2006 UKSF Conference
The first UK Stroke Forum Conference took place on 7 and 8 December 2006 at Harrogate International Centre.
The event attracted over 1,000 delegates and saw presentations from around 70 UK and international speakers, on a variety of issues spanning stroke care, research and policy.
You can download the book of abstracts which gives all oral and poster abstracts presented at the 2006 UK Stroke Forum Conference.
The following presentations have been made available with permission from their authors. Further presentations may be made available on this site as soon as we receive approval by speakers.
We regret that hard copies of these presentations are not available from the UK Stroke Forum.
Thursday 7 December 2006
Plenary 1: Update on the work of the UK Stroke Research Network
Primary care and stroke research (302 kb) ![[ppt]](http://www.stroke.org.uk/display_images/document_icons/ppt.gif)
- Dr Jonathan Mant, Associate Director: Community/Primary Care, UKSRN
Translational strategy (1556 kb) - Professor Alastair Buchan, Associate Director: Translational Research, UKSRN
Plenary 2: Making research relevant
Making research relevant: from good research to good practice (1747 kb) - Professor Charles Warlow, Professor of Medical Neurology, Western General Hospital
Parallel session 1C: Support for improving clinical practice and palliative care
How physiotherapists discharge people with stroke (243 kb) - Sara Demain, School of Health Professions and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Southampton
Parallel session 1D: Clinical management of swallowing and communication
The development and validation of a functional outcome measure for communication problems following stroke (672 kb) - Dr Anne Hesketh, School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester
Parallel session 2C: Cognitive and visual problems following stroke: assessment and intervention
Visual dysfunction following stroke: benefits of orthoptic input into stroke care (2871 kb) - Sonia Macdiarmid, Deputy Head Orthoptist, Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Trust
Visual restoration therapy in patients with retro-chiasmatic visual pathway lesions (2761 kb) - Professor Henning Mast, Clinical Associate Professor in Stroke Medicine, University of Nottingham
Friday 8 December 2006
Parallel session 3A: Early supported transfer of care
The practicalities of developing and delivering effective early supported transfer of care (138 kb) - Dr Jane Williams, Consultant Nurse in Stroke Care, Portsmouth Stroke Services & Chair of the National Stroke Nursing Forum
Outcomes of a community-based stroke rehabilitation service (1375 kb) - Anna Dunkerley, Lead Physiotherapist, Community Stroke Team, Guildford and Waverley NHS Primary Care Trust
Parallel session 3B: BASP session
Inflammatory markers and short-term prognosis after TIA and minor stroke (367 kb) - Dr Johann Selvarajah, Clinical Research Fellow, Faculty of Medicine and Human Sciences, University of Manchester
Parallel session 3D: Advances in the neurophysiology and clinical management of swallowing
A trial of pharyngeal electrcal stimuation for the treatment of dysphagia post stroke (2586 kb) - Salil Singh, Clinical Research Fellow, University of Manchester
