September 2008
Insights and Solutions: The combined 2nd International Conference on Alcohol and Other Drug Related Brain Impairment and the Brain Injury Australia National Conference 2008 will be held from Monday 1 – Wednesday 3 September 2008 in Melbourne, Australia. For more information, visit www.bia.net.au or www.arbias.org.au or email events@adf.org.au
UKABIF
Executive Committee Meeting
2nd September 2008 11-3 Irwin Mitchell Solcitors
Contact Chloe Hayward on
ukabif@btconnect.com
or call 01752869003
Surrey
Acquired Brain Injury Network
2nd September 2008 5-7pm
Provision at Rowland House, Thames Ditton
Tel: +44 (0) 1483
464 242
Email:
HelenGoatley@BarlowRobbins.com
BARLOW ROBBINS LLP
Sussex Acquired Brain
Injury Forum Meeting
Professor
Paul Toft - MRI Brain Scanning
8th September 7-9pm
Please contact Katie Russell on
Katie.Russell@asb-law.com
or Tel: 01273 828069 for more details
Kent
Acquired Brain Injury Forum Meeting
11th September 2008 at 3:00pm, venue Headway East Kent in
Canterbury
Speakers: Sue Ware, Independent Speech & Language Therapist
and
Rachel Felton/Anna Borthwick of Disabled Go, "bringing information,
freedom and choice to millions of disabled people
Please contact Frances Pierce on 01825 745 360 or
francespierce@rixandkay.co.uk
for further information or visit
www.kabif.org.uk
Understanding
and Dealing with Behavioural Problems following Brain Injury: A
Workshop
Friday 19th September 2008 until Saturday 20th September
2008
Gatwick Hilton, South Terminal, London Gatwick Airport, Crawley,
Sussex, RH6 0LL
This two day interactive workshop is suitable for people working
with adults who have emotional or behavioural problems following
brain injury. The course focuses on developing an understanding of
how and why such problems occur, and how best to assess and treat
them.
For more details please visit
www.cognitive-rehab.org.uk/braintree
or email
Enquiries@BrainTreeTraining.co.uk.
Eastern
Region Brain Injury Forum
24th September
2008 14:00 - 16:00
Trudine Newman– Psychologist Partnerships in Care
Venue - Oliver Zangwill Centre, Cambridge
Contact Samantha Coburn on
info@erbif.org.uk
for details
5th World Congress
for NeuroRehabilitation
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
www.wfnr.co.uk/docs/congress_world.htm
October 2008
BISWG
8th Annual Brain Injury Legal Seminar
Thursday
2nd October 2008
City Temple Conference Centre, Holborn, London
Contact Lynn Bellgard by email on
lbellgard@rhn.org.uk
or by phone on 0208 8780 4500 ext 5161
Northern Acquired
Brain Injury Forum
3rd October,
12 noon, Carlisle, Venue
TBC
Details from Paul Saxon on
pauls@b-h-p.com
Surrey
Acquired Brain Injury Network
7th October 3-5.30
Capacity in practice - a reminder of the law and a workshop on
practical problems, issues and pitfalls
Barlow Robbins LLP
Tel: +44 (0) 1483
464 242
Email:
HelenGoatley@BarlowRobbins.com
BARLOW ROBBINS LLP
Temple Head
17-18 October 2008,
Istitutio
Don Calabria,
Verona, Italy
Talks will include a summary of the activities of Temple Head in the
Eastern region of England, where with Department of Health support,
we are creating Co-ordinators to signpost patients with adverse
brain scans to relevant local resources. There will be short
presentations from Italian speakers and on Saturday morning there
will be workshops to identify what Temple-Head has achieved in the
Eastern region and how our template can be used to rollout a similar
framework on a national basis. Contact Andrea Balmer at
admin@templehead.org,
telephone number 07823888501.
Headway
20th October 2008
Rehabilitation After Brain Injury
Stratford-upon-Avon
See the Headway website for more details
November 2008
Trust-ed
A New Sense of Self - coping with the social and behavioural changes
following ABI
Monday 10th November 2008
East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham
For More information contact Julie Scheller by email on
julie.scheller@freethcartwright.co.uk
or by phone on 0115 935 1879
Advanced
Cognitive Rehabilitation Workshop: Attention & Information
Processing
Friday 21st November 2008 until Saturday 22nd November,
2008
Gatwick Hilton, South Terminal, London Gatwick Airport, Crawley,
Sussex, RH6 0LL
This two day interactive workshop is suitable for professionals
working with adults who have cognitive problems following brain
injury. Attendees should ideally have completed the basic cognitive
rehabilitation workshop. The course
focuses on developing clinical expertise in the rehabilitation of
attention and information processing deficits.
For more details please visit
www.cognitive-rehab.org.uk/braintree
or email
Enquiries@BrainTreeTraining.co.uk.
Eastern Region Brain
Injury Forum
26th November 2008 14:00 - 16:00
Caroline Ferber – Manger - Anglia Case Management~
Venue Headway – Ipswich, Kesgrave
Office
Contact Samantha Coburn on
info@erbif.org.uk
for details
UKABIF Annual General
Meeting and Conference - Wither the NSF
Thursday 27th November 2008
The Resource Centre, London
Contact Chloe Hayward on
ukabif@btconnect.com
or call 01752869003
December 2008
Kent Acquired
Brain Injury Forum Meeting
3rd December 2008 at 7:00pm, venue Headway Tunbridge
Wells & District in Tunbridge Wells
Speakers: Neil Cawthorn of Temple-Head – brain injury
support service signposting people with ABI to relevant services
through brain injury coordinators situated at Ipswich Hospital, West
Suffolk Hospital and James Paget Hospital –
On Saving Lives and Improving Quality of Life
and Martin Green, Chief Executive
of English Community Care Association –
Past Vice
Chair of the National Brain Injury Consortium
Please contact Frances Pierce on 01825 745 360 or
francespierce@rixandkay.co.uk
for further information or visit
www.kabif.org.uk
Northern Acquired Brain Injury Forum
3rd December
12 noon, Walkergate
Park International Centre for Neurorehabilitation,
Benfield Road
Newcastle upon Tyne NE6 4QD
Details from Paul Saxon on
pauls@b-h-p.com
UKABIF Executive Committee Meeting
11th December 2008 11-3 Irwin Mitchell Solicitors
Contact Chloe Hayward on
ukabif@btconnect.com
or call 01752869003
Surrey
Acquired Brain Injury Network
11th December
2008 6-9pm
Christmas Social!
Barlow Robbins LLP
Tel: +44 (0) 1483
464 242
Email:
HelenGoatley@BarlowRobbins.com
BARLOW ROBBINS LLP