Annual Personal Injury Seminar 2018 | 2 days – Manchester
This two day event will look at all aspects of rehabilitation concentrating on brain injury and will also cover spinal injury and amputation.
This event is a headline rehabilitation event designed for personal injury lawyers, insurers, case managers and other health and social care professionals working with brain and spinal injuries.
Day 1
Rehabilitation in Brain Injury
08:50 – 09:20 – Coffee and Registration
09:20 – 09:30 – Welcome
09:30 – 10:00 – Mike Barnes – Professor of Neurological Rehabilitation and Managing Partner of National Neurological Rehabilitation Chambers – Things missed and messed up after traumatic brain injury
10:00 – 10:30 – Heather Batey – Occupational Therapist at Reach Personal Injury Services Ltd – Care, Support or Rehabilitation: Are we offering a fish or a fishing lesson?
10:30 – 11:00 – Maggie Sargent – CCMS – Value of group holidays
11:00 – 11:20 – Coffee break
11:20 – 11:50 – Sean Day – Calvert Trust – The power of the great outdoors
11:50 – 12:20 – Bill Braithwaite QC – Exchange Chambers – ADR as it relates to rehabilitation and the choice of unit and type
12:20 – 12:50 – Dr Julian Harriss – National Neurological Rehabilitation Chambers – Choosing the right expert
12:50 – 13:40 – Lunch
13:40 – 14:10 – Dr Peter Savundra – The Portland Hospital – The vestibular system, performance and emotion, including physical deconditioning in rehabilitation
14:10 – 14:40 – Dr Marc Beale – Malvern Scientific – Assistive Technology in neuro-rehabilitation and personal injury litigation
14:40 – 15:00 – Coffee break
15:00 – 15:30 – Helen Gill-Thwaites – Gill-Thwaites & Elliott Consulting – Assessing Prolonged Disorders of Consciousness (PDOC). Detective Work at Its Best
15:30 – 16:00 – Paul Kirtley – Exchange Chambers – Severe Head Injury, Rehabilitation, Joint Case Managers and Private Funding/ State Provision – a look at the legal realities of funding rehabilitation in the more challenging cases
Day 2
08:50 – 09:20 – Coffee and Registration
09:20 – 09:30 – Welcome
What you need to know about prosthetic rehabilitation
09:30 – 09:50 – Paul Richardson – Pace Rehabilitation – Things to consider and what you need to know about amputee rehabilitation
09:50 – 10:20 – Gerard Martin QC – Exchange Chambers – The law and how to apply it in amputee rehabilitation
10:20 – 10:50 – Zeeshan Sheikh – Plastic Surgeon, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust – What’s a plastic surgeon got to do with it all? – Zeeshan will be discussing issues related to amputee patients that are referred to him for potential surgical intervention and how they tend to deal with stump complications.
10:50 – 11:10 – Coffee break
11:10 – 11:40 – Joanna Lane plus Consultant Neurologist Dr Shagufay Mahendran – The Walton Centre – Endocrine problems – a frequently missed barrier to rehabilitation
11:40 – 12:10 – Howard Jackson – TRU Rehabilitation – Acquired Brain Injury and Issues of Mental Capacity
12:10 – 12:30 – Michelle Kudhail – National Neurological Rehabilitation Chambers – The real value of the Physio expert
12:30 – 13:20 – Lunch
13:20 – 14:50 – Meet the Experts – Heather Batey, Maggie Sargent, Mark Holloway, Angela Kerr, Dr Neil Brooks, Cathy Johnson, and Vicki Gilman – An interactive session with the opportunity to speak directly to a range of experts
14:50 – 15:10 – Coffee break
Rehabilitation in spinal injury
15:10 – 15:30 – David Knifton QC – Exchange Chambers – The role of a legal team in spinal injury rehabilitation
15:30 – 16:00 – Simon Arnold – ‘the client’ – Simon will talk about his rehabilitation journey
16:00 – 16:30 – Mr. Joy Roy Chowdhury MBBS, MRCS – Clinical Lead & Consultant Surgeon in Spinal Injuries at The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust – Spinal Cord Injury – Its More Than Just Medicine
How to Book
To book either Day 1 or Day 2, the cost is £150 + VAT per day. If you wish to attend both days, the cost will be £295 + VAT.
Lunch and refreshments will be provided throughout the day.
