Managing conflict with colleagues

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6 CPD credits

Locations
  • Virtual
  • Virtual

This is a full-day virtual course.

Disputes between colleagues can have a significant impact on performance and wellbeing, as well as affecting patient experience and safety.

This course is designed to help healthcare professionals understand how and why conflicts arise within and between teams, as well as what they can do to try to resolve issues.

It aims to help you:

  • understand the causes and impact of colleague-to-colleague conflict in a healthcare context
  • appreciate different types of conflict personalities
  • identify how conflict develops
  • learn de-escalation strategies. 

Who should attend?

  • Consultants/specialists
  • GPs
  • Hospital doctors
  • Training grade doctors (GPST1-4 and ST1-8) 
  • Foundation doctors (FY2 only)
  • Practice managers

Accredited by the Federation of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the UK for 6 category 1 (external) CPD credits.

Speakers

Oscar Mathew

Oscar Mathew MA(Hons), barrister (Middle Temple), accredited mediator

Director, mediator & trainer, the Medical Mediation Foundation (MMF)

Oscar is a qualified barrister, mediator and door tenant of Lamb Chambers in Middle Temple. He has a background in regulatory and public law, with a particular interest in medical law and ethics. Prior to his work with MMF, Oscar was a senior legal adviser to the GMC, overseeing judicial reviews and statutory appellate work in the High Court, and had conduct of the Supreme Court case of Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board [2015] UKSC 11, one of the most significant medical law cases in the last 25 years. His work for MMF includes teaching, mediating and team facilitation for healthcare teams experiencing conflict.

Dr Esse Menson

Dr Esse Menson

Trainer, the Medical Mediation Foundation (MMF)

Esse became a consultant paediatrician in 2006 and accredited mediator in 2014. She gained a PhD in vaccine development research in 1989 before qualifying as a doctor in 1994, then training in Infectious Diseases & Immunology. In 2012, she helped develop the Evelina Resolution Project with MMF while she was a consultant at the Evelina London Children’s Hospital. She's one of the principal trainers working with MMF to deliver training in understanding and managing conflict to health and social care professionals. Esse has been a course director for the Guy's & St Thomas' MRCPCH Clinical Examination Course since 2012, and is certificated in compassion training from the Centre for Compassion & Altruism Research & Education and Mindful self compassion training (Kristen Neff/Christopher Germer model).

Dr Oliver Lord

Dr Oliver Lord

MDU medico-legal adviser

Oliver is part of a specialist advisory team that assists MDU members with disciplinary investigations and has an interest in doctors’ wellbeing. Before joining the MDU in 2013, Oliver was a consultant psychiatrist in a crisis resolution team. He provides regular talks and courses to members on medico-legal issues, conflict resolution and unconscious bias. 

Tuesday 29 September 2026, 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM Virtual

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Tuesday 24 November 2026, 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM Virtual

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