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Welcome
Welcome to the Community Therapists Network, a national organisation providing information, training and education to
AHPs working within rehabilitation and intermediate care settings and who work across education, health, mental health and social care (local government).
They provide care and support for people living with long-term
conditions.
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Visual perceptual and visual spatial difficulties after brain injury
Wed 12th Sept, Raphael Hospital Group, Glenside, Nr
Salisbury
This workshop, with Professor Barbara A Wilson and Dr Anita Rose will aim to help delegates learn about environmental modifications that can enable those with very severe problems to survive with visual perceptual deficits and discover some of the visual aids available to help people compensate for their problems.
To read more and book
to attend click here.
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Mental Capacity Assessment and
Supporting Decision -Making for SLTs
This is a 'hands-on' workshop that focuses on working with people with acquired
neurological conditions and is lead by two leading
experts in the field, Mark Jayes, a SLT, with specialist
knowledge of Mental Capacity Assessment and Anna Volkmer, NIHR
Doctoral Research Fellow and SLT. If you are wishing to get to
grips with assessment of mental capacity, with a particular
focus on working with people with acquired neurological
conditions, this workshop is ideal.
Details of the next open enrolment workshop will be
available soon. Alternatively email
info@communitytherapy.org.uk if you wish to run this as
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Therapy Outcome Measure - User
Survey. Thank you to all those who
completed the survey. We will publish the findings of the
survey in due course
Overcoming the challenges of outcomes
- Kathryn Moyse reports on the culture change around delivering and measuring effective outcomes.
Click here to read
this article
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Health Education with a difference
Focus Games
We are delighted to be featuring the
work of Focus Games, who offer an innovative team building approach to supporting health
professional training, through games. Take a look at what they have
to offer you and your colleagues by clicking on the image,
and if you are keen to try any of the games go, please use the code
STR10 to save 10% on your order.
Further details from here
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Importance of Good Data
NHS services across the country
continue to be challenged with measuring and improving
the quality of their services, and as part of that
process, they need to capture data. This, as Karen
Middleton, CEO of the Chartered Society of
Physiotherapists states in her video message at TOMs
CONNECT.
To view the video click here
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Crossing the Work/Health Divide - Better Engagement with Employers
Meeting report now available
All attendees enjoyed learning from the experiences of VR
specialist colleagues across the UK. The discussion sessions
enabled people to share their own perspectives. The importance
of supporting employees mental health and ways of doing that
was a significant feature of the day, along with an excellent
presentation which got people thinking about what outcomes VR
services should be measuring. To read the executive summary
click here
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People and Animals UK CIC: An independent community organisation, driving social change, supporting coordinated community action in economically marginalised, isolated communities.
Creating opportunities for excluded, vulnerable people to engage, share ideas and develop an identity, we utilise the non-threatening appeal of animals to overcome barriers faced; regardless of disability, mental health challenges, age, culture, economic status, background.
From engagement to empowerment, we provide stability through strong community connections to enable voices of those who have not previously been heard.
Further details of the organisatin can
be found from
here
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