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LEARNING ZONE
need to learn more about interpreting,
reporting and documenting AMPS results
is needed. These two separate but linked
follow-up workshops are intended to fill
this gap and also provide an opportunity
for occupational therapists to work
through the interpretation and
documentation process using the AMPS
reports and documentation from one of
their own clients as their case study. CPD
Certificate of attendance awarded: 12 hrs.
Venue: London Road Community
Hospital, Derby. Cost: £270. Other date:
25 September 2019. Visit: www.ncore.
org.uk or email: [e-mail]
24 – 28 JUNE 2019
Essential skills for contemporary
occupational therapy practice:
Children and Young People
Facilitated by Carolyn Dunford and Benita
Powrie, this five-day study event is
suitable for any occupational therapist
who wishes to update their knowledge
and skills in relation to evidence based,
occupation centred practice with children
and young people. Venue: Leeds Beckett
University, City Campus Leeds West
Yorkshire LS1 3HE. Cost: Member £650;
RCOTSS –CYPF member £600; non-
member: £1,050. Visit: www.rcot.co.uk/
essentialskills
26 JUNE 2019
Advanced course: Therapy
management of Parkinson’s
NCORE
each of the four stages of Parkinson’s –
diagnosis, maintenance, complex and
palliative, with emphasis on the latter two
stages. Motor and non-motor symptoms
will be covered and principles of
therapeutic management will be followed
by individual discipline workshops. Each
session will be led by a clinical specialist in
the field of Parkinson’s. Venue: Royal
Derby Hospital, Derby. Cost: £130. Visit:
www.ncore.org.uk or email: dhft.ncore@
nhs.net
27 AND 28 JUNE 2019
The 7th annual upper limb
neurorehabilitation course.
Treating patients with upper limb
deficit: Integrating research into
practice
UCLP Centre for Neurorehabilitation
and the National Hospital for
Neurology and Neurosurgery
This two-day course provides an up-to-
date overview of current research in
treatment and rehabilitation options for the
neurological patient with upper limb deficit.
The course looks at the practical, real-life
translation of scientific evidence into
clinical practice and discusses the
ingredients that make an upper limb
therapy effective. Delegates will have the
opportunity to trial novel devices. Venue:
Clinical Neurosciences Centre, 33 Queen
Square, London, WC1N 3BG. Cost:
£295. Visit: www.uclhcharitycourses.com
or email: [e-mail]
8 – 12 JULY 2019
Assessment of Motor and Process
Skills
NCORE
The five-day training workshop provides
critical information related to the theoretical
basis of the AMPS as well as experiential
learning of administering and scoring AMPS
evaluations. Participants obtain valuable,
hands-on information regarding occupation-
based assessment and intervention, as well
as viewing and scoring videotaped and live
AMPS observations during the course. CPD
certificate of attendance awarded: 36.25
hrs. Venue: Royal Derby Hospital, Derby.
Cost: £840. Visit: www.ncore.org.uk or
email: [e-mail]
27 SEPTEMBER 2019
Masterclass: The Occupational
Therapy-led Home-based Memory
Rehabilitation Programme (HBMR)
Facilitated by Mary McGrath, this
Masterclass is aimed at Band 6 and above
occupational therapists working in the area
of dementia. This one day masterclass will
enable delegates to gain a working
knowledge of the neuropsychology of
normal memory and attention. Delegates
will consolidate knowledge of the
neuropathology of the common forms of
dementia and will learn how to assess for
insight. Venue: RCOT, 106-114 Borough
High Street, London, SE1 1LB. Cost:
members £160; non members £300.
Contact: [e-mail]. Visit:
www.rcot.co.uk/hbmr19
The programme will cover management at
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