Inclusion Health
Overview
Socially excluded populations, including people who experience homelessness, use drugs, engage in sex work, are or have been incarcerated, are of Irish Traveller or Roma background, and/or are vulnerable migrants, face significant healthcare challenges. These challenges, often unaddressed, require specialised interventions tailored to their unique mental and physical health needs, and their social and material circumstances.
Inclusion health, a research, policy, and practice approach focused on understanding and meeting the health needs of socially excluded people, is growing into an established specialism in Ireland, both in hospital and community settings.
Ireland is a leading country in developing and deploying this specialism over the last decade. The world’s first hospital-led inclusion health team was established in Dublin in 2018 with one half-time consultant and one full-time nurse manager in St James’s Hospital. There are now three multidisciplinary inclusion health hospital teams in Ireland (each in Dublin): in Children's Health Ireland, St James’s hospital, and the Mater Hospital. These teams are made up of doctors, nurses, social workers, and case managers, and they collaborate closely with a number of other specialties within the two hospitals. Policy and health service investment in inclusion health is currently growing, with the Department of Health developing a framework for inclusion health in Ireland and the Health Service Executive developing a model of care.
Who is this Course For?
The course content is aimed at healthcare practitioners (doctors, nurses, health and social care) practicing in the Irish health service in inclusion health or with a special interest in inclusion health.
Who Teaches the Course?
Course Leader: Prof Clíona Ní Cheallaigh
Course coordinator: Dr Rikke Siersbaek
Course lecturers:
Dr Niamh Allen, Inclusion health consultant St James's Hospital
Dr Aoibheann Conneely, Inclusion health palliative care physician, St James's Hospital and Lecturer Trinity College Dublin
Rachael Ferguson, Inclusion health social worker, St James's Hospital
Prof Jo-Hanna Ivers, Associate Professor, Trinity College Dublin
Prof Rory Hearne, Maynooth University
Paul Merrigan, Person-centred care lead, Inclusion health service, St James's Hospital
Prof Clíona Ní Cheallaigh, Consultant doctor and inclusion health lead St James's Hospital and Associate Professor, Trinity College Dublin
Dr Austin O’Carroll, Grangegorman Family Practice & North Dublin City GP Training Scheme
Prof Patrick O’Donnell, GP and Associate professor at University of Limerick
Dr Georgia Richard, Neurologist St James’s Hospital and ICAT PhD Scholar, Inclusion Health Research Group, Trinity College Dublin
Jess Sears, Inclusion Health ANP, St James’s Hospital
Dr Rikke Siersbaek, Research Fellow, Inclusion Health Research Group, Trinity College Dublin
Dr Eileen Sweeney, Consultant psychiatrist with the Inclusion Mental Health Service in Dublin South
Dr Aoibhinn Walsh, Children’s Health Ireland
Sheenagh Walsh, Psych nurse in SJH
Time, Date, and Place
Session 1: 16 October 2024, 9.30-16.30 - Trinity Centre for Health Sciences, St. James's Hospital, Dublin 8
Sessions 2-8: November 2024 - May 2025, monthly on the 2nd Wednesday of the month, 17.30-19.30 - online
Session 9: 11 June 2025, 9.30-16.30, in person location TBD
CPD Accreditation
This course is CPD Approved by the Royal College of Physicians Ireland.
A total of 30 CPD Credits can be claimed after completing this course (24 External Credits endorsed by RCPI and 6 Personal Learning Credits). The CPD attendance certificate issued to attendees will have 24 Credits. The remaining six credits will be earned via preparatory work assigned and can be claimed as Personal Learning Credits by attendees.
Course Fees
Consultants on POCC: €4,000
SpRs: €1,000
Health and Social Care, other HCPs and Participants: €500
Please contact Rikke Siersbaek (siersbar@tcd.ie) if you don’t have access to CPD funding and we can work out an arrangement.
Apply/ Enrol
To secure your place, please contact Ms Beth Whitney at MedCPD@tcd.ie confirming payment via the below link (or if you wish to pay via invoice & PO).
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Get in Touch/ Email
Dr Rikke Siersbaek siersbar@tcd.ie, for academic queries
Ms Beth Whitney MedCPD@tcd.ie for administrative / invoicing queries