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'If you could see God do one thing in your region, what would that be?' Such was the opening question to 60 nurses, midwives, allied health professionals and medics gathered on Zoom for our first online Catalyst Teams Training on Saturday 5 September. We now have 14 Catalyst Teams...
Twelve people gathering for twelve months to grow in faith as applied to medicine? That's the dream, and for the fifth year our Deep:ER Fellowship programme kicked off in early September. We are joined by a dynamic group of intercalating medical students and F3 doctors. They will be carrying out a...
Have you ever received a difficult complaint and wished there was somebody with whom you could talk and pray about it? Have you faced conflict in the workplace, struggled to cope with anti-social shifts, exams and keeping your friendship network going? Would you like to learn not only how to...
We are living in unprecedented times in Northern Ireland. That is not a reference to the Coronavirus pandemic, but to the abortion law changes which have come into force in Northern Ireland in the last few months. Despite this being a devolved issue, despite a consultation in which 79 per...
Also up, running, and meeting since early September is the third intake to our Global Track. 19 students and newly qualified doctors, nurses and midwives have signed up to the 18-month programme exploring global health and mission. All Nations Christian College were able to host our first event from 11-12 September...
We have been working with Integritas Healthcare for several months on the creation of a year-long Health + Justice training track. As of September, this is now up and running. After an August pre-track reading month, September's theme 'What is Justice?' is being explored by the twelve, hand-picked participants. We...
Dr Mary Baines OBE, q Cambridge and St Thomas' Hospital, 1958, died 21 August 2020. Mary worked for a decade as a GP when, in 1968, Cicely Saunders approached her to be the medical lead for the first-ever home-based palliative care team. Her core focus was always patient-centred compassion, which...
In July, Graham Sopp, our long-serving Head of Central Services, retired. After seven years of faithful service, Graham has been a vital part of the smooth running of the CMF Office and our continued financial stability as an organisation. He is greatly missed. Please pray for him as he starts...
It's an odd time to be planning for the future, when COVID means that organising holidays, weddings or conferences feels like pinning the tail on a moving donkey whilst blindfolded. CMF has completed its current five-year plan, ACTIVE 2020, and along with responding to all the specific challenges of this year,...
When the COVID-19 lockdown caused us to cancel the National Conference at the end of April, we were determined to keep the essence of the conference going in some manner. So it was that we were able to gather over 800 participants from the UK and many nations beyond on...
