Deep End: Workshops

In 2009 a group of GPs working in deprived parts of Glasgow convened a conference and set out to explore how they could work together to address the issues they and their patients faced. As a result, they established the ‘GPs at the Deep End’ program.

This has increased workforce resilience, improved connections with community services, and addressed learning needs relating to deprivation specific problems in primary care.

Since 2019 Hammersmith & Fulham Training Hub have run a version of this program for NW London. Workshops follow a curriculum and explore evidence relating to each topic. They provide a chance for participants to meet, share common challenges and perspectives, and focus on practical solutions that can be implemented at grass roots level.

They cover the following topics:

1. Understanding complexity: life in the 'deep end' (Sep 27th)
2. The power of consultations: the impact of empathy (Oct 11th)
3. Understanding vulnerability: domains of resilience (Oct 25th)
4. Understanding dependence: creation of demand (Nov 15th)
5. Self-care and wellness: rational choice & agency (Nov 29th)
6. Access and candidacy: literacy & digital exclusion (Dec 13th)
7. Promoting continuity: the value of narrative (Jan 10th)
8. Mental health and wellbeing: 'depression' & loneliness (Jan 24th)
9. Advocacy: power, privilege, status & passivity (Feb 7th)
10. Financial wellbeing: social capital & resilience (Feb 28th)
11. Food poverty: the social gradient to diabetes & obesity (Mar 14th)
12. Living in pain: pain as the expression of social distress (Mar 28th)
13. Trauma informed care: cycles of adverse experiences(Apr 25th)
14. End of life care: dying in poverty & compassion (May 9th)
15. Data and research: community participatory research (Jun 6th)
16. Peer support: communities & professional resilience (Jul 4th)

Sessions will all be online and are open to clinical and non-clinical staff from across health, social care and the voluntary sector. You are welcome to drop in for a session or attend the whole course, but please register in advance.

The initiative is being run in parallel with additional training (QSIR) designed to equip people with the skills required to run grass roots change projects. QSIR is also free, open to all, and will run serially over the duration of the Deep End program.

Please contact us at H&F Training Hub if you require further information.