About this Event
Restoring Futures: The Value of Rehabilitation After Brain Injury
Join us in person for Insight into the latest national evidence and guidance on brain injury rehabilitation and perspectives on driving change within real-world system constraints. Practical examples of integrated, patient-centred rehabilitation in action and the lived experience of patient-led rehabilitation and its impact on outcomes. Opportunities for discussion, collaboration and shared learning as well as a self tour of Icanho centre and therapy demonstrations
Refreshments and light lunch included.
This event is kindly sponsored by Fletchers.
Agenda
🕑: 09:00 AM - 09:30 AM
Registration - refreshments and self tour
🕑: 09:30 AM - 09:40 AM
Welcome and start of speaker session
🕑: 09:40 AM - 10:20 AM
'Right to Rehab' discussing the APPG and UKABIF 2025 report findings
Host: Dr Alyson Norman
Info: This presentation will outline the Right to Rehab report’s findings on the cost, commissioning, and system impact of inequitable access to specialist brain injury rehabilitation, and the financial case for investment in timely, specialist rehabilitation services.
🕑: 10:20 AM - 11:00 AM
The New Nice Guidelines published October 2025
Host: Dr Mark Holloway
Info: This session will introduce the new NICE guidance on rehabilitation for people living with chronic neurological conditions, including acquired brain injury. We will explore the implications for clinical practice, service design, and commissioning, and discuss how the guidance supports long-term, person-centred rehabilitation, participation, and quality of life across health and social care systems.
🕑: 11:00 AM
Break and Self tour
🕑: 11:40 AM - 12:20 PM
Working Together - Driving change within a fixed financial envelope
Host: Amanda Cousins
Info: Working Together - Just do it! - Discussing practical ideas to drive change through collaboration
🕑: 12:20 PM - 01:20 PM
Lunch and self tour
🕑: 01:20 PM - 02:10 PM
Case Examples of Integrated Working in ABI Rehabilitation
Host: Icanho clinicans, clients and carers
🕑: 02:10 PM - 03:00 PM
“Outcomes That Count: Proving the Value of Stroke Rehabilitation
Info: Charlie will lead a participatory workshop on 'Outcomes That Count: Proving the Value of Stroke Rehab and potential for wider impact'
🕑: 03:00 PM - 03:15 PM
Break
🕑: 03:15 PM - 03:55 PM
The Importance of Community Connections
Host: Dr Fergus Gracey
Info: Fergus will speak about the importance of sustaining social and community connections after sustaining an ABI and the latest research he is actively involved in.
🕑: 03:55 PM - 04:00 PM
Closing remarks
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Livability Icanho, Chilton Way, Stowmarket, United Kingdom
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