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  • Listening, learning and losing fears

    charliedorer

    21 Mar 2020
    As stroke and neuro rehab staff, we aim to do the best for people with a long-term neuro condition who come to us for rehabilitation. We know that we do not have all the answers and sometimes it’s about listening and letting people talk. Listening is part of the journey for all of us.  However,… View Article

  • Person-centred care in an acute stroke in-patient setting: don’t give up hope!

    katiebond

    21 Mar 2020
    When working in an acute busy environment attempting to make even small changes to practice can seem challenging. Frequently the barriers seem relentless, unchanging and tiring. Having recently completed the Bridges Self-Management programme, the team jointly decided to focus on small changes that hoped to support communication and information sharing within the acute stroke unit. … View Article

  • A New Dawn

    bradmin

    24 Sep 2018
    I work in a Level 1 Neurological Rehabilitation Centre, in a Consultant Neuropsychiatrist-led multi-disciplinary team (MDT)…

  • Mini Victories

    bradmin

    2 Jul 2018
    On 26th April we launched the ‘Bridges to recovery after trauma’ book to healthcare staff at St George’s Major Trauma Centre, London…

  • What does ‘Self-Manage’ really mean?

    bradmin

    5 Mar 2018
    Self manage’… a complex process through which you complete your day to day life, work towards goals, and maintain your roles…

  • The Courage To Be Wrong

    bradmin

    29 Jan 2018
    Many years ago I interviewed someone and asked ‘what was the most important factor in helping you recover?’, without pause she said ‘its courage really’. She had lived through an incredible number of setbacks following a large stroke that left her paralysed and with difficulty speaking and swallowing. It wasn’t all about the therapy, it… View Article

  • Trust World Café: stroke care

    Billy Mann

    9 Feb 2017
    Tess Baird is an unstoppable force. In November 2016 she gathered together a few colleagues and contacts in a small room in London’s Mile End Hospital to explain her bonkers idea. She wanted clinicians and service users to get to understand and communicate with one another in more meaningful and effective ways. The subject in… View Article

  • ‘Bridges methodology’: defining our values 10 years on

    Lucinda

    4 Jan 2017
    Our methodology describes how we work with healthcare teams, people and families through research and improvement projects and interprofessional training, to co-produce a Bridges self-management support package suited to the local context. This is in keeping with our mission as a social enterprise: to improve the lives of people living with acute and long-term conditions,… View Article

  • Starting self-management support early in the acute setting: happier staff, happier patients, reduced length of stay?

    Lucinda

    11 Nov 2016
    Imagine that you have spent months in hospital following numerous plastic surgeries.  One Friday morning the surgeon comes to your bedside and says that you are fit to return home.  However, there’s one problem; you haven’t been out of bed for weeks, and now you feel that you can’t get out of bed.  You see… View Article

  • What is uniquely ‘Bridges’ about this stroke group? Helping others to help yourself

    Billy Mann

    20 Jun 2016
    On four successive Mondays in April 2016 I helped with on a research project into whether the step process method in stroke rehabilitation as pioneered by Bridges Self-Management can be made to work in a group setting. The more interesting details of the study, by University College London’s (UCL) Ella Clark, will I’m sure appear in more scholarly quarters,… View Article