2012
The 7th UK Stroke Forum Conference took place on 4 to 6 December 2012, at the Harrogate International Centre, North Yorkshire, England.
All selected abstracts from the conference were published in The International Journal of Stroke - you can download a free copy here.
2012 Speaker Presentations
Conference presentations can be viewed below and are listed in session order. Presentations are only available where speakers have given permission to have these published on the UKSF website. Unfortunately the UKSF is not able to provide hard copies of slides.
Training Day - Tuesday 4 December
BASP
NSNF/SSNF
- Professor Robert Teasell - Understanding the complexities of stroke rehabilitation
- Dr Elizabeth Boaden - Improving the management of swallowing difficulties
- Dr Jane Williams - Improving the quality of care through ensuring/developing careers in stroke nursing
- Dr Bernard Gibbons - Enhancing stroke care through nursing graduate education: an opportunity
- Dr Louise Connell - Developing a health research career
- Professor Pip Logan - Getting out of the house after stroke
- Dr Kate Radford - Improving the assessment and management of driving after stroke
MDT Rehabilitation
- Carole Pound and Jasvinder Khosa - Hanging out with and hanging onto friends: strategies for sustaining and developing friendships after stroke and aphasia
- Dr Caroine Ellis-Hill - Who do I want to be? Exploring sense of self and gaining self confidence after stroke
- Dr Sara Demain - Beyond therapy discharge– self referral, self-management or fending for yourself
- Robin Cant - Self tweaking following stroke: an insider's perspective
NHS Stroke Improvement Programme
- Sarah Gillham - Diagnosing - Assessing the health of your service
- Jill Lockhart and Ian Golton - How demand and capacity work can help develop teams
- Damian Jenkinson - Managing: ensuring productive processes
Wednesday 5 December
BASP - Trainee Abstract Presentations
- Dr Benjamin Bray - Stroke thrombolysis as part of routine care in elderly patients in England: practice and outcome in an observational study
- Chris Moran - Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and cognition
- Dr Patricia Fearon - Stroke unit care in a real life setting: a case control study
- Dr Reecha Sofat - Estimating requirements for endovascular services for stroke
Cognitive Workshop
Nursing Breakfast Session
Plenary 1 - Preventing Recurrent Stroke: Non-Pharmacological and Pharmacological Manipulation
- Dr Maggie Lawrence - Lifestyle interventions in the secondary prevention of stroke
- Professor Philip Bath - Classical risk factors and their management in the secondary prevention of stroke
Parallel 1A - Management of Stroke in the Hyperacute Phase
- Dr Rustam Al-Shahi Salman - What hope for the acute treatment of intracerebral haemorrhage?
- Dr H. Bart van der Worp - Hypothermia for acute ischaemic stroke
Parallel 1B - Original Scientific Abstracts
- Philip Benjamin - Cognitive impairment in Symptomatic Cerebral Small Vessel Disease: results from the SCANS study
- Dr David Rigby - Continuous case-by-case audit to optimise thrombolysis door to needle time
- Dr Andreas Charidimou - Enlarged perivascular spaces as a marker of underlying arteriopathy in intracerebral haemorrhage
Parallel 1C - Childhood Stroke Outcome and Recovery
Parallel 1D - Implementing Evidence in Stroke Care
- Dr Sarah Dean - Do we implement while we wait for the evidence? The development of a clinical trial for a complex rehabilitation intervention for long term stroke survivors
- Madeleine Harrison - Improving stroke unit quality based on staff and service user experience using a knowledge exchange framework
- Katy Rothwell and Gill Pearl - Patients as partners: developing the easy access toolkit
Parallel 1E - Intensity of Therapy after Stroke
- Professor Avril Drummond - Why set a target of 45 minutes of therapy?
- Dr Emma Cooke - How do we keep people involved and active on a stroke unit?
- Julie Morris and David Howard - Speech and language therapy for aphasia after stroke: a review of the effects of intensity, duration and scheduling
Parallel 2A - Mulitidisciplinary Assessment in Stroke Care
- Dr Sarah Pendlebury - Cognition after stroke
- Professor Peter Langhome - Acute physiological assessment
Parallel 2B - Original Scientific Abstracts - Rehabilitation
- Bridget St George - Communication after stroke: a top research priority for stroke survivors
- Christine Cobley - Patients and carers experiences of ESD services: a qualitative study
- Jules Jeffreys - Early Supported Discharge: Realising the Patient and Process outcomes predicted from the 2009 Cochrane Review
- Dr Jacqui Morris - Motivation, capability and volition: Influences on stroke survivors’ decisions to engage in physical activity
- Dr Paul Fitzsimmons - Stroke trial participant information sheets are excessively difficult to read
Parallel 2C - Rehabilitation Beyond the Acute Healthcare Setting
- Professor Pip Logan - Getting out of the house after a stroke
- Professor Avril Drummond - Is there any value in conducting home visits? Results from the HOVIS Home Visits after Stroke trial
- Dr Frederike van Wijck - Enhancing physical activity participation after stroke: what are the issues?
- Philip Whitehead - Pre-discharge occupational therapy home visits for patients with a stroke: results of a feasibility randomised controlled trial (RCT)
Parallel 2D - Vision and Visual Symptoms
- Dr Alex Leff - Web-based therapy for reading difficulty due to hemianopia
- Dr Audrey Bowen - Unilateral spatial neglect: an appraisal of the assessment and treatment options
Parallel 2E - Quality Improvement
- Dr Damian Jenkinson - Maintaining momentum in stroke: will the cardiovascular outcomes strategy help?
- Professor Pippa Tyrrell - National Clinical Guidelines for Stroke 2012
- Sara Kavanagh - Measuring the quality of stroke care in the community
- James Campbell - SSNAP Launch (Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme)
- Dr Martin James - The role of peer review of stroke services
Thursday 6 December
Parallel 3A - Carotid Intervention
- Dr Trevor Cleveland - Advances in carotid stenting
- Professor Alison Halliday - Carotid intervention: the vascular surgeon’s perspective
- Professor Martin Brown - Stenting, surgery or no intervention: the stroke neurologist’s perspective
Parallel 3B - Late Breaking Abstracts
- Dr Lois Thomas - ICONS: Identifying Continence OptioNs after Stroke trial Preliminary findings
- Professor Catherine Mackenzie - Are tongue and lip exercises beneficial for post-stroke dysarthria?
- Dr Sandeep Ankolekar - Rapid Intervention with Glyceryl trinitrate (GTN) in Hypertensive stroke Trial (RIGHT): Potential of ambulance trials in ultra-acute stroke
- Alison McLoughlin - ASTUTE: Acute Stroke Telemedicine: Utility, Training and Evaluation
Parallel 3C - Four Nations - Stroke Improvement Programme
- Andrew Jones - Transitional, on-going & follow-up support: working together in Wales
- Dr Brid Farrell - Northern Ireland
- Dr Damian Jenkinson and Ian Golton - Improving stroke services in England
- Maddy Halliday - Life after stroke support in Scotland (with notes) -
- Maddy plans to prepare an article on this presentation, keep checking the website to find out when this has been published.
Parallel 3D - Technology and Rehabilitation
- Professor Ian Swain - The ATRAS Project
- Dr Barbara Rosario - Aphasia & transcranial magnetic stimulation
- Jon Hunt, with Simon and Lesley Benneworth - Remote access to aphasia therapy through use of computer software and Telehealth
Parallel 3E - Commissioning Stroke Care
- Chris Clark - Stroke and commissioning: informal survey of CCGs 2012
- Pam Green - Effective and innovative commissioning across the stroke pathway – examples and ‘top tips’ from England’s stroke services
Parallel 4B - Original Scientific Abstracts
- Dr Rebecca Fisher - A consensus on the implementation of community stroke services
- Dr Terry Quinn - Reliability of the Barthel Index as a stroke assessment systematic review and meta-analysis
- Professor Gillian Mead - Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors for stroke recovery: A Cochrane Systematic Review
- Sarah Macfarlane - Optimising long-term engagement in physical activity After stroke
Parallel 4C - Gait Rehabilitation - MEasurement and Current Research
- Professor Stefan Hesse - Equipment-based gait rehabilitation: a German perspective
- Professor Sarah Tyson - Measuring gait and mobility in clinical practice: theory and reality
Parallel 4D - Supporting Self Management: a Service User Perspective
Parallel 4E - Nutrition in the Presence of Dysphagia
- Dr Jessica Beavan - The trials of nasogastric tube feeding
- Dr Anushka Warusevitane - Does metoclopramide reduce pnemonia in acute stroke patients on nasogastric feeds?
Plenary 3 - Implementing Evidence into Practice