Bridges Stories - Bridges Self Management

If champions are key to sustaining innovation in healthcare, what sustains the champions?

Bridges Reflections

What helps an innovation stick? Lessons from Bridges Champions on spreading and sustaining change A valuable discussion in our August Bridges peer coaching session explored a question many clinicians and... Read more

Group of 23 smiling people outside in winter. The London Eye, Thames and Palace of Westminster are in the background.

Bridges in Practice: Community Stroke and Neuro Rehab, Guy’s and St Thomas’

Bridges in Practice

We sat down with Karen Coster, Deputy Clinical Lead at the Community Stroke and Neuro-Rehabilitation Service at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, to find out about the effect... Read more

Listening, Pausing, Empowering: A New Kind of Healthcare

Bridges Reflections

In healthcare, expertise is rightly valued. We need highly specialist physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Speech & Language Therapists, Clinical Nurse Specialists, and countless others with deep knowledge to support recovery and... Read more

Self-management support starts with meaningful connection

Bridges Reflections

Recently, Fiona Jones, Bridges Founder and CEO, presented our work at the International Post-Covid and Post-Infection Conditions Conference. A brief exchange on the label of self-management, and a reminder that... Read more

A large group of adults posed for a photo indoors in front of a tall wall covered with dense green plants. The group includes men and women, and various ages. Several people are seated in the front row on chairs, while others stand behind them. They are smiling and wearing casual winter clothing such as sweaters, scarves, and jackets; a few have festive Christmas-style jumpers. Several people are wearing colorful paper party crowns (like Christmas crackers), including pink, purple, green, and red. Two mobility aids are visible in the front-right area: a wheelchair and a rolling walker.

Bridges in Practice: Community Neuro, Chichester

Bridges in Practice

Physiotherapist Lara and Therapy Practitioner Katy are Bridges Champions from the Community Neuro team in Chichester, West Sussex. Two years after completing Bridges self-management training we caught up with them... Read more

Curiosity, Connections, and Padayon: Building Bridges for Stroke Support in the Philippines

Bridges Projects

How can a series of Zoom calls, bringing together over 20 people separated by more than 6500 miles, lead to a ground breaking stroke support initiative? Through a shared vision,... Read more

Small steps and trusting in the reason why: 10 years of Bridges

Bridges Reflections

As Bridges celebrates its 10th Birthday year, our Founder and CEO Professor Fiona Jones shares the story of how Bridges was formed, and reflects on the journey to where we... Read more

Listening, learning and losing fears

Bridges Projects

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... Read more

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

Bridges in Practice

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... Read more

The Courage To Be Wrong

Bridges Reflections

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... Read more

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