In April Ray will be representing MHID at a major conference on advocacy in health in Berlin where he will lead a workshop on the European health policy agenda. Ray is also chairing three major conferences for community psychiatric nurses during 2005 being held in London, Newcastle and Birmingham, which will help to raise the profile of MHID with professionals in the UK.

Paul Cutler and Robert Hayward are attending the ABPI workshop in London on 25th February which will be looking at the relationship between the pharmaceutical industry and the voluntary health sector.