Report on the 2001 Members Day and Annual General Meeting To view a gallery of images of the event, please click here The event was held in the splendid setting of the European Room of the old City Chambers in Edinburgh, and it certainly measured up to the surroundings. In the morning, there was a fascinating account by Pamela Scott of the problems of the mentally ill in relation to information processing. Pamela Scott Pamela's background is both in nursing and psychology. She is currently a research assistant working within the section of Cognitive Psychopharmacology at the Institute of Psychiatry, London. Pamela's primary areas of interest centre on cognitive impairments in individuals with a diagnosis of Schizophrenia and the remediation of these deficits either in the form of pharmacological intervention or cognitive therapy. She has kindly made available her PowerPoint presentation, which has been converted for web viewing. To see it, please click here. When the presentation opens, click on any of the slide titles in the left-hand pane to view them. To view them in sequence, click on the right chevron at the bottom of the screen. A special link has been added to each slide so that you can exit straight back to this page. After lunch, Lynn Welsh, Legal Officer for the Disability Rights Commission Scotland, spoke about the working of the Disability Discrimination Act. Lynn Welsh Lynn has been a Solicitor for fifteen years. During that time she ran a Mental Health Legal Representation Project for five years which provided advice and legal representation to people with a mental health problem or dementia. She also ran a Law Centre in Renfrewshire for four years, specialising in Disability and Community Care issues. Lynn is currently a Solicitor for the Disability. Rights Commission and has been in that post since December, 2000. That position involves giving advice, doing legal policy work and representing disabled people with test cases in Courts and Tribunals. She has also kindly made available her PowerPoint presentation, which we have converted for web viewing. To see it, please click here. When the presentation opens, click on any of the slide titles in the left-hand pane to view them. To view them in sequence, click on the right chevron at the bottom of the screen. A special link has been added to each slide so that you can exit straight back to this page. Annual General Meeting The Annual General Meeting was chaired by Susan Kirkwood, Chairman of the Fellowship. The Annual Report, available in PDF format, contains a summary of the past year's work and finances. In the course of the meeting, the accounts were presented and agreed, as were the auditors. Two Board members, Mrs Mary Fawdry and Mr Duncan Cameron, retired at the AGM and they were thanked in their absence for their work for the Fellowship. Mr Donald Rankin and Mrs Diane D'Alessandro, who had been co-opted during the past year, were duly elected to the Board. Two members whose term of office had come to an end, Mrs Valerie Eaglesham and Mrs Sheila Cooper, were also elected. One new member was elected and welcomed to the Board, namely Mrs Carolyn Little.

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