Professor Barnes received a Lifetime Achievement Award for contributions to the field of neurorehabilitation this week from the brother of the Emir of Abu Dhabi – Sheikh Khalifa. He said ” I was very honoured to receive this award and very grateful to the Sheikh for sparing the time to come to the conference in Abu Dhabi to present it. It was shared with…
Christchurch Group will be exhibiting at the 4th Annual Northamptonshire Acquired Brain Injury Conference on 21st May 2015 – ‘Brain Injury – Who Cares’. The conference will be held at the Kettering Conference Centre and brings together speakers able to address the latest changes in obtaining support from local services (Care Act 2014); how challenges to…
Staff and service users at Christchurch, Hunters Moor had a fun packed day celebrating Red Nose Day 2015. A number of activities were held during the day from a Tombola raffle to cake selling to staff participating in a job swap. The team raised an impressive sum of £115.45.
Specialist rehabilitation for patients with complex neurological disability would save the NHS money, says British Society of Rehabilitation Medicine president Professor Lynne Turner-Stokes, of the Cicely Saunders Institute at King’s College London. Long-term neurological conditions present a complex interaction of physical, cognitive, communicative and psychosocial problems which cause disability for more than a million people…
