS IN HEALTHCARE: A CHALLENGING VOCATION

CATHOLICS IN HEALTHCARE:
A CHALLENGING VOCATION

THE INAUGURAL NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE
CATHOLIC MEDICAL ASSOCIATION UK

A CONFERENCE FOR ALL CATHOLIC
HEALTH PROFESSIONALS

BRISTOL 25 APRIL 2009

Novotel, Victoria Street, BS1 6HY Bristol

Programme

Saturday
8.30    Morning prayer of the Church

9.00    Registration and coffee

9.30    Welcome: Dr John Haworth
9.45    Maintaining our vocation in the new NHS: Can Catholic social teaching help us?    
Baroness Cumberlege, former health minister, Vice President of the RCN and RCM, and Chair of the Nolan Review Commission
10.15  Questions

10.30  Ethical challenges to vocation, a Catholic approach
Professor David A Jones, Professor of Bioethics St Mary’s University College Twickenhan

11.00  Winning hearts and minds on embryonic stem cell research
Professor Neil Scolding, Professor of Clinical Neurosciences University of Bristol

11.30 Coffee

12.00  CMA Question Time
Panel discussion chaired by Charles Wookey, Assistant General Secretary of the Catholic Bishops' Conference

13.00  Lunch

14.00  Professional vocation, regulation and conscience
           Jane O'Brien GMC Representative

14.30  Questions

15.00  Workshops: vocation in action, practical examples of people of faith working in healthcare

• Life Pregnancy Care: counseling and support
• Walsingham House: helping homeless people with addictions
• Tina Quinn: palliative care nursing
• Ben Bennett: NHS management

15.30 Tea

15.50  A vision for the future of the CMA
Dr Steven Brennan, National President CMA

16.10  Vocation in the 21st Century
Dr Sheila Cassidy, former political prisoner, palliative care physician and author

17.00  Conference conclusion

17.10  Evening prayer of the Church

Evening event: Novotel Bristol

19.30  Drinks
20.00  Dinner

21.00   "Due Voce" A compilation of popular songs by Barbara and Paula

21.30 An Address by the High Sheriff of Bristol Dr Tim Chambers
22.00  Bar open
22.30  Evening ends

Sunday morning: University of Bristol Catholic Chaplaincy (Directions in delegate pack)

09.00   Medical Missionary Society AGM
09.15   CMA AGM
10.45   AGM concludes
11.00   Conference Mass with Bishop Declan
12.30   Tour of Clifton Cathedral with Peter Harrison
13.00   Simple buffet lunch in Apostle Room (donations to Cathedral charities)
14.00   Departure

Family options

• Visit to Bristol Zoo
• City sight seeing bus tour
• Clifton shops, Suspension Bridge, Observatory and cave
• Games on the Downs
• Arrange baby sitting at a local hotel
• 9.30 Family Mass on Sunday