ACGP Conference 2025
‘Hope Bearers’: Primary Healthcare Chaplaincy responding to mental health and spiritual needs
We were delighted to announce our ACGP conference at the start of 2025. The conference presented a significant opportunity to increase awareness of the value and effectiveness of Primary Healthcare Chaplaincy. We aimed to empower those interested in offering a Primary Healthcare Chaplaincy service and further equip those already delivering it.
The conference was aimed at anyone keen to learn about the benefits of Primary Healthcare Chaplaincy, including current and prospective Primary Healthcare Chaplains, health service commissioners, GPs, charitable funders and representatives of faith groups seeking to support wellbeing within their communities.
Event Details
Date: Friday 10th January 2025
Venue: Teaching and Learning Hub, University of Birmingham, B15 2SB
Time: 9:15am – 5:30pm (Registration from 8:30 – 9:15am)
Video Presentations
To view videos of the presentations given at this conference, you can visit our YouTube channel:
Seminars
The following seminars were presented at the conference:
- Social Prescribing and Primary Healthcare Chaplaincy — led by Dr David Smart, exploring social prescribing and the NASP definition, the journey from illness through to health, and the place of faith communities amongst social prescribing pathways.
- Faith Communities and Primary Healthcare Chaplaincy — an opportunity to consider how the spiritual and pastoral care that exists within faith and community groups can be developed and connected with primary healthcare services.
- The interface between Primary Healthcare Chaplaincy and Holistic CBT, active listening and coaching — considering how the richness of other therapeutic interventions facilitates the distinctiveness of spiritual care offered in chaplaincy.
- Experience in the provision of Primary Healthcare Chaplaincy — an interactive session led by those with experience of setting up and managing primary healthcare chaplaincy services in the NHS, addressing questions about funding, provision, management and supervision.
- Public Health, Community Engagement and Primary Healthcare Chaplaincy — giving primary care Chaplains an opportunity to consider their own development needs and how to create a portfolio of continuing professional development.
- Maintaining excellence in Primary Healthcare Chaplaincy — led by a Public Health director, illustrating how community services can be developed and connected with primary healthcare and Primary Healthcare Chaplaincy.
Past Conferences
ACGP Conference 2021
Our 2021 conference ‘The Way Forward: A Better Story in Whole Person Healthcare’ took place in January 2021. Please find links to the presentations from this conference on our Resources page.