The Department of Health has published rehabilitation measures for the 'Manual for Cancer Services 2008'.
Department of Health website 01/09.
Framing the Contribution of Allied Health Professionals: delivering high-quality healthcare
Document to frame the Next Stage Review for allied health professionals and describe the improved AHP service offer to patients and the public
Department of Health website 02/09.
Treatment across cultures: is there a model?
Core, L
Int J Therapy & Rehabilitation, November 2008, vol./is. 15/11(519-27)
Literature review on the delivery of culturally-sensitive care, from a physical therapy perspective. Issues identified as influencing the rehabilitation of culturally and linguistically diverse patients are explored, including communication and trust, values and beliefs, cultural problems involving tests, returning to work and the cross-cultural education of professionals. A model of cultural care for health-care providers is proposed. 39 refs.
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BNI database 02/09.
Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists:
Partners in Progress: Spreading the Word.
Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, Westminster, London on Tuesday 17th and Wednesday 18th March 2009.
Book your place today for the UK's premier professional forum for the speech and language therapy profession and save money. The theme of Partners in progress: spreading the word is sharing ways to improve working with communication and swallowing problems through clinical development and research.
The 2009 RCSLT Scientific Conference will provide an interactive forum for practitioners, researchers and educationalists from speech and language therapy and related disciplines.
RCSLT website 02/09.
Self-referral pilots to musculoskeletal physiotherapy and the implications for improving access to other AHP services
Report of work to explore the impact of opening up access to musculoskeletal physiotherapy through self-referral where it had not previously been part of usual service provision. The report also considers the implications for access to other allied health professions services. Findings highlight benefits to patients and services.
Department of Health website 02/09.
The College of Occupational Therapists: 33rd Annual Conference
on 23rd -26th June 2009 at The Brighton Centre, Brighton.
Four conferences for the price of one including three Specialist Sections' Annual Conferences:
HIV/AIDS,Oncology, Palliative Care
Older People
People with Learning Disabilities
College of Occupational Therapists website 02/09.
BDA endorse report findings on malnutrition:
The British Dietetic Association, endorsed the findings of a new report - Combating Malnutrition: Recommendations for Action, following the culmination of work undertaken by a group of experts in malnutrition. The Report reveals that three million people are living at risk of malnutrition in the UK, with the cost of the condition now estimated to be £13 billion every year. It also puts forward 25 actions that the Government needs to take to address the problem of malnutrition.
BDA website 02/09.
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