Ruth Chambers DM FRCGP

2004:

1.         Demonstrating your clinical competence as a GP Non-Principal. ‘Changing Times’ national conference, London, March 2004.

2.         Local solutions to improve GP recruitment and retention.  ‘Rising to the Challenge’ conference, Coventry, March 2004.

3.         General practice in the 21^st century - the way ahead is common sense.  The 2004 Gale Memorial Lecture, RCGP Severn Faculty, Taunton, March 2004.

4.         Local solutions to improve GP recruitment and retention.  ‘Expanding the medical workforce in the West Midlands’ conference, Birmingham, May 2004.

2005:

1.         Managing performance across the trust.  Primary Care 2005, Birmingham, May 2005.

2.         Good practice in mentoring.  Mentoring in Medicine Conference, Nottingham, May 2005.

3.         The Disabled Doctors Action Group. Plenary, Medical Research Council’s Health Council meeting ‘Innovations in Education on Disability’, London, October 2005.

4.         Optimising the contribution that patients can make as teachers of health professionals.
Workshop at  ‘Where the patient’s voice in health professional education?’  Vancouver, Canada, November 2005.

5.          Learning from the patient’s voice: involving patients as co-researchers with health professionals. Workshop at  ‘Where the patient’s voice in health professional education?’  Vancouver, Canada, November 2005.

6.         A review of clinical governance in primary care. Workshop, NHS Alliance annual conference, Harrogate, November 2005.

2006:

1.         Getting in balance and keeping stress in check.  BMA Junior Members Forum, Bournemouth, April 2006.

2.         Impact of HCAs in general practice. ‘HCAs - a pivotal role in general practice’ conference, Birmingham, May 2006.

3.         Building in the patient perspective. Clinical governance and the patient-led NHS, Birmingham, October 2006.

2007:

1.         Clinical audit methodology. Clinical Audit 2007, London, February 2007.

2.         Write well: Read effectively.  ‘Medicine & the Arts’, Society of Medical Writers Spring Conference, Norwich, March 2007.

3.         Revalidation of GP’s performance assessment and medicines management.  National Prescribing Centre PCT Prescribing Advisers Conference, Keele, September 2007.

2008:

1.         Managing workplace stress to increase productivity and staff wellbeing.  HSJ World Class Workforce conference, London, January 2008.

2.         Getting ready for revalidation in the KSS Deanery.  Postgraduate Deanery for Kent, Surrey and Sussex Annual General Meeting, Gatwick, February 2008.

PRESENTATIONS AT REGIONAL / LOCAL CONFERENCES

2006:

1.         Involving patients and other lay people in research and education.  Keynote presentation at The Birmingham Conference 2006, Birmingham Medical School, May 2006.

2.         New ways of working - new Workforce Deanery. Keynote talk at the West Midlands Deanery Staffordshire and Shropshire Sub-regional Day, Keele University, November 2006.

3.         Clinical leadership.  Medical Association of Nigerian Specialists and General Practitioners in the British Isles - West Midlands Chapter, Birmingham, November 2006.