United Kingdom Acquired Brain Injury Forum
@UKABIF
UKABIF provides information, education and networking opportunities. We also facilitate regional groups and campaign on brain injury issues.
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Headway - the brain injury association
Headway - the brain injury association is a charity set up to give help and support to people affected by brain injury. #BrainInjury #HeadInjury #Concussion
Lisa Turan CEO
Proud CEO @cbituk, @ukabif trustee. Lover of life,kindness,leadership, empowerment & strength.All things brain injury - charity entrepreneur 💋
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Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist & Chartered Occupational Psychologist working in community neurorehab (NHS) & @ClarityPsych. Powered by coffee.Views = own
Child Brain Injury Trust
This is the official Twitter feed for the Child Brain Injury Trust. The charity people turn to about childhood acquired brain injury. We love to tweet #CBITUK
Paul Brown 💙
Specialist #BrainInjury & #SpinalInjury Partner @BurnettsMnsi , Secretary of @UKABIF & @NorthernABIF, Chair of @HeadwayWearside, Husband & Dad All views my own
The 2023 United Kingdom Acquired Brain Injury Forum Summit made a return to Salford, welcoming hundreds of attendees to The Lowry for a packed day of speakers & presentations. Chloe Hayward is the Executive Director of the United Kingdom Acquired Brain Injury Forum & reports for ACNR
acnr.co.uk/conference-rep…
“In March…the BBC published a report showing that FA board minutes from 1983 recognised the concern about head & brain injuries & the causal link [with] playing football”
MP Damian Collins during parliamentary debate y’day on head injuries & football ⬇️
hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2024-0…
'Part time work was no luxurious choice it was a hard won personal compromise between what I wanted and realism' Our trustee Sam Shephard's paper on ABI and Return to Work - a major undertaking using his own experience after brain injury, well worth a read. Thank you Sam 🙏
Our Young Experts By Experience in ABI are really looking forward to speaking at Irwin Mitchell's Independence Day conference on 4/7 in Brum - free to attend and with a fabulous line up NABLES Emily Bennett Gemma Costello Sarah Griggs deirdre healy💙
ukabif.org.uk/events/EventDe…
ABI in the Classroom delivered on Twinkl Resources last month - if you missed this you can catch up as below!
Accurate data is so badly needed to ensure adequate service provision for people with acquired brain injuries AND their families and carers.
The bridging document had better be good given it’s taken 28 months to get to this point!
Thanks for the continued pressure Chris Bryant
As well as Derick Wade important article, please take a moment to answer a few important questions we have on #diagnosis . Please share United Kingdom Acquired Brain Injury Forum Wiley Neuro The Brain Charity Matthew's Friends brainstrust The Brain Tumour Charity Epilepsy Action ChildhoodTumourTrust MND Association Headway Worcestershire
Watch Consultant Psychiatrist Czarina Kirk explain more about the risk of self harm after brain injury at our recent conference. We must do better in supporting patients, especially those in the criminal justice system. United Kingdom Acquired Brain Injury Forum #neurorehab
youtu.be/RLVIAwiQRNo
*Event*: Making Headway, a 90min, play of stories of living with brain injury. Free tomorrow night (10th) at 7.30pm stage@leeds thanks to NIHR Research funding Heads Together . ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/leeds… @PackingShedTheatre
Alex Henson BBC News - Brain injury survivor calls for rehab centre in Cornwall
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan… this story is repeated up and down the country thousands of times I feel like I'm waiting, fighting waste my time try to change this.
Great to see this coverage on BBC Radio 5 Live today - really important research and good to see mainstream coverage of brain injury and mental health #MikeDilley Royal College of Psychiatrists Headway - the brain injury association
Study aims to break link between brain injury and depression - good to see our trustee Dr Mike Dilley from King's College NHS fronting this important study Chris Bryant #braininjury bbc.co.uk/news/health-68…
A wonderful initiative for people with brain injury, and professionals too.
Please spead the word Alan Carson British Neuropsychiatry Association RCPsych Neuropsychiatry Faculty INA Neuropsych
Thank you Petrina, CEO of Eden Dora Trust for Children with Encephalitis for your consistent presence and diligent support - in particular the recent work with the Experts by Experience Group🙏
Our thanks to Gemma Buckland for leading this project on our behalf - great article ⬇️ on key insights into this work