We have some great news: we’re coming back face to face!
The Kempsey & Macleay Clinical Society is your chance to embed yourself in your local community of health practitioners. It’s an opportunity to make friends, network, get to know your referrals, learn new information, and have fun in a collaborative, knowledge-sharing space.
On Wednesday 24 November, the Kempsey & Macleay Clinical Society will meet at The Garden Bar and Kitchen in Frederickton for an evening to reflect on the past year, come together and gain some education.
Our guest speakers will be discussing the non-pharmacological strategies available to patients with persistent pain. We’ll help you to identify local referral pathways for chronic pain in the Port Macquarie region and learn psychologically-informed approaches when managing patients with persistent pain.
Increase your knowledge of why pain exists and the importance of interdisciplinary care. Get to know current online and accessible chronic pain initiatives and resources relevant to the biopsychosocial aspects of chronic pain management.
Following some dinner, we’ll talk to you about the Kempsey and Macleay CPD needs assessment and share with you Healthy North Coast’s draft 2022 CPD calendar. This will be a chance for you to let us know what’s missing and which CPD topics and learning objectives are important for your personal education.
Kempsey & Macleay Clinical Society
Wednesday 24 November
6:00 pm – 8:30 pm
The Garden Bar and Kitchen, Frederickton
What’s included: educational presentation, canapes and a two-course dinner.
Presenters:
Dr David Skalicky, Visiting Rehabilitation Physician, Durri Aboriginal Medical Service
Dylan Chrimes, Physiotherapist, Keystone Health
Dr Anthony Richardson, Psychiatrist with a specialty in somatic psychotherapy and pain management
About our guest speakers
Dr David Skalicky is an experienced consultant physician in rehabilitation medicine and a clinical leader and medical educator. Dr Skalicky consults patients for chronic pain and musculoskeletal conditions and orthopaedic, neurological and geriatric rehabilitation. He provides telehealth consultations and is the visiting rehabilitation physician to the Durri Aboriginal Medical Service, supported by the NSW Rural Doctors Network.
Dylan Chrimes is a physiotherapist at Keystone Health, one of the largest and most progressive allied health companies on the Mid North Coast. His mission is to enrich health and wellbeing with evidence-based practice and customer-focused treatment.
Dr Anthony Richardson is a psychiatrist with a specialty in somatic psychotherapy and pain management. He started his professional career as a GP in the western suburbs of Sydney but was soon training as a psychotherapist before pursuing his interest in somatic and body-oriented techniques for people with medical issues.
Dr Richardson consults as a psychiatrist in Sydney’s St Vincent’s Hospital Chronic Pain Clinic and is an Associate Professor in psychiatry at Notre Dame University. He uses his knowledge of Tibetan Buddhist philosophy and his somatic understanding coupled with his medical training to teach an understanding of the psychological issues in illness, and the linkage between mental illness and physical symptoms.
Who’s invited?
The Kempsey & Macleay Clinical Society is all about fostering integration.
With this in mind, all primary health care professionals working in the Kempsey and Macleay regions (as well as the surrounds) are encouraged to come along. We’d love to see a good mix of GPs, GP registrars, practice managers, nurses and staff, allied health, Aboriginal health workers and service coordinators in attendance.
Numbers will be limited in line with COVID safety, so please register early to reserve your place.
In the event that we need to cancel the face-to-face event, we will instead join online for a shorter session and all those registered will receive a free gift.
Help us spread the word
To help us grow the Kempsey & Macleay Clinical Society, we need your help. Please download the flyer for this event and share it with your colleagues. Encourage them to come along and if they can’t make it, tell them to sign up for the Kempsey & Macleay Clinical Society to be notified of future events.
COVID safety
Healthy North Coast takes it obligations for your safety seriously. We advise that the venue where the event is to be held is COVID-safe and that a COVID safety plan has been developed and registered with the NSW Government.
Numbers will be restricted, so reserve your place early.
If you are sick or experiencing the mildest of symptoms, please do not attend.
All attendees must comply with the NSW Government order (effective 11 October 2021) stating that no unvaccinated person (over the age of 16) is allowed into hospitality premises.