This event is organised by the SPS Committee.
Senior Physicians Society - Gardens
This event is now closed for online bookings. To book your place, please contact us via email at sps@rcp.ac.uk.
The Senior Physicians Society (previously called The Quincentennial Society) is an association that provides for widows and widowers of fellows and members of the RCP and retired fellows and members of the RCP and its faculties, an opportunity to contribute to the activities of the RCP and enjoy the scientific, cultural and educational meetings to which selected speakers are invited.
Lectures are now opened to the public. They are usually held three times a year, and attract outstanding speakers across science, the arts, the humanities and issues of the day.
Programme:
10.45am – Registration, tea and coffee
11.20am – Tours of the garden given by the RCP Garden fellows
12pm – Welcome and introduction, Professor Dafydd John Thomas, chair, Senior Physicians' Society Committee
12.05pm – Accidental lessons from Chelsea Physic Garden: digging a little deeper into why conflict, laughter and storytelling can be useful therapeutic tools
Shirley White, volunteer, Chelsea Physic Garden
12.45pm – Seated lunch
2:00pm – Tours of the garden given by the RCP Garden fellows
2.45pm – The gardening of Eden
Catherine Cutler, interim head of Horticulture, Eden Project
3.25pm – The Doctor's Garden: John Coakley Lettsom and Grove Hill
Clare Hickman, reader in environmental and medical history, Newcastle University, author of The Doctor's Garden: Medicine, Science and Horticulture in Britain
4.05pm – Close of meeting
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Date
20 May 2024
Price
Not a society member : £58
Society member/Widow(er) of a society member : £48
Location
Royal College of Physicians of London, 11 St Andrews Place, Regent's Park, NW1 4LE
20 May 2024
Not a society member : £58
Society member/Widow(er) of a society member : £48
Royal College of Physicians of London
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