TEESSIDE UNIVERSITY

DOCTORATE IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY E-Bulletin – November 2016

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20th Anniversary Celebrations This year the Teesside Doctorate in Clinical Psychology Programme has celebrated its 20th Anniversary. The course was founded in 1996 and in acknowledgement of this and the developments over the years, a commemorative afternoon was held at the Riverside Stadium on 20 April 2016. The event was well attended by NHS stakeholders and academic staff, and was an enjoyable afternoon with time for reflection; opportunities to hear from key note speakers; and excellent trainee experiences. The afternoon was also held in recognition of the impending retirement of Dr Tim Prescott, Director.

Pictured from left: Dr Tim Prescott, retiring Programme Director, Teesside University; Sarah Rose, Year 1 DClinPsy trainee; Tamsin Williams, Year 2 DClinPsy trainee; Alan Bowman, 2015 DClinPsy graduate; Dr Peter Kinderman, Professor of Clinical Psychology and head of the Institute of Psychology at Liverpool University and British Psychological Society President Elect; Tim Cate, Professional Head of Psychology and Allied Health Professions; Dr Angus Bell, Senior Medical Director, Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust; Professor Tony Lavender, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research and Knowledge Exchange), Canterbury Christ Church University; Rod Webster, former Professional Head in Teesside.

Welcome to Ash SummersCourse Director

a former Teesside trainee myself, and being one of the second ever Teesside cohort in 1997, I am passionate about our Programme and its reputation; and our contribution to building and enhancing the capacity of the Clinical Psychology workforce, particularly in the region. I would also like to warmly thank Tim Prescott for all of his hard work in developing the Programme over the last few years. Some of you will know me from when I worked locally until I moved to Australia in 2011. For those of you who don’t, I hope to get out to meet you as soon as I can. I plan to get in touch with local Specialty and Service leads in our partner Trusts over the next few months to ensure that you can hear directly about the Programme and to listen to your feedback. This two way communication is so important for our Programme, and I would like to start a very open dialogue with you about what works well and what does not work well. Clinical Psychology programmes require continual enhancement and improvement; it is a dynamic process for which there is no end point. Consultation and engagement with trainees and our stakeholders are central to this process. We value greatly the input we have from those of you who teach and supervise our trainees; and who contribute to our various working groups. If you would like to contribute further in any way, please do not hesitate to contact myself or one of the team.

New Beginnings

Thank you to everyone for the warm welcome and support you have given me as the new Programme Director. I started in May 2016 and feel a sense of pride and privilege in my new role. As

I am pleased to announce that we have recruited two new members of staff. Dr Alan Bowman is our new Academic Tutor who will be responsible for our first year Psychological Theory and Evidence module. Alan will also be our 2

Exams Officer and will be working with Steven Muncer and Chris Colbourn to develop and enhance our research capacity. One of our goals is to further increase our publication output. We have made positive steps in this regard over the last few years and I am sure that this will further improve.

And lastly, I am sure you will join me in wishing our exiting third years every success. All of them have secured employment and there is a vast range of specialisms represented. Most of them will be contributing to services locally. Well done to you all. New Challenges

Dr Sarah-Craven Staines is our new Academic Tutor (Recruitment and Marketing). A central part of Sarah’s portfolio is our recruitment process. Sarah also has responsibility for our first year Developing Clinical Skills module. I am very pleased to welcome both Alan and Sarah to the team. They have already been working extremely hard and have made huge contributions to the Programme in a very short amount of time.

When I look back over the past few months in the role, a major theme has been approval and accreditation. I had to quickly hit the ground running with our Periodic Review taking place during the third week of my new role. This event formed part of the six yearly Teesside University internal approval cycle. I am pleased to report that this event was successful, with our Programme being complemented on the following: 

As those of you who have started teaching for us this academic year will know, we have been allocated a new dedicated teaching room on the second floor of Centuria South. This is a significantly larger room and provides a much improved space for teaching and learning. The Programme team will also be moving, to alternative accommodation within the building. Our new offices will be in the centre of Centuria South and we hope this will mean that those coming to visit will have more contact with us. The proposed date for the move is in midDecember 2016 and you will receive a further update when it is complete. We have been joined by our new cohort of 14, who come from a variety of clinical and research backgrounds. They have settled in extremely well and it is wonderful to see their enthusiasm and passion for the profession.

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Strong performance with high completion and employability of trainees. Good reputation for partnership working with the NHS. Detailed practice handbook, informative for all stakeholders. Strong personal and professional development strand.

There have been some changes to some of our modules, particularly around assessments; and ensuring that we are meeting the new HCPC and BPS criteria. Thank you to all of you who were involved in the consultation process and for your feedback. More recently, the BPS has approved our revised Action Plan which detailed how we will meet the new accreditation criteria, particularly around service user and carer involvement; in vivo assessment and therapy competencies. As Angela Prout details later in this bulletin, the Clinical Tutor 3

Team have been working hard to get ready to provide the mechanisms for assessment of therapy competencies on placement. Raymond Chadwick has been leading on work, with module leaders and external clinicians; around our curriculum across specialism and models to ensure that we address therapy competencies in teaching. Our stakeholders inform us that they value the eclecticism in Teesside’s approach to training. We will therefore be retaining other therapy teaching (in addition to CBT) and ensuring that trainees have a degree of choice of therapy specialism as they progress through their training. We have also been successful in achieving HCPC re-approval. I would like to sincerely thank the whole Programme team as well as our trainees and stakeholders for their contributions to these achievements. Finally, we have confirmed dates for our BPS Accreditation in Partnership visit on 7 and 8 June 2017. The BPS will expect to meet with trainees, service user and carer representatives, clinical supervisors, university senior management, the Programme team, and commissioners. We will be in touch regarding representation at this event, but in the meantime do please put this into your diaries. Looking outwards we are in undoubtedly challenging times. The impact of austerity on our NHS and social services continues to be felt. In addition, whilst there appears to be more certainty around salary funding for a 2017 intake, the picture beyond this remains unclear. As I stated in a recent consultation response to the proposed changes in funding of healthcare education; the impact of changes to the funding of Clinical Psychology would be particularly severe in the North East of

England. Our Programme was developed 20 years ago in direct response to the difficulties in recruiting and retaining Clinical Psychologists to work in the local area. The Programme has been extremely successful in building the capacity of the local Clinical Psychology workforce. We pride ourselves on attracting local applicants as well as those who reside further afield, and retaining them within the area on qualification. Both income and capital wealth are lower in our region which impacts on people’s capacity to self-fund their training. We await further details regarding how post-2017 funding for Clinical Psychology training might look. As Tim Prescott said in the last EBulletin, our Programme is central to the development and continuing success of Clinical Psychology in and around Teesside. I know that you will help me to look after it.

Programme Updates: Hello to Sarah Craven-Staines: Sarah started post in July 2016 as Academic Tutor (Recruitment and Marketing), following Ash leaving the post as she took up position as Director of the course. Sarah will also be module leader for the first year Developing Clinical Skills – Working with Individuals module. Sarah qualified herself from the Teesside Doctorate in Clinical Psychology course in 2007. Since this time she has taken great pleasure in working within the Mental Health Services for Older People (MHSOP) Psychology Specialty; initially in Durham for a year at the Bowes Lyon Unit and latterly for eight years based at Stockton Community Mental Health Team (CMHT). Throughout this time,

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Sarah has taken a great interest in her therapeutic work, going onto complete a post graduate diploma in Cognitive Analytic Therapy at Sheffield Hallam University in 2012. Being the only Accredited CAT Practitioner in Teesside MHSOP Services, Sarah has worked over the last four years across the teams to provide an equity of access to CAT through offering CAT groups; a Teeswide CAT clinic and CAT reformulation meetings. This work has complimented her routine commitments within the Stockton CMHT. Previously, Sarah was involved in the marketing of Clinical Psychology within older peoples’ services, developing a psychology profile which was distributed to GPs, NHS stakeholders and commissioners. She has maintained an avid interest in the teaching and training of others, which has led to her involvement in a number of MHSOP psychology initiatives in training staff in the use of the ACE III and An Introduction to CBT formulation; as well as her continued commitment to the doctoral course in routinely providing teaching sessions for trainees. Over the last few years, Sarah has developed her leadership role within Stockton CMHT, which has led to the development of both huddles and a senior management hub within the team as part of the purposeful and productive team developments.

Message from Sarah: As I move through the transitional process from leaving MHSOP and joining the university, it has given me a lot of time to reflect upon endings, change and new adventures. Working as a Clinical Psychologist in older peoples’ services has been the core of my professional identity and so it has been with great sadness that I have said my goodbyes to the specialty and service and great colleagues after

having worked in the area for 9 fulfilling years. I am now delighted to be joining the doctorate course in the role of Academic Tutor (Recruitment and Marketing). Having thoroughly enjoyed my training at Teesside some years ago and having always had an interest in academia; working for the course has been an aspiration of mine for a long time now. Therefore to now be here and in post feels surreal, yet very exciting! I am also excited to be shortly starting in my new clinical role as Clinical Psychologist for the Employment Psychology Service. I am struck by the hard work and dedication my fellow colleagues provide on the course, and have felt genuinely welcomed into the team. We have an excellent programme here on Teesside, which could not be delivered without the constant support and commitment of our external clinicians. I am looking forward to working with you all over the forthcoming months. Hello to Alan Bowman: Alan is a recent addition to the team (September 2016) and will be working as Academic Tutor (Research). Alongside Steven Muncer and Chris Colbourn, Alan will be contributing to the research strand of the course, delivering teaching on research methods, supervising doctoral theses, and is also module leader for the Year 1 Psychological Theory and Evidence module. A recent Teesside graduate himself (Class of 2015), Alan moved into a post in chronic pain management upon qualifying, and now works clinically in a Specialist Palliative Care Service alongside his academic role. He has broad interests in clinical health psychology and neuropsychology, and 5

is particularly interested in working psychologically within medical settings for the benefit of both patients and staff. Since qualifying Alan has undertaken further CPD training in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), assessment of trauma, and psychobehavioural interventions for sleep disorders. Alan is a keen researcher and prior to completing his doctorate, has undertaken both undergraduate and postgraduate study at Durham University, where he conducted research into colour-grapheme synaesthesia, spatial learning in humans, and mechanisms of learning and attention in rodents. Message from Alan: In the face of increased caseloads, reduced budgets, and ever-tighter performance targets, it is becoming an increasing challenge to adopt the “Scientist-Practitioner” role that we as a profession espouse. Despite these challenges, I strongly believe that there has never been a greater need than now to adopt this role. The way we provide services to people in need is constantly being challenged and transformed. For these changes to be meaningful, informed, and genuinely helpful, we must turn to clinical science. I propose that this is a necessity, not a luxury. I am delighted to become a member of the Programme, and look forward to working with both trainees and local clinicians to develop thorough and impactful research projects. I recall my first encounters with research design and analysis as daunting, but over time have learned that it can be an extremely rewarding process that leaves you with a very useful and marketable set of skills in any workplace. I look forward to working with you all over the coming

months. Whether you are a trainee contemplating the best way to analyse your data, or a clinician itching to pursue a research interest, I’d be happy to think it through with you: [email protected]

Goodbye to Sarah Greenwell: Sarah joined the course as Assistant Psychologist in 2015, and has worked hard throughout her months within post to provide support to the programme team, complete research and service audits. She has recently gained a post as Assistant Psychologist in IAPT, Newcastle. We wish her well for her future career.

Clinical Practice Update: As I hope you will be aware, the clinical practice team have been making significant changes to the Clinical Practice strand in fulfilment of the BPS ‘Standards for the Accreditation of Doctoral Programmes in Clinical Psychology’ (October 2015). http://www.bps.org.uk/system /files/Public%20files/PaCT/cli nical_accreditation_2015_we b.pdf Material has been sent to professional heads in TEWV but we have also had a recent Clinical Practice Working Group (6 October 2016), which was very well attended. All of the changes were discussed but any one of the clinical practice team are happy to attend service / locality meetings to discuss the changes in detail – especially if there are services who have not had access to the information e.g. external to TEWV and South Tees.

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Briefly we are piloting some document and process changes with our current first years (2016 cohort). These changes are to ‘The observation and Recording on Placement Guidance’ and the trainee logbooks which will now be in 2 parts - the first section, a diary section in which all activity during practice is listed, remains largely unchanged apart from the addition of a use of psychometrics recording section; the new second section of the logbook is a logbook of therapeutic competencies where model specific skills are tracked cumulatively across placements. Looking to the future In 2017 we will be organising a series of workshops addressing supervisors’ requirements to assess therapeutic competencies, starting with CBT (Dates TBC). We are looking to change how 3rd year placements are organised and hope to consult on any changes proposed in 2017. Finally we have moved to e-portfolio https://sohsc-portfolio.tees.ac.uk/. From this academic year (2016/2017) all clinical practice submissions will be electronic via this system. Please do not hesitate to contact any one of the team if you have any comments or queries (details below): Dr Angela Prout, Lead Clinical Tutor Email [email protected] Dr Alex Shaw, Clinical Tutor Email [email protected] Dr Richard House, Clinical Tutor Email [email protected]

A note of congratulations! The programme would also like to congratulate Angela, Richard and Alex in successfully completing their Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. They are all now Fellows of the Higher Education Academy.

Academic Working Group Update: The main points of interest from the April and October 2016 meetings of the Academic Working Group are as follows: The research panels were moved to early July for the first time this year. This has meant that the majority of the trainees had a supervisory team in place at the end of the first year. Raymond Chadwick introduced the idea that a curriculum review was needed for the course to try to deal with issues such as overlap and duplication, lack of coordination between years and or sessions, match of teaching to placement, concern about out of date teaching, and the need for more teaching on clinical areas and approaches in the first year. Smaller working groups with academic staff and field co-ordinators have now begun to take place to begin this review and so far areas including neuropsychology, adult mental health, child and adolescent mental health and older adults have been reviewed. Further reviews of learning disability and health teaching will take place in the near future. Lastly the trainees asked the team to look at the teaching on IRAS and this 7

has been changed for next year to reflect some of their comments.

For any further information please contact:

It should also be noted that Raymond Chadwick has now assumed the role of the Chair of the Academic Working Group and Alan Bowman will become secretary at the same time.

Dr Sarah Craven-Staines, Academic Tutor [email protected]

Please contact: Steven Muncer, Research Tutor [email protected] Raymond Chadwick, PPD Tutor [email protected] if you have any queries about the above.

Academic Tutor (Recruitment and Marketing) Update: The interviews this year went smoothly, with the new venue, the Curve, working well. This is a new building in the centre of the campus, and provides an excellent space and advertisement for the university and its facilities. The interviews took place over five consecutive days, which allowed for more breaks. Feedback from applicants regarding their interview experience was overwhelmingly positive, and we were assisted as usual with excellent support from Year 1 and 2 trainees. We are also very fortunate to have some fantastic service user representatives who assist us with our interviews – thank you to them for their invaluable contributions to the process. We received 282 applications for the 2016 intake. This represents an increase of 19 applicants compared to 2015. Of these, we interviewed 51 candidates for our 14 places. All places were filled.

2016 Trainee Research Presentations: The annual conference of third year thesis presentations was held on 2 June 2016. The trainees presented a variety of research topics and methods. The presentations were well received by delegates who showed great interest in the research areas. The titles of the presentations delivered were as follows: 

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“It was almost like an awakening”. An interpretative phenomenological analysis of service-users’ and carers’ lived experiences of team psychological formulation. Presented by: Abi Tarran- Jones The impact on family functioning, parenting and parent-child relationships when a child is given a rare genetic diagnosis. Presented by: Joanne Harrison Distress Associated with Visual Hallucinations in the Psychosis Spectrum & Eye Disease: What are the Contributing Factors? Presented by: Deborah Hannant “It’s good, they’re like me; the same but different.” An interpretive phenomenological analysis of the identities of women with Down’s Syndrome. Presented by: Emma Groves Maternal stress in Autism Spectrum Disorder: the role of cognitive ability, symptom severity and associated behaviour. Presented by: Jennifer Howarth A Thematic Analysis of Mental Health Nurses Views on Approaches to Working with Voice Hearing. Presented by: Laura Cochrane

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Does understanding of Compassionate care differ in accordance with years of experience in Nurses. Presented by: Laura Rosby It’s not dementia: the experience of receiving a diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Presented by: Neil Palmer How do we get our daughter back? An exploration of parents’ perspectives of recovery from Anorexia Nervosa. Presented by: Rachel Denton The Lived Experience of Social Media by Young People who Self Harm. Presented by: Rob Flynn The Lived Experience of Delivering a Lean Approach in a Healthcare Setting. Presented by: Samantha Fish Patterns of emotional response in parents when a diagnosis of congenital heart disease is made. Presented by: Sally Robinson Staff’s Lived Experience of compassion in secondary care mental health teams for people with psychosis. Presented by: Stuart Hughes

Congratulations to all of the third year trainees in completing such informative research projects and good luck to those in pursuing publications!

Hayley Blyth Claire Dickinson Nicholas Hudson Gemma Johnson Steven MacDonald Megan Middlemiss Rebecca Tinkler

We say goodbye to our 2013 cohort and wish them luck in their future careers as clinical psychologists! Information regarding their job news is posted below.

Trainee Job News: Deborah Hannant

Applied Psychologist, Mental Health Services for Older People – Darlington & Easington, Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Trust

Abigail TarranJones

Specialist Clinical Psychologist, Mental Health Services for Older People – Stockton, Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Trust

Rob Flynn

Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services – North Durham, Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Trust

Rachel Denton Laura Rosby

Evergreen Ward, Adolescents with Eating Disorders Clinical Psychologist in Redburn Unit, Ferndene, Prudhoe, Newcastle, Tyne and Wear Trust Clinical Psychologist in the Neurodevelopmental team within Croydon CAMHS CAMHS Eating Disorder Outpatient Service, West Lane CAMHS, Clinical psychologist, Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Trust EIP, Clinical Psychologist, York

If anyone would like further information, or to give feedback on the day, please contact: Chris Colbourn, Research Director: [email protected]

Welcome to our new cohort and goodbye to those leaving us: We are welcoming our new cohort of 14 trainees to the programme in October 2016. Their names are as follows:

Kelly Cocallis Jasmine Dunn Robin Hunt Jennifer Jones Suzanne McGarva Jennifer Mrozik Nicola Wass

Neil Palmer Samantha Fish

Laura Cochrane

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Jenny Howarth

Emma Groves

Gayle Watts

Helen Gould Julie Moignard Sally Robinson Stuart Hughes

Lois Hurley

Joanne Harrison

Clinical Psychologist, split post CYP Neurodevelopmental Team & Paediatric Liaison Service, Lewisham, London and the CUES-ED project, Michael Rutter Centre, Maudsley Hospital, London. Clinical Psychologist Forensic Learning Disability service, Roseberry Park, Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust Clinical Psychologist Northumberland Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation TrustMemory Protection Service Clinical Psychologist – States of Jersey, Health and Social Services, Neuropsychology Clinical Psychologist – Health and Social Services Jersey, Neuropsychology Clinical Psychologist, Northumbria Healthcare Trust, Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychologist – Northumberland Tyne and Wear Trust, Adult Mental Health Inpatient Services Clinical Psychologist, Adult Mental Health, Northumberland Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust Clinical Psychologist, CAMHS, Stockton-on-Tees, Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Trust

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Palmer, N. It's not dementia: the experience of receiving a diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment. July 2016, presentation at FPOP Annual Conference, Oxford. Williams, T. & Craven-Staines, S. Benefits of CAT for people aged over 65. July 2016, presentation at National Annual Association for Cognitive Analytic Therapy Conference, Exeter.

Programme Team Publications and Presentations: Anderson, N., Howey, L., Colbourn, C., & Davis, C. (2016). How CAMHS clinicians make sense of missed appointments: An interpretative phenomenological analysis. Clinical Psychology Forum, 284, 18-22. Bass, M., Dawkin, M., Muncer, S., Vigurs, S. & Bostock, J. (2016). Validation of Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale (WEMWBS) in a population of people using Secondary Care Mental Health Services, Journal of Mental Health. Early Online, 17.DOI:10.3109/09638237.2015.11244 01

Congratulations! We would also like congratulate Sally Robinson who was awarded the trainee prize this year; based upon overall clinical, academic and research performance.

Bowman, A.R., Auld, L., & Martin, C. (2016). Capturing complexity: The development of a brief outcome measure for a clinical psychology service for older adults. Clinical Psychology Forum, 281, 18-22.

Trainee Research Dissemination:  Flynn, R. What is the lived experience of using Social Media by Young People who Self-Harm? October 2016, presentation at CYP faculty of BPS annual conference, Sheffield.

Campbell. A.C., Coombes, C., David, R., Opre, A., Grayson, L., & Muncer, S. (2016). Sex differences are not attenuated by a sex-invariant measure of fear: The situated fear questionnaire. Personality and Individual Differences, 97, 210-219. dx.doi.org:10.101016/j.paid.2016.03.0 49 10

samples. Australasian Psychiatry, DOI: 10.1177/1039856216647254.

Chadwick, R., Muncer, S., Hannon, B., Goodrich, J. & Cornwell, J. (2016). Support for compassionate care: Quantitative and qualitative evaluation of Schwartz Center Rounds in an acute general hospital. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine Open, DOI: 10.1177/2054270416648043

Muncer, S.J. & Speak, B. (2016). Mokken scale analysis and confirmatory factor analysis of the Health of the Nation Outcome Scales. Personality and Individual Differences, 94,272,276.doi:10.1016/j.paid.2016.01 .051.

Craven-Staines, S. & Williams, T. (Accepted for publication). Resilience in the face of change’ – 23rd National ACAT conference, the benefits of working with over 65s – our reflections on why the evidence base is so limited. Reformulation.

Williams, T. & Craven-Staines, S. (Accepted for publication). Benefits of CAT for people aged over 65. International Journal of ACAT. Blakelock, D, J., Chen, M. A. & Prescott, T. (2016). Psychological Distress in Elite Adolescent Soccer Players Following Deselection. Journal of Clinical Sport Psychology, 10, 59 -77.

Muncer, S.J., Bass, M., & Dawkin, M. (2016). Mokken analysis of the Health of the Nation Outcome Scales in acute inpatient and community

Events for your diary in 2016- 2017: Day Thursday

Date 24 November 2016 February 2017

Time 9.30am11.30am

Event Programme Board

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March 2017

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9 January 2017 3-7 April 2017 27 April 2017 27 April 2017

3pm – 5pm All Day

Teesside Accredited Supervisor Training (TAST) Teesside Accredited Supervisor Training (TAST) Recruitment & Marketing Working Group DClinPsy Interviews

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Monday Thursday Thursday

Wednesday 7 and 8 - Thursday June 2017 29 June Thursday

9.30am 11am 11.15am – 12.30pm All Day All Day

Venue Olympia Building OLY2.01 TBC

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HS3.14 The Curve

Clinical Practice Working Group Academic Working Group

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BPS Accreditation in Partnership visit Research Conference

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Please Contact us if you require any information about the above: Ash – Steven Chris Angela – Richard -

[email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Raymond [email protected] Alex [email protected] Lisa – [email protected] Sarah – [email protected] Alan [email protected]

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