Morning session: The Manual Handling session is designed to help Delegates develop their own strategies and controls for the Manual Handling risks they, their employees, and their patients face in their practices. It is NOT an update on patient handling techniques.

Biography: Pam Simpson qualified as a Chartered Physiotherapist in 1980. After 5 years working in the National Health Service, she moved into private practice where she predominantly treated patients with musculoskeletal disorders and developed a particular interest in back pain and issues around ergonomics and improved risk management. Pam subsequently became and specialised as a Freelance Moving and Handling Trainer and Consultant. She now organises bespoke training courses for the private sector (mainly nursing and residential homes and private care agencies); advises The Commission for Social Care Inspection and Social Services Contracts Departments; acts as an expert witness in personal injury litigation involving moving and handling issues. Pam also works as a trainer and consultant for an Education Authority and runs courses for all staff including caretakers, administration staff and support workers. Pam now employs a team of professional trainers.

Afternoon Session: CPR training aims to provide participants with the knowledge and skills to deal with a deteriorating adult, incorporating scenarios for anaphylactic shock, asthma attacks, severe bleeding, chest pain, choking, complications with pregnancy, and the adult in full cardiac arrest. This session has been adapted to include a section on paediatric basic life support and how to deal with the choking child.

Biography: Sarah Allaway trained as a Registered General Nurse in the Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps. She remained with the Corps for 13 years during which time she specialised in Critical Care and Resuscitation, taking her skills to some remote and challenging destinations. Having left the military in 2002, Sarah continued to pursue a career in Critical Care with a strong teaching focus; currently working as the Lead for the Critical Care Outreach Team at the Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Within this role, Sarah leads a team which provides education, practical guidance and support in the management of the acutely unwell adult. Throughout her career, Sarah has been actively involved with resuscitation training in her role as an Advanced Life Support Instructor with the Resuscitation Council (UK).

Biography: Chris Lewis is a highly trained, dedicated and successful development trainer with over a decade’s experience in training and team dynamics. Chris is a former member of the Royal Air Force development training team based at the Defence College of Aeronautical Engineering in Shropshire. At the college he was responsible for delivering cross-spectrum training to delegates from senior executive to junior engineer level. The majority of this training involved leadership, management, coaching and mentoring, high performance team development, and conflict management. Chris was selected for the college’s “Behaviour and Performance Development” team, responsible for mentoring training, the advanced instructional techniques course and the MODs train-the-trainer courses. Following his success at the College, Chris was then selected for the RAF’s Community Outreach Team where he worked as a motivational speaker and lead trainer across the North West, North Wales and Cheshire. Chris is experienced and qualified in many fields which include: Performance Coaching, Life Coaching, Management Coaching and Mentoring, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Belbin® Team Roles, Transactional Analysis and has numerous Adventure Training qualifications. Chris is a also a Certificated Practitioner of the Strength Deployment Inventory.
 

Biography: Reginald D’Souza works in both private practice and part-time in an NHS Pain Clinic as a Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist. In the Pain Clinic he delivers acupuncture for chronic intractable pain conditions and supervises other Physiotherapists and Specialist nursing sisters. He has also worked as an extended scope practitioner where he was part of the triage assessment of complex back pain. In 1993 he completed a Bachelor of Philosophy in Complementary Health Studies at the University of Exeter. Reg used his research dissertation opportunity to study acupuncture in the treatment of Pain clinic patients with chronic low back pain. He also lectures widely to both medical students and Physiotherapists.

Biography: Tom Kennedy initially trained at Charing Cross Medical School and spent time in general medicine and paediatrics. After taking up his first consultant post in 1988 at Wirral Hospitals NHS Trust in acute medicine and rheumatology, Tom was appointed the first clinical rector of rehabilitation and rheumatology. In 1994, he became the first director of the Wirral Clinical practice research unit and was appointed Post Graduate Tutor. The focus of Tom’s career has been to improve patient’s knowledge of their disease. To this end he began the Path.Finder consortium where patient information is shared between primary and secondary care and also made available directly to patients. This project was taken up by 14 UK Trusts and he now edits the very popular booklets produced by the ARC. In 2004 he was appointed Consultant in Acute Medicine and Rheumatology at the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospital and was appointed Sub-clinical Dean for the undergraduate students whilst in 2007, he was appointed Director of Clinical Studies for Liverpool University School of Medical Education, where he is responsible for the clinical undergraduate training programme.

Biography: Jon Wigley has 30 years of successful business experience, and since 2003 has been working as a business coach, one of his clients being Physio First. He has enjoyed a long career in the global sports marketing and media industry with a focus on the selling and servicing of multi-million pounds commercial rights, management of the commercial servicing companies, and the staging of numerous, quality international sports events all around the world. These activities have brought Jon into working relationships with many of the worlds‘ leading brands, and have required considerable time to be spent in key areas to include Strategy & Implementation; Marketing, Sales & Delivery; Media/PR management; Team/Personnel management and Governance & Cultural management. He currently provides business coaching support to a number of SMEs (Small/Medium sized Enterprises) throughout the UK and Europe, representing a wide cross-section of industries to include Technology, Media, Entertainment, Financial, Legal and Health Services.

Biography: Paul Donnelly is the General Secretary of Physio First and brings a broad perspective of how the private practitioner sector is developing and in helping Physio First to shape itself as a business. Together with the Executive Committee of Physio First, he examines the private practitioner sector from the perspective of Private Medical Insurers, Self Payers, Commercial Intermediaries and 3rd Party Insurers and engages with each sector on behalf of Physio First Members. In addition, he advises the Physio First Executive Committee and individual members about business, legal and strategic issues and as a result has acquired unique sector experience that is probably available nowhere else. Paul has the added experience of having managed and developed his own successful business as a Personal Injury Solicitor before becoming involved in Physio First.