RSI Conference

The Conference will focus on Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) conditions, RSI prevention & workplace management, treatments, therapies, how to work round the limitations of RSI conditions, and how to seek assistance. For more, click here.

National Employment and Health Innovations Network

This network provides regular opportunities for innovators and policy makers to meet to exchange ideas, experience and evidence covering the whole field of health and work. More details will be made available here shortly.

Top Manager Programme

Top Manager Programme is a transformational five-week programme for both NHS and public sector leaders who aspire to reach the top. TMP is a challenging programme, introducing not only new knowledge and ideas but deeply questioning assumptions and attitudes about the effective management of people and organisations. Read more here.

2010 Vocational Rehabilitation Association (VRA) AGM & Conference

The VRA annual general meeting and conference includes a combination of training, workshops, and symposia ranging from vocational rehabilitation training to a symposium on Education and Training for Vocational Rehabilitation. For more details, click here.

International Forum on Disability Management 2010

With the theme, Collaborating for Success, this year's conference aims to share insight on how to create, implement, and evaluate comprehensive disability management initiatives. For more, click here.

European Conference on Rehabilitation

The 9th European Regional and 3rd Danish Conference on Rehabilitation will focus on several topics including the role of the state in rehabilitation, user-pespectives on rehabilitation, case management and quality care.

For more details on this event, click here.

The new Fit Note will be introduced in the UK on 6 April 2010.  Commenting on the Fit note, Dr. Bill Gunnyeon, Chief Medical Adviser to the DWP, said: "the new form will enable doctors to advise a patient whether they can return to work if supported by their employer. The change is driven by evidence that work is therapeutic and helps promote recovery and rehabilitation ..." For more read here.

It gives me great pleasure to welcome you in this, my first newsletter since the UK Rehabilitation Council became a fully constituted member organisation. Thank you for the support you have shown by joining...  I am contacting you now as we have just held our first strategy day. To read the full document click here.

With the first election for board members to the UK Rehabilitation Council board now completed, the UKRC is pleased to announce the names of the five new Council members.

Information on UKRC Membership, Council Board structure and Council elections

Background to the UKRC

Vision of the UKRC and key functions

Role of the UKRC and its activities

The need for a strategic alliance of rehabilitation organisations and a proposal for the UKRC as the lead body

Rehabilitation standards, designed to protect the quality of care provided to people who require clinical and vocational rehabilitation, were launched in Westminster today by the work minister Lord McKenzie of Luton.

The UK Rehabilitation Council (UKRC), the umbrella body for people with a stake in clinical and vocational rehabilitation, is seeking wide participation from the rehabilitation community and will be holding elections to its governing body in the autumn.
 

The UK Rehabilitation Council (UKRC) is delighted to announce that it has been successful in gaining 3-year funding from the Department of Health’s Third Sector Investment Programme Grants under the Excellence, Innovation and Service Delivery programme.

UKRC and VRA welcome the recent government paper “Working together for a healthier tomorrow, a review by Dame Carol Black”, and especially its commitment to vocational rehabilitation. Whilst we strongly support the document’s overall aims, we would like to clear up confusion about the respective roles of the UKRC and VRA that appears in the government response. In particular the Vocation Rehabilitation Council (referred to on page 109 of response below) does not exist.