Case management
08:45 - 09:15 Registration, tea/coffee, networking & exhibition stands
09:15 - 09:20 Welcome from the sponsor
09:20 – 09:25 Welcome from the conference Chair Christopher Wilson Smith KC, Outer Temple Chambers
09:25 – 09:45 Managing crisis takes a village, our data is our predictor
Predict the unpredictability, today is acknowledging that we all play a part in predicting what our clients are likely to need and the associated costs for the rest of their lives. We are now 30 years young with case management in the UK, and we are finally starting to see new trends and opportunity to gather data on what works, what’s new, and what we missed or what we would never have predicted. Drivers such as evidence-based practice, clinical excellence and reflective practice are ensuring that we are able to identify crises related and high risks, lifestyle choices, decisions and exposures for our clients. Managing crisis takes a village………we now have the privilege of hindsight, let’s not waste it!
Maggie Sargent, Founder of CCMS & Catastrophic Injury Case Manager and Nikki Hopkins, Operations Manager & Case Manager, CCMS
09:45 – 10:30 Hitting the Milestones The specialists said at the hospital “I am sorry Mrs D, your son will never independently walk or talk again from this injury” In the presentation Dr Dimitrios Sampanis will explore a client’s journey post injury, reaching various milestones despite the obstacles faced, and will give delegates insight into approaching rehabilitation in a meaningful way led by the client.
Dr Dimitrios Sampanis, Clinical Director, Home Rehab Therapists Ltd & Highly Specialist Neuro Physiotherapist, Associate Professor, St Mary’s University
10:30 – 11:00 Hydrotherapy?? But M has a tracheostomy!!
By sharing case studies including tracheostomy and PEG fed patients and using national guidelines this session will discuss a number of different patient journeys with water-based activities. The cost for hydrotherapy intervention, hydro pools and ongoing intervention costs. Looking for a checklist to support hydrotherapy for your clients? What to consider, how to risk assess the impact on the client? Then this is not to be missed!
Sarah Cox, Chartered Physiotherapist, Fresh Physio
11:00 – 11:30 Tea/coffee, networking & exhibition stands 11:30 – 11:50 Managing Relationship Risk in the Community
This talk will highlight the significant dimension of relationships with others (friends, family, romantic partners) and the impact of such on community activities and rehabilitation goals. I will present a case of an adult survivor of childhood brain injury, whose relationship patterns have been historically characterised by risk of exploitation and harm. These patterns were mapped out with the client and then shared with her family and team to support her in negotiating new relationships and widen opportunities for enriching community participation.
Dr Giles Yeates, Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist & Couples Therapist, Rippling Minds
11:50 – 12:20 Parenting after brain injury: challenges & (missed) opportunities?
Becoming a parent is one of the most valued societal roles, yet people with brain injuries often face huge challenges navigating this aspect of life. The presenter will discuss the issues that brain injured people face when they want to become parents, the types of intervention they require and how rehabilitation teams, case managers and legal teams can work together to support them.
Speaker TBC
12:20 – 12:45 Lessons learned from 25 years of litigation: Reflections from the courtroom
William Latimer-Sayer KC, Cloisters
12:45 – 13:45 Lunch, networking & exhibition stands 13:45 - 13:50 Welcome back from the Chair
Chris Melton KC, Byrom Street Chambers
13:50 – 14:35 “To Travel is to Live"
The presentation will focus on a case study of a complex spinal cord injured patient with category 4 pressure ulceration. Prior to his injury, he travelled regularly across Europe to his second home in Portugal where he is from and where he still has lots of family. The session will focus on how this aspect of his life was of the utmost importance to him and how he could and should be enabled to continue to pursue this aspect of his life despite his life-changing injuries and a chronic category 4 pressure ulcer.
Cathie Bree-Aslan, Independent Tissue Viability Nurse & Expert Witness, Director & Head of Clinical Services at Wound Consultancy Ltd and Nurse Expert Witness Ltd
14:35 – 15:15 The Litmus Test
Travelling promotes independence, how do we as case managers support our clients on holidays and predict the unpredictability?
Nicola Cale, Practitioner Case Manager, CCMS
15:15 – 15:45 Tea/coffee, networking & exhibition stands 15:45 – 16:30 Borderline Personality Disorder and brain injury: the hidden challenge
A not so hidden disorder and the impact on clients with brain injury. There is a growing realisation and increasing data to show a correlation between marked emotional reactivity, severe difficulties maintaining interpersonal relationships and substantial costs to the individual, their family, and society.
Dr Alan Gray, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Headwise
16:30 – 17:05 Counting the cost: Litigation and deputyship
Tracy will expand on the key areas and themes of the day, and tie this in with the challenges the Deputy faces when meeting clients’ needs over a lifetime, especially those who are more than 10-, 20- or 30-years post injury. Tracy will detail what the Deputy needs of the case manager, MDT and provide an overview on how we make this work now with reducing funds, or a very tight budget, and what we could be thinking about much earlier on within the litigation stage of intervention to meet much longer term needs of our clients.
Tracy Norris Evans, Partner, RWK Goodman
17:05 – 17:15 Conference close
This session will bring together the themes from the day and look to what is next? We will explore what funding is available in order to action the ideas discussed today. This session is also an opportunity for reflection based on evidence.
Maggie Sargent, Founder of CCMS & Catastrophic Injury Case Manager
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