Generosity – A Key Value in Healthcare. How do we bring it to life?

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October 17, 2024

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October 17, 2024 2:30 pm

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Valuesthon 2024

‘Overwhelm’ has become the norm in everyday life for many of us, as structures of experience that were once predictable and reliable have become volatile and incoherent. Healthcare, worldwide, can be described as in a state of ‘crisis ordinariness’. Systems are teetering, inducing constant anxiety for those expected to deliver services as well as those who rely on healthcare systems to navigate physical and mental threats to wellbeing.

This interactive webinar will explore the value of generosity as an optimistic response to permacrisis. How does generosity constitute, in the words of cultural theorist Lauren Berlant, ‘a collectively invested form of life’? What are the limits of generosity as an ethical action? How might acts of generosity affirm or deny modes of interpersonal relationships in professional contexts?

This interactive webinar will explore generosity as a social value in healthcare. We will explore generosity as a sustaining value, capable of sustaining interpersonal interactions as enactments of relationships of care in these precarious times.

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The Human Values in Healthcare Forum

Is a small but growing registered charity whose key aim is to humanise health and social care. We believe that human values such as compassion, wisdom, integrity, and justice are of pivotal importance in health and social care and more generally for humanity’s future. We will act as a learning organisation and community of practice, inviting a broad spectrum of individuals and groups who are willing to engage in creative dialogue, shared problem solving and relevant activities. We will collaborate, support, and engage with those who broadly share our aims and values.

Who is this event for?
All those working in primary care, palliative care, public health, community health, carers, healthcare policy makers and managers, social enterprises, community interest groups, charities and interested members of the public. We look forward to welcoming you!

Contact: info@humanvaluesforum.com

Speakers

**Dr Giskin Day** is a principal teaching fellow in the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College London where she is course lead for an intercalated BSc in Humanities, Philosophy and Law. She recently completed a PhD thesis on the value of gratitude in healthcare. Giskin has a long-standing interest in social emotions and how they are expressed and received for public good.

**Dr Paquita de Zulueta** worked for 38 years until 2021 as a London-based GP and has a special interest in mental health, migrant health, compassionate leadership in healthcare, clinical ethics and professional wellbeing and development. She is passionate about providing fair, compassionate, holistic, and inclusive healthcare. Paquita is honorary senior lecturer at Imperial College London, an integrative cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) therapist, and a qualified coach and mentor. She worked for three months as GP lead for the NHS Grenfell Outreach Team following the disaster in 2017 and for ten years as a clinical volunteer for Doctors of the World’s London Clinic.

Paquita runs seminars and workshops on compassion and appreciative inquiry in healthcare, as well as seminars, courses and lectures on clinical ethics in the UK and Hong Kong. She is a Schwartz Round facilitator at Imperial College and was selected for the Point of Care Foundation Shining Star Award in 2021. She has written several articles and book chapters on clinical ethics and compassion in healthcare. Paquita is Chair of the Human Values in Healthcare Forum.

**Dr Jens Foell** trained in Germany in Rehabilitation Medicine with special focus on musculoskeletal disability. He moved to the UK and retrained as GP. He worked in de-industrialised areas of NW and NE England, in an inner-city practice and as academic GP in London. His research interests are management of pain, mental health problems and social issues in community settings with focus on pain communication. Work in General Practice continues alongside educational work as Programme Director for GP Training, Mental Health Act assessments and GP appraisals. His book “Fighting for the Soul of General Practice – the Algorithm will see you now” (co-authored with Rupal Shah) was published in January 2024.

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