From Critical Care to Community
- Community
- Neuropsychology
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The Division of Neuropsychology-Scotland's (DoN-S) annual Continuing Professional Development (CPD) event will this year focus on the patient journey from acute hospital setting to community rehabilitation.
On the acute side we have Dr. Zoë Tieges, from the Edinburgh Delirium Research Group, University of Edinburgh, who is going to talk about delirium and the patient experience.
Following this we have Dr Julie Highfield, Consultant Clinical Psychologist from Cardiff Critical Care Services who will be presenting on the psyche of staff in critical care and acute environment.
Finally in relation to community rehabilitation, we have Dr Rudi Coetzer, Clinical Director of The Disabilities Trust / Honorary Professor, School of Human & Behavioural Sciences, Bangor University & Honorary Clinical Academic at Swansea University, who is going to talk about the long-term neurorehabilitation and care clinical pathway after acquired brain injury.
We hope you will join us for this exciting event.
Registration
Registration is available online only. All rates listed are inclusive of VAT at 20%.
| DON Member | Free of Charge (Limited Availability) |
| BPS Concession | Free of Charge |
| BPS Member | £30 |
| Non-Member | £60 |
Returning Customers (Members and non-members)
In order to register for the event, you will need to sign in using your BPS website log in details. We have implemented a new Membership Database (CRM) recently and if you haven't received your pre-registration email please contact [email protected] to request a re-send and follow the instructions received. Once pre-registered on the CRM use your username and password to log in to register for the event.
Non-returning customers (Members and non-members)
If you are not a returning customer, you will need to create a free account. Once set up use your username and password to log in to register for the event.
Joining instructions will be sent the one week and 24-hours prior to the event, these will be sent to your BPS registered email address.
Programme
| 09.30 - 09.35 | Introduction |
| 09.35 - 10.20 | Dr Zoe Tieges – 'Delirium and the patient experience' |
| 10.25 - 11.10 | Dr Julie Highfield – 'The psyche of staff in critical care and acute environments: Barriers and enablers to psychology and rehabilitation' |
| 11.10 - 11.20 | Short Break |
| 11:25 - 12.10 | Dr Rudi Coetzer – 'The long-term meurore habilitation and care clinical pathway after acquired brain injury' |
| 12.10 | Close |
Speakers
Dr. Zoë Tieges
Research Fellow, Edinburgh Delirium Research Group, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Dr. Zoë Tieges is a Research Fellow in Psychology at the University of Edinburgh and a Lecturer in Data Science at Glasgow Caledonian University. She is a research psychologist by trade, with over 12 years of experience in research into delirium. Her research has focused on the development of novel assessment methods (including software apps) for detecting delirium in the acute hospital, and neuropsychological approaches to improve understanding of the delirium symptom profile. Recent projects include assessing recovery trajectories in delirium in hospital and studies looking at associations between individual symptom domains, such as inattention and altered arousal, with clinical outcomes.
Dr Julie Highfield
Consultant Clinical Psychologist & Lead for Organisational Health in Adult and Paediatric Critical Care, Cardiff. National Project Director for Wellbeing - Intensive Care Society
Julie has a long experience of working as a psychologist in medical and health care settings and works closely with staff in their experience of working in healthcare, as well as advising managers on matters of workforce wellbeing.
She is the Consultant Clinical Psychologist in Adult and Paediatric Critical Care for Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, working clinically with patients, relatives and staff. Julie is the lead for staff wellbeing and organisational health in critical care. From December 2017 – June 2020 she was the Associate Director of Adult Critical Care, giving her a strategic position in the development of the unit.
Since June 2020, Julie became the Intensive Care Society's National Wellbeing Project Director having played a key part in the ICS Wellbeing and Burnout Working Group. She was on the Intensive Care Society Rehabilitation Working Group for COVID-19, and the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine Life after Critical Illness Group.
Julie led the BPS team writing the National Guidance for Staff in the Coronavirus Pandemic and has worked with Welsh Assembly Government on various projects, including as the lead for Critical Care Workforce in the 2018-19 Task and Finish Group, the National Wellbeing Conversation Framework, and Modelling for Rehabilitation for patients post COVID-19.
Dr Rudi Coetzer
Clinical Director – The Disabilites Trust
Rudi Coetzer worked as a Consultant Neuropsychologist & Head of Service in the NHS for 23 years before taking up the role of Clinical Director with The Disabilities Trust during 2021. His academic and clinical interests are in neuropsychological assessment and rehabilitation of adults with acquired brain injury, clinical leadership, and service development.
Contact us
If you have any queries, please contact [email protected].