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Thurs 2nd February 2012, Life Centre, Newcastle
Helping Your Patients to Manage Cognitive Function
Due to popular demand we are pleased to offer another opportunity to attend this workshop run by Dr Anita Rose. This is an ideal workshop for any health professional where a decline in cognitive function is an issue, such as Brain Injury, Dementia, MS, Parkinsons and Stroke.
Book before the 31st December and pay £135 (CTN member rate). Lunch is included in the price and a certificate of attendance is provided for CPD purposes.
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Tuesday 21st February, Armada House, Bristol
Managing the Communication Challenges of Dementia
This workshop gives health and social care staff a thorough grounding in the communication challenges of dementia. It introduces practical techniques that can be implemented to help staff discover ways of achieving better communication with your patients.
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This event is also being run on the 8th of March in Glasgow. To book on that couse please click here>
Tues 28th Feb, Sir Alwyn Williams Building, Glasgow
Helping Your Patients to Manage Their Fatigue
Following the tremendous success and glowing feedback from earlier workshops, we are delighted to offer another opportunity to attend workshop on 'Helping Your Patients to Manage Fatigue'. In this workshop we offer a general introduction to how you can help you patents to manage fatigue.
Come and learn how to assess fatigue and how to manage it effectively. Book before the 28th January and pay only £135 (CTN member rate). Lunch is included in the price and a certificate of attendance is provided for CPD purposes.
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Thursday 8th March, Glasgow
Managing the Communication Challenges of Dementia
This workshop gives health and social care staff a thorough grounding in the communication challenges of dementia. It introduces practical techniques that can be implemented to help staff discover ways of achieving better communication with your patients.
More details and online booking >
9th March, Leeds
Competitive Tendering and Building Your Business Case for Community Health Professionals
This hands-on workshop aims to teach you the essential steps of competitive tendering and developing a business case to support a community therapy service within the developing commissioning environment. It will focus on explaining the various thought processes needed to help you and your colleagues respond to a tender and build a sound business case. To learn more and book your place please click on the following link:
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March, Stafford
Applied Skills in Clinical Supervision Workshop
This 1/2 day workshop, lead by Stephen Ingles, will enable participants to:
- Define the main principals of clinical supervision
- Gain a practical understanding of the issues that clinical supervisors face through discussion
- Acquire skills that promote confidence and help facilitate the supervision process
- Gain knowledge of the key elements of clinical supervision
More details to follow
Tuesday 17th April, Glasgow,
Vocational Rehabilitation for People with Long Term Neurological Conditions: Evidence and Expert Opnion Informing Clinical Practice
This event is for any health or social care professional working in community rehab or who is delivering vocational rehabilitation interventions. By attending this workshop you will hear the latest research evidence in vocational rehabilitation for people with LTNC and much more.
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May (tbc), Leeds
Therapy Outcome Measure Workshop
This workshop, lead by Prof Pam Enderby, will enable participants to be able to select an appropriate outcome measure for their clinical practice. Delegates go away with a greater understand of how best to collect and measure outcomes data on clients receiving treatments. The day includes both theoretical and practical components.
More details to follow
External events
SRR Winter Conference 2012
24th January, Ely
Primary Care North
25th and 26th January, Manchester
This is a two day event offering an outstanding learning opportunity to hear about the latest guidance and best practice in primary care. The are 12 conference programmes to select from and is free of charge to all health professionals.
Deciphering the Signs and Symptoms of Parkinson's
3rd February, London
This afternoon workshop is being run by the Primary Care Neurology Society. For further details click here >
Tuesday 7th February, The Met Hotel, King Street, Leeds LS1 2HQ
Pain Toolkit Workshop - Self Management Approaches for Long Term Pain
Presented by: Pete Moore, Co-author of the Pain Toolkit, Trainer and Expert Patients Programme Master Trainer and; Dr Frances Cole, GP, Pain Rehabilitation Specialist and Cognitive Behavioural Therapist, West Yorkshire.
The aim of this workshop is to enable you to gain understanding, confidence and skills to use the Pain Toolkit effectively as a self-management resource with your patients. The activities covered in this workshop will stimulate ideas of promoting pain self-management to your patients who need encouragement and tools to become active self-managers.
To book please click here
Multiple Sclerosis, Signs, Symptoms and Management
24th April, Education Centre, Royal Derby Hospital
This afternoon workshop is being run by the Primary Care Neurology Society. For further details click here >
Certificate In Resource Based Therapies
From Skills Development Service
The Certificate in Resource Based Therapies (RBT) Course consists of 4 training days that can be booked together or separately. This course is approved by the British Psychological Society Learning Centre for the purposes of Continuing Professional Development (CPD). To claim your 20% discount on the course fees, please quote CP00A when booking. For further details please click here.
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Previous events
Previous CTN events and Presentations >
10th November 2010, Birmingham
CTN Annual Conference - Managing Long term Conditions in the Community
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14th October 2009, Manchester
Therapy Outcome Measures: a practical workshop in its use, application and development
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14 October 2009, Manchester
Workshop
Building Your Business Case in Community Rehabilitation
A “hands on” workshop from the Community Therapists Network which aimed to teach you the essential steps of developing a business case, to support your rehabilitation service within the new commissioning environment.
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15th October 2009, Manchester
Community Therapists Network
Annual Conference 2009
'Patient Reported Outcome Measures'
Although providing ‘Patient Centred Care’ continues to be a major objective for the Department of Health, measuring the effectiveness of the care has until recently focused on processes and clinical indicators. Now, this is set to change with the drive to monitor patient outcomes.
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24 September 2008, Sheffield
Annual Conference
Provision of Community-Based Health Services: An Evidence-Based Approach
Speaker presentations from this conference available to download
This year's conference focused on two major projects:
Dr Susan Nancarrow's "COOP" Project examines the impact of staffing on the outcomes of community-based services for older people, covering patient, staff and service-related issues;
Professor Pam Enderby's "Enhancing the effectiveness of interprofessional working: cost and outcomes" looks at developing a good practice model to support interporofessional working in community-based therapy teams.
If you are planning any events in your local area and would like them listed on the CTN website, please email us at info@communitytherapy.org.uk and we will post them on the events listing.
