Devon and Cornwall police are hosting two online webinars on 20th March around coping with the effects of Covid-19. One of the experts is our Chief Medical Officer for Policing Professor John Harrison. Devon and Cornwall have opened up these sessions for anyone working in UK policing.
Presented by physio Slafka Scragg - 10am - 11am
Slafka Scragg has been a therapist for over 20 years with a particular focus on both the neuroscience and psychology of how the mind body connection can be translated into tools and techniques and practices to help balance and optimise health and wellbeing.
Whenever we encounter an ongoing health condition it is very easy to get continually hooked into powerfully unhelpful thinking patterns regarding past experiences and future uncertainties. Developing a ‘toolkit’ to work differently with the mind and body has been beneficial for many people with whom she has worked where a health condition has become part of their lives.
In this session she will offer a range of tools and techniques that you can experiment with that may be helpful.
Presented by Professor John Harrison - 12.30pm - 1:30pm
COVID-19 has been a massive global shock and has challenged many assumptions about illness and about ways of working. In this session John will discuss how we have an opportunity to take stock of current knowledge and experience and to try to move forwards.
Professor Harrison was appointed as the National Police Chief Medical Officer, a role based in the College of Policing, in May 2023. He is a member of the team at Oscar Kilo the National Police Wellbeing Service, where he was the Senior Medical Advisor from 2019, and interim CMO from May 2022.
Between 2014 and 2021 he was Chief Medical Officer for Devon and Cornwall police and strategic health and wellbeing lead for the Alliance with Dorset Police. He moved to work in Devon in 2014 having been Clinical Director of Organisational Health and Wellbeing at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (2003 – 2014) and Senior Lecturer in Occupational Medicine / Consultant Occupational Physician at the University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne (1990 – 2003).
He has held positions as Director NHS Plus/advisor to the Health and Work team of the Department of Health and Head of the National School for Occupational Health of England and Wales.