Inclusion Health
Overview
People who experience one or more aspects of social exclusion, such as, state care in childhood, drug addiction, incarceration, homelessness, forced migration and/or belonging to a minoritised ethnic group such as Traveller, aboriginal or Roma face high levels of ill-health and significant challenges in accessing healthcare. Reducing health inequity requires specialised interventions tailored to the unique mental and physical health needs of people experiencing social exclusion (PESE), and their psychosocial and material circumstances.
Inclusion Health (IH) is an approach to practice, research and policy focused on understanding and meeting the health needs of people with experience of social exclusion. IH is growing into an established approach to healthcare in Ireland, both in hospital and community settings.
Ireland is a leading country in developing and deploying expertise in Inclusion Health over the last decade. The world’s first hospital-led Inclusion Health team was established in Dublin in 2016 with one half-time consultant and one full-time nurse manager in St James’s Hospital and was rapidly followed by the establishment of an IH team in the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital (MMUH) and Children’s Health Ireland (CHI). An Inclusion Health approach has become part of national health policy and the HSE has established eight additional interdisciplinary hospital-based IH teams on a pilot basis, as well as an array of community-based services using an IH approach. The Irish Department of Health is currently developing a framework for inclusion health in Ireland and the Health Service Executive is developing an Inclusion Health model of care.
Who is this Course For?
The course content is aimed at healthcare practitioners (doctors, nurses, health and social care practitioners) practicing in the Irish health service in Inclusion Health teams or with a special interest in Inclusion Health.
The course will work as a community of practice, and recognises that all participants have equally valuable knowledge and experience. It will be highly interactive and, of course, inclusive!
Who Teaches the Course?
Course Leader: Prof Clíona Ní Cheallaigh
Course coordinator: Dr Rikke Siersbaek
Course speakers/lecturers (TBC):
- Dr Austin O’Carroll, Grangegorman Family Practice & North Dublin City GP Training Scheme
- Mr Joe Doyle, National Lead Social Inclusion
- Mr Jim Walsh, Department of Health
- Dr Ciaran Browne, HSE Acute Operations
- Dr Tara McGinty, Inclusion Health Consultant, MMUH
- Dr Niamh Allen, Inclusion Health consultant St James's Hospital
- Prof Patrick O’Donnell, GP and Associate professor at University of Limerick
- Dr Aoibheann Conneely, Palliative Care consultant, St James's Hospital
- Rachael Ferguson, Inclusion Health senior medical social worker, St James's Hospital
- Dr Eileen Sweeney, Consultant psychiatrist with the Inclusion Mental Health Service in Dublin South
- Dr Aoibhinn Walsh, Children’s Health Ireland
- 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, Inclusion Health consultant St James's Hospital and Associate Professor, Trinity College Dublin
- 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
- Sheenagh Walsh, Inclusion Mental Health Nurse, SJH
- Prof Julie Broderick, TCD
- Prof Siobhan Neville, Paediatric Inclusion Health Consultant and A, University of Limerick
- Eibhlín Collins, Inclusion Health ANP, Mercy University Hospital, Cork
Time, Date, and Place
Session 1 (in-person): 16 October 2024, 9.00-16.00 - Trinity Centre for Health Sciences, St. James's Hospital, Dublin 8
Sessions 2-8 (online): November 2024 - May 2025, monthly on the 2nd Wednesday of the month, 17.30-19.30 - online
Session 9 (in person) : 11 June 2025, 9.00-16.00, 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 (CAN BE PAID IN INSTALLMENS OF €1,000 using link below)
Other Consultants: €1,000
Other HSCPs with access to CPD funding: €500
HSCPs without access to CPD funding: €100
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).
Registration for the 2024 intake of this course will end on Friday 11 October at noon. The course will be offered again in 2025-2026
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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