Speakers
Professor David McWilliams
Kate Tantam
Dr Pam Page
Nicola Williams
Sarah Vollam
Stream 2
Outline of proposed content:
Round table discussion for practical and pragmatic solutions to achieve the NCEPOD recommendations. This session will provide real world examples and insights with a view to empower clinicians in both the implementation and evaluation of rehabilitation for survivors of critical illness.
Learning objectives
1) To discuss real world examples of aspiring for excellence in critical care rehabilitation
2) To understand how to identify those patients most at risk of critical care morbidity
3) To explore how we can make the NCEPOD recommendations a reality in the current NHS climate
4) Strategies to ensure patients and their loved ones are actively involved and remain at the centre of care
David McWilliams is a Professor of Critical Care and Rehabilitation and Clinical Academic Physiotherapist at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust and Coventry University's Centre for Care Excellence. He is the chair of the physiotherapy working group for the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, and Chair of the Intensive Care Society National Rehabilitation Collaborative. David was a member of the guideline development group for the NICE guideline ‘Critical Illness rehabilitation’ and led an NCEPOD study into rehabilitation and recovery following critical illness. David is recognised as an international expert on critical care physiotherapy and rehabilitation, regularly presenting both nationally and internationally on the subject.
Kate is a Specialist Sister in ICU in Plymouth. Her role is to support patients, loved ones and staff pre and post ICU discharge. She is a nurse researcher in rehabilitation after critical illness and the founder of the #Rehablegend campaign. The campaign shares patient stories to share best practice, improve patient experience, support quality improvement and clinical research and raise awareness of the importance of rehabilitation for all. Her work was recognised with a Parliamentary Award for care and compassion in 2019, National Patient Experience Award in 2019. Her work during 2020/2021 supporting patients with COVID saw her awarded with a British Empire Medal for services to improve patient experience. She is the deputy chair of the National Rehabilitation Collaborative and is keen to develop national work to support recovery after ICU.
I am a registered nurse with 40 years’ experience in both clinical critical care and critical care education. I am passionate about improving quality of life during and post critical illness for ICU survivors and their families.
My doctoral work (2012-2016) revealed that many ICU survivors have little recall of the factual events of their critical illness, but relatives have lived the whole event in a very real and ingraining manner. This can result in family members and survivors experiencing very different versions of the critical illness episode. As a Churchill Fellow (2019) I have been able to visit ICUs in the USA, Australia and New Zealand to witness best practice in ICU survivorship in support of critical illness survivorship here in the UK.
My day job is deputy director of NMC reviews, working on behalf of the Nursing and Midwifery Council; providing quality assurance to nursing and midwifery programmes across the UK.
Nicky is a Physiotherapist and works on the critical care unit at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals. She is a Critical Care Physiotherapy Practitioner and is the Rehabilitation & Follow Up Lead. Her role includes early rehabilitation and weaning on critical care. As a rehabilitation co-ordinator she follows patients up on the ward and once they are discharged from hospital. She co-ordinates the Follow Up Service and is part of the complex follow up clinic. She is an advocate for promoting rehabilitation during all stages of critical illness recovery and is involved in the education of health care professionals at a trust, network and post graduate levels.
Nicky is interested in early mobilisation, currently involved in the FRECycl-D trial, and to learn from patients how to improve services.
Nicky has recently stepped down from the role of co-chair of the National Network Critical Care AHP group, during this time she had the opportunity to be part of the group developing the guidance for the Network Peer Review of Rehabilitation. She is the Lancashire & South Cumbria Critical Care Network AHP Lead.
Sarah is a Senior Post-Doctoral Researcher in the University of Oxford Critical Care Research Group. She co-leads the NIHR-funded Enhanced Recovery After Critical Care (ERACC) programme of research, aiming to design and test an enhanced care pathway for critical care survivors.
Sarah has a clinical ICU nursing background. She is an outgoing Associate Editor for Nursing in Critical Care and Deputy Chair of the Intensive Care Society's National Rehabilitation Collaborative. She is also a Visiting Fellow at Oxford Brookes University.
Emma Jackson is an intensivist from the NW with a longstanding interest in all aspects of humanising the ICU - all aspects from environmental & sensory through to animal-assisted therapy. She has also developed interests in follow up and long term rehabilitation for intensive care patients highlighting that there is always ‘a person behind the patient’ . She has undertaken a fellowship in ECMO and cardiac intensive care during her training.
She previously chaired the Trainee Advisory Group for the Intensive Care Society as well as sitting on their Standards and Guidelines committee and is a current member of the Consultant advisory group. She is currently deputy chair of the NRC.