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Crossing the Work/Health Divide - Better Engagement with Employers

Thurs 13th October 2016, 9:45am to 16:15pm, Birmingham Hippodrome

This one day conference, builds on the previous CTN conference and is ideal for any health professional involved in either providing a vocational rehabilitation service or planning to develop a new service that supports the needs of people with long term conditions.

Further details and to secure the early bird discounted fee click...

Mental Fitness and Long Term Conditions

Thurs 13th 22nd Sept 2016, 9:45am to 1:00pm, London (£95)

'Mental Fitness' has been defined as "the modifiable capacity to utilise resources and skills to flexibly adapt to challenges or advantages, enabling thriving". The purpose of this new half day workshop is to offer healthcare professionals the opportunity to learn more about how they can help people to cope with self-managing the long term condition they are living with, using the concept of mental fitness.

 For Further details including the learning objectives click here.

Therapy Expo

Wed 23rd and 24th November, NEC, Birmingham

Outcome Measurement - is it improving and transforming service delivery? To find out more about this and other stories in the latest CTN newsletter then click on the link below.

Latest CTN News Bulletin

Overcoming the challenges of outcomes - Kathryn Moyse reports on the culture change around delivering and measuring effective outcomes.

Click here to read

MS and Fatigue:
Top Tips for Self Care, Dr Anita Rose

This 32-page booklet gives patients and health professionals access to the information they need at a glance; it provides a background to each subject and summarises all the practical strategies to help. 

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Life After Encephalitus

Life After Encephalitis provides a unique insight into the experiences of those affected by encephalitis, sharing the rich, perceptive, and often powerful, narratives of survivors and family members

It shows how listening to patient and family narratives can help us to understand how they make sense of what has happened to them, and also help professionals better understand and engage with them in practice.  

To read more about this helpful resource and purchase a copy click here

CHARM is the Community Hospitals Association's knowledge and resources website, dedicated to promoting research and good practice. Our mission is to share knowledge of community hospitals in order to continually improve community hospital services for patients, families and whole communities.

Details of how to become a member of the CHA can be found on the CHA website.