Posted on: 1 December 2021
On Wednesday 1 December 2021, we hosted our second virtual Therapies Conference for over one thousand therapists and allied health professionals working across the Trust. Throughout the day, 672 therapists joined us.
The theme for this year was clinical effectiveness throughout the lifespan, where we welcomed our AHPs, psychologists and psychotherapists to explore outcome measures, sharing learning of clinical effectiveness, quality improvement, effective team working and student placement experiences.
Watch it back online here (opens link)
Claire Murdoch, CNWL’s Chief Executive, opened the event and said:
“I’m so proud of the work you all do – the hundreds and hundreds of you working across the Trust. The span of specialist care across the life course, settings from prisons, hospitals, clinic and home, is awesome. Life changing care and innovation. Thank you. ”
Our key note speaker, Professor Pamela Enderby, OBE, who specialises in therapy related research with a special emphasis on measuring outcomes, led a discussion entitled Strictly Come Rehabilitation on team working in the current environment and using data effectively.
This was followed by a session from Seun on extending student clinical placements based on positive outcomes for patients and staff.
Milton Keynes Speech and Language Therapy leads, Amanda Bousaki and Nina Soloff then shared their experience of using a whole systems approach to clinical effectiveness.
There were a range of break out presentations during the day too. Staff can find the recordings for those sessions on the therapies Trustnet page from early next week. Look out for the link in the staff bulletin.
The highlight of the day was the annual CNWL Therapies and AHPs awards, presented by Dr Ryan Kemp, Director of Therapies at CNWL, and Chief Nurse, Maria O’Brien.
The biggest award of the day - Therapist of the Year - went to Hannah Howell-Day, who said
“Thank you everyone-this really means the world to me. Congratulations to everyone else too”
The full list of winners and the runners up are below.
| Practice Educator / Student placement supervisor of the Year 2021 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Harkinder Bedi - winner | Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist | Paediatric speech and language therapy Harrow |
| Michael Sharkey - finalist | Specialist Paediatric Physiotherapist | Hillingdon Child Development Centre, Hillingdon, Middlesex |
| Promising Newcomer Award 2021 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Laura Dillon - winner | Cognitive Behaviour Therapist | Community Living Well (Kensington & Chelsea IAPT) |
| Taruna Girdhari -finalist | Speech and language therapist |
Ealing children's speech and language therapy team |
| Support Worker of the Year 2021 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Guinevere Bolton - finalist | Psychological Therapies Administrator | North K&C Mental Health Hub |
| Kat Bowden - winner | Administrator | Waterview Service |
| Innovative Team of the Year 2021 | ||
|---|---|---|
| EOS and Bronzefield MH psychology - finalist | HMP Bronzefield | Health and Justice |
| Community Living Well Talking Therapies (K&C IAPT) - winner | St Charles Health and Wellbeing Centre | Jameson |
| AHP / Therapist of the Year 2021 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Louisa Butler - finalist | Systemic Family Therapist | Health and Wellbeing team, YOI Cookham Wood |
| Hannah Howell-Day - winner | Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist | Ealing Children’s Speech and Language Therapy |