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Bookings Close 5pm on Friday 10 October

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Join us on Saturday 11 October 2025 at South Manchester Family Church for a day of encouragement, worship, and practical insight into life as a Christian in health and social care.

This conference will explore finding our identity in God, challenges in the NHS, long-term fruitfulness, and living out faith at work. With a mix of speakers, small group prayer, worship, and time to connect.

Lunch and refreshments included. Cost: £20 (£5 concession).

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Planning Your Medical Elective Evening
Join us for an evening of insight dedicated to helping you plan your medical elective. This event will feature hosts who will share their own elective experiences, provide valuable advice, and answer any questions you may have.

Whether you’re seeking guidance on choosing a location, navigating logistics, or maximising your learning experience, this is the perfect opportunity to gather practical tips and connect with others who have been through the process already.

Don’t miss out on this chance to prepare for your elective!

Are you working in Global Health and Mission?

Are you a generalist?

CMF Global is hosting a series of interactive online training modules. These will be collaborative, with teaching, questions and feedback. The tutorials are led by General Practitioners and Specialists with experience in working with limited resources in a rural context.

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Saline for Resident Doctors pre-conference

Do you have questions about faith at work? 

• Is talking about faith legitimate? 

• Is it good medicine? 

• Is it practical? 

• Would I have time? 

• How can I learn more? 

The medical literature increasingly recognises the important link between spirituality and health. Yet many Christian health professionals feel frustrated by the challenge of integrating faith and practice within the time constraints and legal obligations of the workplace. GMC guidelines approve discussions of faith issues with patients provided it is done appropriately and sensitively. 

Christians are called to be ‘the salt of the earth’ flavouring life with grace and truth. Saline Solution is a one-day course designed to help Christian healthcare professionals become more comfortable addressing a person’s spiritual needs in a clinical context. There is a mixture of teaching and small group discussion. 

This mini course will take place from1pm (UK time) on Friday, 07 November 2025 at Yarnfield Park Training & Conference Centre.

Registration will be open form 12pm.

Lunch 12- 1pm (Note that the option of booking a hot buffet lunch will only be available until 7^th October. Otherwise please make alternative arrangements for lunch before the course)

Your Saline trainers: Dave and Anne Crick  

Saline session 1pm – 5.30pm

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Dates: Friday 7 November 2025 to Sunday 9 November 2025 (5.30pm Friday till 2pm Sunday)

Venue: Yarnfield Park Training & Conference Centre, Stone, Staffordshire, ST15 0NL

For any booking enquiries please contact events@cmf.org.uk

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No refunds will be paid for cancellation after 8 October 2025. If you cancel your booking before 8 October 2025, payment will be returned with the deduction of a £40 administration fee. Please note the booking closing date has been brought forward due to administrative requirements.

For more details or enquiries, contact:

events@cmf.org.uk

Tel: 020 7234 9660

Wholeness in Christ

‘As you received Christ Jesus the Lord,  so, walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith’  (Colossians 2:6-7)

Westerners today enjoy longer lives and greater comfort than preceding generations but increasing numbers struggle with their mental and emotional wellbeing. Christian doctors are not immune to these struggles, especially working in a system that often feels like it is stretched to breaking point. Surrounded by philosophies of self-help and mindfulness, manifestation and resilience, we can lose confidence in Christ. We need to recover an approach to life and work that is grounded on Christ. That’s what the apostle Paul, inspired by the Holy Spirit, presents to us in Colossians. By digging into this letter, we’ll see that Christ is supreme in everything and sufficient for our emotions and thoughts and we’ll learn how a Christ-centred vision can inspire and sustain us in our work and relationships. This is an opportunity to return to our roots in Christ and to be built up in him so we can serve others with thankfulness and hope.

Speaker: Paul Coulter lives in Northern Ireland with his wife Gar-Ling (a geriatrician) and their two teenaged children. He started his working life in medicine before moving into cross-cultural pastoral ministry then taking theological studies to PhD level and teaching practical theology. Currently, he is Head of Ministry Operations with Living Leadership and serves voluntarily as Executive Director of the Centre for Christianity in Society. He has written four books, including Serving Two Masters: Probing the Tensions Between Faith and Science in the Art of Healthcare (CMF, 2022) and Keeping Care Pastoral: The Heart of Gospel-Shaped Pastoral Care (PESIOD, 2022). In his spare time, he likes walking fields and hills with his dog, reading about history, and writing poetry

Saline for Resident Doctors pre-conference

Do you have questions about faith at work? 

• Is talking about faith legitimate? 

• Is it good medicine? 

• Is it practical? 

• Would I have time? 

• How can I learn more? 

The medical literature increasingly recognises the important link between spirituality and health. Yet many Christian health professionals feel frustrated by the challenge of integrating faith and practice within the time constraints and legal obligations of the workplace. GMC guidelines approve discussions of faith issues with patients provided it is done appropriately and sensitively. 

Christians are called to be ‘the salt of the earth’ flavouring life with grace and truth. Saline Solution is a one-day course designed to help Christian healthcare professionals become more comfortable addressing a person’s spiritual needs in a clinical context. There is a mixture of teaching and small group discussion. 

This mini course will take place from1pm (UK time) on Friday, 07 November 2025 at Yarnfield Park Training & Conference Centre.

Registration will be open form 12pm.

Lunch 12- 1pm (Note that the option of booking a hot buffet lunch will only be available until 9^th October. Otherwise please make alternative arrangements for lunch before the course)

Your Saline trainers: Dave and Anne Crick  

Saline session 1pm – 5.30pm

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Open to all CMF Members

The health service day to day feels chaotic; too much demand, not enough resource, changing priorities and pressure, pressure, pressure……

How do we respond as Christians?

All our speakers have experience at the sharp end of the complexities and challenges of modern healthcare, but have also thought deeply about their faith and how to apply it when ‘the rubber hits the road’ on Monday morning.

8.00     Introduction                                                                    Chris Holcombe

8.05     My Journey through Chaos (video)                            Catriona Waitt

8.15     My Journey through Chaos – update                         Catriona Waitt

8.20     A Christian Response to the NHS in crisis                Oge Chese

8.35     The theological basis to the NHS in crisis                  Mark White

8.50     Discussion and prayer

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Speakers

Chris Holcombe
Chris is a consultant breast surgeon and clinical lead for breast services in Swansea, and has held multiple leadership roles in the NHS locally, regionally and nationally.

Out of work he enjoys time with grandchildren, in the mountains or on the coast in West Wales and is involved in his local church and leads CHLN on behalf of the Christian Medical Fellowship.

Catriona Waitt

Is Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Global Health with a particular interest in medication use among pregnant and breastfeeding women. Cat runs a research group in Uganda with collaborations around the world; and is a mother of five. 

Perhaps when you were younger it felt extremely exciting to ‘live on the edge’, and take bold steps to live by faith in a world which seems increasingly disinterested in spiritual things. But now you face increasing leadership responsibilities at work, in church and in the community, and are navigating the joys of raising adolescents whilst aware of your declining physical strength – you can feel hard pressed on all sides! If so, this short talk aims to give a fresh perspective on how to keep serving God as you lead ‘through the chaos’.

Oge Chesa

Oge is the convenor of the quarterly NHS Strategic Prayer Summits and weekly NHS Strategic Prayer Storms that have been praying around NHS matters since 2015. The vision, which is based on Hebrews 8:4-5, brings together those with a heart for the NHS to ‘stand in the gap’ to see that the NHS in every facet is aligned to the agenda of Heaven. 

Oge will look at what Jesus would do if he was in the NHS today.

Mark White

Mark is Chief Technology Officer at a large NHS Trust in London. He is a clinical scientist by background, mainly working in imaging and surgical navigation, then moved into digital leadership nearly ten years ago, joining his Trust’s senior directors’ team during the Covid pandemic. He lives in London with his wife and two daughters. 

Mark will be helping us think about what the Bible has to say about healthiness and longevity, and whether that perspective can help us understand our ever-increasing expectations of the National Health Service.

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Built on the Rock is a series of webinars for resident doctors

In a rapidly changing cultural landscape, we often feel caught in the tension between our Christian faith and a secular workplace. The NHS and wider society seem to be increasingly at odds with biblical principles or even faith in general. But how can we, as Christian doctors, navigate this cultural divide while staying true to our faith? 

In this series, we’ll explore some of the questions we face as a Christian in modern medicine, including: 

• How do I stay faithful to Jesus when cultural pressures clash with biblical truths? 

• What does it look like to engage with critical theory, postmodernism, and secular ideologies in healthcare? 

• How can I advocate for life when the ethics of abortion, euthanasia, and patient care are hotly debated? 

We’d love you to join us in this series of online talks on the first Monday of a month where we’ll provide foundational biblical principles to help us wrestle with the big questions life and medical practice can pose.  

Next session: Burnout and resilience

with Steve Sturman

Monday, 1 December | 7.30 pm to 8.30 pm on Zoom

“Why another session on Burnout might be worth the effort…”

There’s always a risk when you keep hearing about something,  that you stop thinking it is relevant anymore. Self-care, pacing, wellbeing are all vogue terms that after a while, can cease to connect with us.  Views about Burnout range widely from scepticism to obsession. What is the truth? Should I be concerned? What does the Bible say about this? And what difference does being a Christian make? In this seminar we will explore the impact of burnout on clinicians and the way they care for patients. There are serious implications for getting it wrong and significant dividends for getting it right.. it might just be worth the effort.

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Who are you?

It is a fundamental question to answer as you start your journey as a health professional. The world has a lot of answers, you are your job, your sexuality, your gender, or your racial and national identity. But the gospel of Jesus tells us that we are forgiven, we are chosen, we are beloved, we are made holy, and we are God’s own treasured possession. How do we live out that truth in our everyday life, our studies, and our careers?

Join us at CMF’s Student Conference – from 30 January to 1 February 2026 (Yarnfield, Staffordshire)

If you’re a Student, here’s our top tips for booking
1. Grab a cup of tea, and have a read to choose four seminars you would like to attend, look through your options in our Conference Programme.

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2. Get your Student Discount Code.

If you have you joined CMF it will be able to access it via the member portal. If you are not yet a member you can join here

3. Now you’re ready to book onto Student Conference 2026.

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Thanks to generous donations, extra subsidies may be available to help students attend the Student Conference. If any bursary is available, we’ll be in touch — any support will be arranged as a refund after the event.

For non-Students
1. If you’re a Medical School Link coming with a group of students, please select the Med School Link Ticket on the booking form
2. If you have happy memories of your time at Student Conference, and if you would like to invest in the next generation of Christians healthcare professionals please use the donation form:

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