NSUE Inaugural Conference

 24 January 2009 Cork

 

09.00               Registration

09.30               Opening :

Tony Leahy, HSE Mental Health Specialist

09.40   Opening Address : John Moloney, T.D., Minister of State @ Dept of Health and Children

10.00   Keynote Speech: “The role of the Office for Disability and Mental Health”

Bairbre Nic Aongusa, Director, Office of Mental Health and Disability, Dept. of Health and Children

10.45                              ‘The Task Ahead’,

John Redican, National Executive Officer NSUE  &  Jennifer Kelly, Chairman, NSUE

11.00               Coffee

11.30        ‘Every Mother’s Son’,Tony Blackmore

12.00   Panel session Questions & Answers

 12.45               Lunch

 14.00  ‘Capturing the Customer Voice’

Patricia Gilheaney, Director of Standards & Quality Assurance, Mental Health Commission

14.30               Personal Perspectives,

Six short presentations by various people and groups who are experts by experience

15.15                              Panel Session, Q&A

 

16.00    Closing Remarks, member of NSUE