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  • Bridges Symposium 2014

    The 5th annual Bridges symposium was held on 17th June 2014 and located at St George’s University of London. It generated much interest and demand for attendance, being attended by over 120 healthcare professionals, stroke survivors, carers and individuals working in, commissioning or interested in stroke rehabilitation.

    Attendees were given the first opportunity to hear about the findings from the recently completed research trial (‘SESAME’) funded by NIHR-Research for Patient Benefit. This trial evaluated the feasibility of embedding a stroke self-management programme (Bridges) into community stroke rehabilitation.

    You can download pdf’s of the three presentations below

    Presentations

    Prof Fiona Jones and Dr Matt Liston

    Integrating a stroke self-management programme into stroke rehabilitation - can it be done?

    Laura Adams, Jessica Crouch and David Ede

    Being part of Bridges - a clinicans' and stroke survivors' point of view

    Prof Avril Drummond

    Stroke self-management- lessons learnt and take home messages

    Key findings from the trial were presented by Professor Fiona Jones and Dr Matt Liston on:

    • the impact of the intervention (Bridges self-management programme) on clinical outcomes and main themes from interview and
    • observational studies which explored fidelity of the programme and experiences of staff and a stroke survivor.

    Additional presentations were given by:

    • Laura Adams and Jessica Crouch from Lewisham Adult Therapy Team, one of the trial intervention sites where they embedded the Bridges approach into their rehabilitation of stroke survivors
    • Stroke survivor David Ede, who told us his story and perspectives on working with the Lewisham team
    • Prof Avril Drummond, a key contributor to the research trial. A summary of delegate feedback can be accessed here