Courses, conferences, training and clinical supervision

Recent advances in the assessment, diagnosis and management of people with severe brain injuries and a Disorder of Consciousness - 23rd and 24th June 2026. 

Venue: Chobham Golf Club, Chobham Road, Knaphill, Woking, Surrey GU21 2TZ

FINAL Programme

Day 1 – 23rd June Tuesday:

09:00 – 09:30 Registration

09:30 – 10:25 Prolonged Disorders of Consciousness in 2060: What may happen and what won’t happen - Prof Derick Wade, Consultant in Rehabilitation Medicine. 

10.25 – 11:15 Recent changes in the law regarding the decision making framework for people in Disorder of Consciousness - Professor Lynne Turner-Stokes DM FRCP Director, Regional Rehabilitation Unit, Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow.

11:15 – 11:35 Coffee

11:35 – 12:10 Modelling psychedelic treatments in DoC & fMRI analysis for DoC diagnosis/prognosis Naji Alnagger, PhD candidate, Coma Science Group, GIGA Consciousness, University of Liege, Belgium.

12:10 – 12:55 Challenges in the litigation process involving severe brain injuries. Warren A Collins, Solicitor-Advocate, Partner, Personal Injury. Penningtons Manches Cooper.

12:55 – 14:00 Lunch and networking

14:00 – 14:45 Assessing communication in patients emerging from PDOC – an interactional perspective. Dr Amy Pundole (PhD Clinical Communication Sciences), Clinical Lead Speech and Language Therapist, Royal Hospital for Neurodisability, Putney. 

14:45 – 15:30 The effectiveness and safety of botulinum toxin treatment for sialorrhea due to severe brain injury Teresa Clark, Consultant Physiotherapist, Royal Hospital for Neurodisability, Putney. 

15:30 – 15:50 Tea & networking

15:50 – 16:35 Antiseizure Medication Use for People in PDOC - A Retrospective Cohort Analysis Through the Patient Pathway Dr Lloyd Bradley, Consultant in Neurorehabilitation, Royal Hospital for Neurodisability, Putney. 

16:35 – 17:10 Challenges in Commissioning Rehabilitation and Long-Term Care for people in PDOC and challenges faced during the CANH process. Meghan O’ Brien, Interim Safeguarding Project Manager, NHS North Central London (NCL) Integrated Care Board (ICB) NHS North Central London (NCL) Integrated Care Board (ICB) and Claudia Hobden Associate Director for CHC, NHS West and North London ICB.

Day 2: 24th June Wednesday
 

09:00 – 09:30 Registration

09:30 – 10:15 Long term outcomes in PDOC – Case studies of late recovery in DOC. Dr Judith Allanson, Consultant in Neurorehabilitation, Royal Hospital for Neurodisability, Putney, Visitor, University dept of Anaesthetics, University of Cambridge.

10:15 – 11:00 Challenges faced by families of people with severe brain injuries - How can professionals help? Joanne Clark, Advanced Occupational Therapist - Critical Care, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

11:00 – 11:20 Coffee

11:20 – 12:05 How to manage complications in people with complex neurodisabilities – strategies and challenges in early and late management Prof Anand Pandyan, Interim Dean for the Faculty of Education, Health and Wellbeing, University of Wolverhampton.

12:05 – 12:45 What should be on offer: physical and postural management in Disorders of Consciousness (DOC) Dr Stephen Ashford PhD, FCSP, FACPIN. Consultant Physiotherapist and MSK Sonographer (Regional Hyper-acute Rehabilitation Unit)

12:45 – 14:00 Lunch & Networking

14:00 – 14:45 PDOC Community Outreach services in Wales; Learning from experiences in a specialist centre. Georgina Jones, AHP Lead for Prolonged Disorders of Consciousness, Llandough Centre for Specialist Spinal and Neuro Rehabilitation, Cardiff & Vale University Health Board. 

14:45 – 15:15 Perspectives of hospice staff caring for patients with prolonged disorders of consciousness following discontinuation of clinically assisted nutrition and hydration? A qualitative descriptive study. Natalie Priest, Band 7 Occupational Therapist, Llandough Centre for Specialist Spinal and Neuro Rehabilitation, Cardiff & Vale University Health Board

15:15 Tea

15:15 – 16:00 Managing autonomic Storming in people with severe brain injuries and Disorders of Consciousness - Dr Fahim Anwar, Consultant in Rehabilitation Medicine. Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge.

16:00 – 17:00 Virtual session - Cryoneurolysis in the management of spasticity in people with severe brain injuries and non-communicating patients. Prof Paul Winston, University of British Columbia, Canada

Contact viji@hoperehab.co.uk to register interest or an application form

Safeguarding  - half day for HCAs and Nurses

Care planning - half day for HCAs and Nurses

24-hr posture management - half day  for HCAs, Nurses and therapists 

Spasticity management - half day Therapists 

Splinting - half day for therapists 

Mental capacity act - half day for HCAs and Nurses

Withdrawing of treatment in people with complex neuro disabilities - half day - HCAs, Nurses and Therapists 

Acquired Brain injury - half day HCAs, Nurses and therapists 

Disorder of consciousness - half day for HCAs, Nurses and therapists 

Introduction to brain injury and complex neuro disability - 2 day course for band 5/6 therapists and clinicians - November 2024

Past courses/ Study day 

Spasticity management workshop for clinicians - 27th January 2024 - Completed successfully

An informal study day for Doctors, physiotherapists and clinicians working with people with spasticity. 

Our clinical supervisors facilitate Journal Clubs and Complex case discussions using an evidence based approach, related to pre-agreed clinical topics.  We offer clinical supervision sessions for physiotherapists, occupational therapists, nurses, health care assistants working with people with neurological conditions (Stroke, Parkinsons, brain injuries, Spinal cord injuries etc), complex neurodisabilities. These sessions can be provided in your work place on a 1-2-1 or for small groups. 

If your would like us to present a customised course or a workshop to suit your team's needs, We will be happy to discuss this with you. please get in touch.