NSNF Conference Newsletter

UK Stroke Forum Conference 2nd - 4th Dec

The NSNF is getting ready to be at the UK Stroke Forum conference in Harrogate next week. Come and visit our stand in Hall H, and our Annual General Meeting is on Tuesday 2nd December at 5pm. Come and see how we have been representing stroke nursing over the last year, and our plans for the next year. We will be lauching a new project 'National Conversation'.... watch this space!

New electronic resource - the South Yorkshire Dysphagia Toolkit

This online, interprofessional Dysphagia Toolkit is the result of several years of work carried out through CLARHC-funded service-improvement projects in Sheffield Teaching Hospitals.

The Toolkit offers a compendium of practical resources and information to support educators/trainers in delivering training sessions and to promote dysphagia as a patient safety issue. 

 There are three main sections. Each starts with a detailed contents page, which also indicates the document format. Some are in Microsoft Word or PowerPoint format so that they can be amended/customised to suit a range of purposes. The sections are: · 

• Background to the development and testing of the Toolkit; the Inter-Professional Dysphagia Framework; Skills for Health and Training Needs Analysis ·
• Resources for trainers to deliver Awareness and Assistant Dysphagia Practitioner training; information about the other levels of the Framework and tips for trainers · 
• Information resources for all about quality of life, nutrition, hydration, alternative forms of feeding, aspiration, administering medicines and mouth care

The Toolkit can be freely accessed directly from: www.dysphagiatoolkit.nihr.ac.uk

Book early to avoid disappointment

Programme for Conference 1st May 2014

Portsmouth Hospital Trust Stroke Service is celebrating its 20th anniversary

Andrew Marr talks Stroke on the Jonathan Ross show!

For those that missed it, here is Jonathan Ross's interview with Andrew Marr on post stroke recovery and the need for more therapy.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQMQ3WZZ31M

Win a FREE place to this year's UK Stroke Forum Conference

 

We would really like to know about education and training opportunities that there are in your service so for a chance to win a FREE place at this year’s UK Stroke Forum Conference, please complete a few simple questions by clicking the link below:

 

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/JDS7RBG

 

The survey will close on 28 February 2014.

 

Thank you for your time.

 

UK Stroke Forum Team