Critical Care ODN Rehabilitation Conference

Friday 12th May 2023 08:45 -16:00
Holiday Inn Hotel, Barnsley (J37, M1)
Barnsley Road, Dodworth, Barnsley, South Yorkshire S75 3JT.
Programme
DIRECTIONS
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Presentations
Session 1 - Critical Care Rehabilitation Workforce Data 
Session 2 - Rehabilitation in critical care: where are we and where do we want to be?
Session 3 - What can Occupational Therapy offer in Critical Care?
Session 4 - Go with the flow: SLT strategies for early rehabilitation for patients with a tracheostomy
Session 5 - Nutrition is critical to rehabilitation
Session 6 - I nearly died… I should feel grateful… Why can’t I remember?
Session 7 - Rehablegend Patient Stories a Catalyst for Change
Session 9 - Implementation of the Critical Care Rehabilitation service at Leeds
Session 10 - Establishment of a virtual follow up clinic and aspirations for a patient platform
Session 11 - Pets as Therapy
Speakers Biography's
Paul Twose is a consultant therapist working with critical care at Cardiff and Vale UHB. He is also an honorary lecturer at the School of Healthcare Science within Cardiff University, the current ACPRC critical care champion and deputy chair of the National Rehabilitation Collaborative.
 
Having graduated in 2005, and completed his MSc in 2013, Paul’s main interests are in workforce development across all therapies. This focuses on the roles and responsibilities undertaken by therapists but also trying to prepare the workforce of the future. This follows on from his work exploring the minimum standards of clinical practice by physiotherapists in critical care, and ongoing work exploring existing services including both qualitative and quantitative studies. His future research will explore how therapy workforce impacts on patient outcomes, and to make more specific assessments of required workforce. His other major interest is within tracheostomy care. He recently received a £400,000 grant from the Cardiff Capital Region to explore innovative ways of delivering education including the use of virtual and augmented reality.
Dr David McWilliams is an Associate Professor and Clinical Academic Physiotherapist at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust and Coventry University's Centre for Care Excellence. He is the chair of the physiotherapy working group for the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, and deputy Chair for the Intensive Care Society National Rehabilitation Collaborative. David was a member of the guideline development group for the NICE guideline ‘Critical Illness rehabilitation’ and subsequent quality standard on the same topic. His research interests are focussed on rehabilitation and recovery following a period of critical illness.
​Kate Tantam is a Specialist Sister in ICU in Plymouth.  Her role is to support patients, loved ones and staff pre and post ICU discharge.  She is a nurse researcher in rehabilitation after critical illness and the founder of the #Rehablegend campaign.   The campaign shares patient stories to share best practice, improve patient experience, support quality improvement and clinical research and raise awareness of the importance of rehabilitation for all.  Her work was recognised with a Parliamentary Award for care and compassion in 2019, National Patient Experience Award in 2019 and recently with an award for patient experience by the Intensive Care society.  Her work during 2020/2021 supporting patients with COVID saw her awarded with a British Empire Medal for services to improve patient experience.  She one of the deputy chairs of the  National Rehabilitation Collaborative and is keen to develop national work to support recovery after ICU.  
​Claire Mills is a Clinical Specialist Speech and Language Therapist in Critical Care at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. She was awarded a National Institute for Health Research Clinical Doctoral Research Fellowship (NIHR CDRF) in 2018, which is being hosted by the University of Leeds. Her CDRF focuses on Above Cuff Vocalisation, an intervention for patients in critical care with a tracheostomy. Other research interests include: post-extubation dysphagia, cough reflex testing, and Fibreoptic Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing. Claire is a committee member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT) Tracheostomy Clinical Excellence Network. She is the Allied Health Professional Trainee representative for the NIHR Critical Care Speciality Group.  
​Cordy Gaubert is a Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist for Critical Care at Bradford Royal Infirmary.  She has worked in this role for the last 14 years, developing and expanding the role of Physiotherapy in Critical Care and building good relationships with the whole MDT. She has an MSc in Respiratory Physiotherapy.  Cordy has particular interest in the rehab of critical care patients, and their ongoing journey of recovery and has worked with the ICU MDT to develop and implement a virtual post-ICU follow-up clinic in the last year.  She also has key involvement in tracheostomy management and weaning on ICU, plus in providing staff training in tracheostomy care for the Trust.
She is current chair of the WYCCN Rehabilitation forum, which brings together AHP’s from across the region to work collaboratively on projects and share knowledge and service development ideas.
​Jenny Leyland is a specialist critical care dietitian and team lead at the Northern General Hospital (NGH), Sheffield. She has 14 years experience as a dietitian in a multitude of roles, with the last 7 years covering critical care. She has previously won both the BAPEN best poster and PENG award for audits looking at nutrition provision on the ICU and the impact of the introduction of a protein supplement.
She is former secretary of the critical care specialist group of the BDA and was chair of the STH critical care rehabilitation group and helped to set up the weekly rehabilitation ward rounds at NGH. She is passionate about critical care nutrition and sharing this knowledge and organised South Yorkshire peer support meetings for dietitians working in critical care pre and during the pandemic. 
Aimee Burton-Draper and Megan Coe work at Barnsley hospital as band 6 Occupational Therapists. Collectively we have over 20 years' experience as qualified Occupational Therapists. We have both worked in a wide variety of settings and have a keen interest in Critical Care rehabilitation. In June 2020, we were released from the acute inpatient Occupational Therapy Team to assist with Covid patients and complete a pilot project of the OT role in Critical Care. The Pilot lasted 18 months, during which a business case was presented to the trust, however, we were deployed back to the inpatient medical team and the business case was not approved.
Rachel Hunsley is a physiotherapist who has been the critical care rehabilitation team leader at LTHT for two 12-month secondments. She has worked as a physiotherapist within LTHT for the past 9 years, working within several teams and with a keen interest in critical care and early rehabilitation.
During her first secondment Rachel was involved in continuing the development of the critical care rehabilitation team at St James’ University Hospital (SJUH), and over time the service expanded to also cover critical care patients at Leeds General Infirmary (LGI).
The team gets involved with patients from the five intensive care units across SJUH and the LGI; working with nursing, medical and therapy teams to provide individualised care based on the patients need. 
The implementation of this team has been a great success at LTHT, reducing length of stay post critical care, improving morbidity at point of discharge, improving patient/relative involvement in treatment plans and reducing post ICU psychological stress.
Natalie Buttery is a specialist nurse in the Critical Care Rehabilitation Team at Leeds Teaching Hospitals. Prior to this she worked as a staff nurse on intensive care at St James Hospital for six years.
 
During her time with the Critical Care Rehabilitation Team, she has been involved in successfully expanding the service cross-site to Leeds General Infirmary. This allowed the team to reach more patients following ICU step-down to support their physiological, psychological and cognitive recovery after critical illness.
 
In addition to seeing patients on the ICUs and wards, the team also supports the running of ICU follow up clinics and has started a post-critical care peer support group for patients in the West Yorkshire region.
Dr Emily Hodgson gained her doctorate in Clinical Psychology at Leeds and for the past five years has been working as a Senior Clinical Psychologist leading the Palliative care psychology pathway at Airedale and supporting the ICU follow-up clinic. Emily has recently taken up a Principal Psychologist position in Stroke but remains passionate about the role for psychology in intensive care and continues to deliver the follow-up clinic and resulting outpatient follow-up.
Sarah Anderson & Maggie  - Prior to Covid Sarah was a Pets as Therapy volunteer at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust in Adult Critical Care for over 2 years with Maggie, a cockapoo who is now 6 yrs old. Since Covid they have visited Yorkshire Ambulance Service call centre at their head office throughout 2022.
Sarah is also a volunteer coordinator for PAT looking after c.330 volunteers and oversee their work at nearly 10 NHS Trusts in the North.
Sarah is also an Intensive Care Society Trustee and has day job as a specialist charity accountant and advisor.