Events

FOR SOM MEMBERS ONLY £21

We have secured a special visit to Quarry Bank Mill in Cheshire on Wed 23rd April 2025.

You will arrive by 1.45pm at Visitor Reception and The Apprentice House tour begins at 2pm and takes around 45 minutes. After teas and coffee in the shop, the guided mill tour starts at approx. 3.30pm and takes around an hour.
You are then free to wander around until the property closes at 5pm.

Spaces are limited to 14 people on a first come, first served basis.

You can find out more online here https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/cheshire-greater-manchester/quarry-bank

SOM Members ONLY. If you are not a member, please join here www.som.org.uk

Date: Friday 25th April 9am-5pm (registration from 8.30am)

Venue: Aviator Hotel Hampshire, 55 Farnborough Road, Farnborough GU14 6EL

Fee: £75 for SOM members; £85 for non-SOM members. In person attendance only

6 CPD Hours

This will be a full day face to face meeting for SOM and non-SOM members. The meeting will be followed by the AGM for Central Southern SOM members. Lunch and refreshments will be provided.

Topics and speakers:

- A beginner’s guide to IHR - Dr Mark Groom, Consultant Occupational Physician

- Life on the ocean wave…. Is different to being ashore - Dr Sue Stannard, Chief Medical Adviser

- When things go wrong at sea - The TMAS service - Dr Katharine Hartington, Consultant Emergency Medicine

- Clinical Negligence and Occupational Health Practice - Dr Chandrakant Mutalik, Consultant Occupational Physician

- Update on SOM activities - Nick Pahl, CEO, Society of Occupational Medicine

- Shifting Pain into Possibility: Practical insights for occupational health clinicians on guiding people with chronic pain towards lasting change - Richmond Stace, Pain Specialist | The Pain Coach

- Pushing Tin; the medical sequalae - Dr John Clarke, Consultant in Occupational and Aviation Medicine

View programme here.

Please note your membership discount will automatically be applied when you log in to the SOM website. Please log in before registering.

This event is sponsored by Greys Specialist Recruitment

FREE for ALL (please log in on the SOM website first). 

Summary of webinar: 
An introduction to social prescribing 
This session will set the scene of social prescribing through looking at the policy context and current landscape of provision across England. We will explore the function that social prescribing can provide in both clinical and community settings as well as explain the role of a Social Prescribing Link Worker (SPLW). 
Social prescribing is a core component of personalised care, and can help patients to improve their health, wellbeing and social welfare by connecting them to non-clinical support and services within the community.
Attendees will leave with an increase understanding of social prescribing within clinical and community settings, the role of a Social Prescribing Link Worker (SPLW) and an increased understanding of the growing evidence base to support the initiative. 

Presenter Bio: 
Monica Boulton is the Healthcare Integration Lead for the National Academy for Social Prescribing and has been involved in Social Prescribing for nearly 10 years, initially as a Social Prescribing Link Worker and then moving into both strategic planning and delivery of social prescribing initiatives on both a local and national scale. Monica now leads NASPs Social Prescribing Workforce programme , and co-leads NASP’s clinical engagement work. Monica has a true sense for the difference Social Prescribing can make not only to people’s lives but to the health system and communities too. Monica is passionate about community development, and creative health and has extensive experience in the voluntary sector alongside providing some Social Prescribing System consultancy work. 
 

Chair: Dr Lara Shemtob

FREE for ALL. You will then be sent the joining link.

SPONSORED BY ORCHID LIVE.COM

FREE for SOM Members (please log in on the SOM website first). 

Overview:

Be MSK Aware

Musculoskeletal (MSK) problems such as back pain, arthritis, sprains and strains are the most common problem in the workplace and are one of the commonest causes of absence from work.  A musculoskeletal (MSK) healthy workplace enables people to be healthy, fit and stay in work. 
 
Are you MSK Aware? Join the webinar and learn about key actions you can take to support high quality MSK health for everyone in the workplace by promoting MSK health, preventing MSK problems arising in the workplace and supporting those with MSK problems to stay in work. Be MSK Aware, be proactive, take a strategic approach that is effective and meaningful, which builds on your legal duties to create a MSK healthy workplace. 
 

Speaker:

Professor Anthony D Woolf, FRCP
Consultant Rheumatologist
Chair, Cornwall Arthritis Trust
Director, MSK Aware CIC
Co-Chair, Global Alliance for Musculoskeletal Health (G-MUSC)

Professor Anthony Woolf is a consultant rheumatologist previously at Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro, UK.  He has held honorary chairs in Rheumatology at the University of Exeter Medical School, Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry, and visiting Professor in Musculoskeletal Science, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Sweden.  He is co-chair of the Global Alliance for Musculoskeletal Health (G-MUSC).

His work focuses on influencing policy and practice nationally and internationally providing the evidence for gaining priority and the tools to implement change to benefit individuals through prevention and control of musculoskeletal conditions.  In particular he focuses on what we need to do through the lifecourse to support musculoskeletal health to enable us to maintain our physical capacity, remain in the labour market and for healthy productive ageing.

He works with WHO, EU and in the UK with NHS England, OHID/Public Health England and Department of Work and Pensions to ensure musculoskeletal health is in all policies – health, social and employment.  
 

FREE for SOM Members (please log in on the SOM website). You will then be sent the join link.

We'd like to thank our sponsor - Orchid Live. Orchid Live is specialist occupational health software used by a number of SOM members to run every aspect of their occupational health operations. They hold healthcare records for over 1 million UK workers and work with both in-house OH teams and OH providers. You can find out more at OrchidLive.com