Understanding and delivering trauma informed care
This webinar will explore the topic of trauma informed care and how it can be applied to the context of the accident and emergency department.
Speakers
Trauma-informed care – sometimes termed practice - is a whole system approach that recognises, understands and responds to both the prevalence and impact of trauma (and adversity) in a way that seeks to cause no further harm.
This webinar will explore the topic of trauma informed care and how it can be applied to the context of the accident and emergency department with a focus on the care and treatment received by people with mental health needs.
You will hear from speakers including from Sussex Health and Care who have developed a Trauma Informed Framework in July 2025; the NHS Race and Health Observatory to share information from their recently launched Trauma-informed care and racialised communities report and Mark Buchanan, Emergency Medicine Consultant at Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust on the application of trauma informed care in specific emergency department settings.
This webinar forms part of our Interface Improvement Programme, which is being jointly delivered by the NHS Confederation and NHS England's Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) Team.
Webinar aims:
- Build a shared understanding of what trauma informed care is.
- Provide practical examples and ideas of how trauma informed care and practices can be applied in the emergency department for people with mental health needs.
- Consider how trauma can affect certain groups and individuals, and how trauma informed practice can help mitigate this with a specific focus on race and intersectionality
Audience:
The content of the webinar will appeal equally to those working in acute hospitals, as well as within mental health services themselves, and particularly those working at the interface between the two.
- Mental health system senior leaders
- Mental health clinicians, with a focus on psychiatric liaison professionals
- Acute provider leaders
- Acute provider clinicians, with a focus on ED settings
- Mental health service providers (including the VCSE sector and independent sector mental
health providers)
