Clare Baguley

Clare is the Programme Manager for the Psychological Professions Network employed by Health Education North West. She trained as a Cognitive Behaviour Therapist at the Oxford Centre for Cognitive Therapy in 1998, having previously worked as a community psychiatric nurse in Tameside, Greater Manchester. In 2004 she joined The University of Manchester and led the post-graduate education programme for Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners under the Department of Health's Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme, which latterly developed to incorporate pathways in dementia care and psycho-social interventions for psychosis. Subsequently Clare became the IAPT North West Education Programme Lead with responsibility for managing and developing the interface between universities in the NW region of England and their clinical practice partners. She contributes regionally, nationally and internationally to training and conferences on primary care mental health with a particular interest in the use of psychological approaches in physical health care settings.