CPD Seminar Theatre Programme

The Naidex CPD Seminar Theatre will host a whole range of seminars designed to aid your professional development.

Seminars are free to attend and certificates of attendance are available to add to your CPD portfolio.

Click below to see the seminars on a particular day or scroll down for the full programme.

>>Tuesday 20th April

>>Wednesday 21st April

>>Thursday 22nd April

Tuesday 20th April 2010

10:30am - What's new at COT

Speaker: Julia Skelton, Head of Professional Practice

Organisation: College of Occupational Therapy

11:30am - CPD Audits - lessons learnt

Speaker: Mark Potter, CPD Communications Manager

Organisation: Health Professions Council

Subject: How are the audits going? What can we learn from the audits so far? And can we do anything differently with our CPD to make our audit go smoothly?

12:30pm - More sling challenges

Speaker: Richard Handley

Organisation: Care and Independence systems Ltd

Subject: This seminar will address the ever-changing field of slings and give attendees the up-to-date knowledge they need to meet the individual requirements of their clients.

13:30pm - Inspirational Housing Design for Easy Living

Speaker: Mark Edworthy

Organisation: Inspirational Speaker and Wheelchair User

Subject: This CPD seminar is presented by a full-time wheelchair user. Hear first-hand how simple ideas can lead to easy and comfortable living. Many of these ideas can be incorporated in an existing home.

Using his own award-winning grand design as an example, Mark will describe the innovative features that make this house extremely easy and comfortable to live in. Many of the solutions make life easier for everyone. In the future, these innovations for easy living may become standard, but you can hear about them today.

If you are involved in adapting, extending, or even building a home, this is a presentation you shouldn't miss.

14:30pm - Environmental Design and Dementia

Speaker: Lesley Collier

Organisation: Jackie Pool Associates

Subject: An insightful presentation on dementia and design run by one of the leading Occupational Therapists within this field.

15:30pm - How can therapists influence product design of the future

Speakers: Guy Smallman, Development Director
Dr Gill Ward, OT & Principal Lecturer in Assistive Tech
Darren Awang, OT and Course Director

Organisation: Coventry University Health Design & Technology Institute (HDTI)

Subject: The seminar will examine the principles and importance of inclusive design and explore ways in which OTs can contribute to good design by understandnig the problems users face and working with companies to develop innovative and appropriate solutions. Case studies will be included to illustrate how this can be achieved.

Wednesday 21st April 2010

10.30am - Coaching for independence: creating sustainable futures

Speaker: Jen Nash, Independent OT, Life Coach
Organisation: OT Coach

Subject: Interest in coaching has grown in recent years. Practitioners in health and disability have become increasing interested in the contribution that coaching could make to their profession and individual work with service users.

This seminar will examine:
1) What coaching is.
2) Why coaching has become so popular.
3) The potential applications and benefits coaching holds for disability and rehabilitation.
4) A practical exercise to use for yourself and your service users.
5) Possible ways to incorporate coaching into your practice.

11:30am - Inspirational Kitchen design

Speaker: Adam Thomas

Organisation: Design Matters

Subject: An overview of inclusive and inspriational accessible kitchen design. Adam will explain the key principals around good kitchen design and how this crucial room can be made functional as well as beautiful.

12:30pm - More sling challenges

Speaker: Richard Handley

Organisation: Care and Independence Systems Ltd

Subject: This seminar will address the ever-changing field of slings and give attendees the up-to-date knowledge they need to meet the individual requirements of their clients.

13:30pm - CPD Audits - lessons learnt

Speaker: Mark Potter, CPD Communications Manager

Organisation: Health Professions Council

Subject: How are the audits going? What canwe learn from the audits so far? And can we do anythnig differently with our CPD to make our audit go smoothly?

14:30pm - Seating Matters - WHY?

Speaker: Martina Tierney, Occupational Therapist

Organisation: Seating Matters

Subject: Following the training session the delegate will
1. Be more aware of the importance of seating and proper assessment
2. Have an insight into how poor seating can cause severe problems to clients in posture and pressure care
3. Have the ability to carry out improved assessments
4. Have improved knowledge on the effects of sitting on pressure ulcer development
5. Have the ability to identify their own goals for seating particular clients
6. Have the competence to match product with client
7. Have the ability to analyse the product to ensure it meets with clients needs
8. Ongoing support from Martina Tierney (OT) and the company on future seating challenges.

15:30pm - Independent Practice-Can I do it

Organisation: Harrison Associates

Speaker: Jan Harrison

Subject: Indpendent practice has been an emerging area of practice for Occupational Therapist, come and listen to one of the leading experts in this field on what opportunities are available.

Thursday 22nd April 2010

10:30am - Adapting for a lifetime

Speaker: Malcolm Ramsay

Organisation: Foundations

Subject: Major adaptations services are increasingly embattled as local authorities seek to manage rising demand and the growing prospect of reduced funding from local authorities. Foundations, the national body for home improvement agencies, recently launched a report Adapting for a lifetime which tackles the desperate need for service improvement despite these challenges and constraints. This session will explore ideas for improving processes, recycling costs and providing a client-led approach, all of which can dramatically increase the preventative outcomes of adaptations.

11:30am - Prevention in later life - is it worth it?

Speaker: Margit Physant, Policy Adviser for Health and Wellbeing

Organisation: Age UK

Subject: Prevention is better than cure, but what is the scope for improving health and wellbeing in later life? The speaker will outline possible actions to improve health and wellbeing for older people and consider cost-implications.

12:30pm - Dropped feet, trips and falls ......... How FES can be used to improve walking and therefore confidence

Speaker: Jon Graham

Organisation: Physiofunction

Subject: Foot drop is a common mobility problem following Stroke, Multiple Sclerosis, Head Injury, Parkinson's disease and incomplete Spinal Injury.

Functional electrical stimulation (FES) activates the muscles that lift the foot at the ankle and enables the user to clear the ground during swing phase. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) investigated this technology and concluded that it was safe and effective for treating foot drop.

The workship will provide a brief review of the neurophysiology of electrical stimulation and the literature on effectiveness of FES for preventing trips and falls. There will be a thorough independent overview of the three currently available FES systems in the UK for professionals to be better able to advise their patients n which might be best to help them:
1. PACE
2. Walkaide from Innovative Technologies
3. L300 from Bioness

13:30pm - Inspirational Kitchen design

Speaker: Adam Thomas

Organisation: Design Matters

Subject: An overview of inclusive and inspirational accessible kitchen design. Adam will explain the key principals around good kitchen design and how this crucial room can be made functional as well as beautiful.

14:30pm - CPD Audits - lessons learnt

Speaker: Mark Potter

Organisation: Health Professions Council

Subject: How are the audits going: What can we learn from audits so far: And can we do anything differently with our CPD to make our audit go smoothly?

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