Joint MND Education Day

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Motor Neurone Disease Education Day

Practical Implementation of the NICE Guidelines – Approaches to Symptom Management

Programme:

8:30 – Registration & refreshments
9:00 – Welcome / Opening Video / Introduction
(Anthony Hanratty – MND Nurse Specialist)
9:15 – Introduction to MND
(Dr Janine Evans – Consultant Neurologist)
10-00 – Early Intervention in the Community
(Jill Ellerton – MND Community Outreach Practitioner)
10:15 – Respiratory Red Flags
(TBC)
11:00 – Refreshment break
11:20 – Myth Busting Palliative Care
(Dr Sundar Balasubramanian)
12:05 – A Personal Story
Person living with MND
12: 15 – Lunch / Networking / Exhibits 13:10 – Supporting the Family
(Dove House Hospice – Family Support)
13:50 – Parallel Sessions 1 –
1) Saliva Management
2) Communication – Voice Banking
3) Nutrition – PEG
4) Wheelchairs
5) Environmental Controls
6) Intimacy in MND
7) Hypnosis 14:30 – Refreshment Break 14:50 – Parallel Sessions 2 – 15:30 – Comfort Break
15:40 – A collaborative approach to Care
(Newcastle Care Centre)
16:20 – Summary / Video / Close of Day
(Bernie Chapman – MND Nurse Specialist)
Who should attend?

Health & Social Care Professionals

Content:

• An education event to help you understand the practical implications of the NICE Guidelines on
MND and how these will influence practice and management of symptoms, ensuring the best possible
care and support for those affected by MND.
• Models of intervention and symptom
management in the community.
• Choice of parallel sessions to
empower and upskill professionals in aspects of symptom management
• Explore how to co-ordinate care
effectively in collaboration with others.

Thanks to our venue sponsor

Cost: £30
Date: Wednesday 13th
December 2017
Time: 8:30 am registration 9:00 am – 16:45 pm
Location: The Work Place, Aycliffe
Business Park, Newton
Aycliffe, DL5 6AH.

Register at: www.mndassociation.org/pin12 (until November 17th 2017)