Following the success of our 2023 Study Day and AGM, our 2024 Study Day will be on Friday 29 November 2024 in London.
We'll be updating this page with more information as we have it.
ACPOHE Study Day 2024
Date: 29th November 2024
Time: 08.30 - 17.00
Location: FLOKK - 31 Great Sutton Street, Clerkenwell, London EC1V 0NA
Getting there and away
Train & Bus – The showroom is a short walk from Farringdon train station, and not too far from Barbican, Old Street and Chancery Lane Underground stations. There are also stops on Clerkenwell Road and St John Street for the 55, N55, 153, 243 bus routes
Use the “Get Directions” function on their website to plan your best route.
Car - As the event is in central London, car parking is limited. We advise, whenever possible either car sharing or travelling to the event via public transport. There is an NCP car park close by and JustPark parking spaces that can be booked online.
Cost
Early bird price, extended to 30 September 2024:
ACPOHE Members - £60
Non-ACPOHE members - £110
From 1 October 2024 the full price will be:
ACPOHE Members - £75
Non-ACPOHE members - £125
This includes lunch and refreshments.
Non-members can join ACPOHE for £50 per year to receive all of the membership benefits: acpohe.csp.org.uk/product/40.
Who is it for?
Our Study Day is suitable for physios and other health professionals working in the field of occupational health and ergonomics including, but not limited to, occupational therapists, registered general nurses, occupational health advisors, occupational health physicians, graduate ergonomists, Chiropractors and student physiotherapists. Not sure if it's for you? Send an email to admin@acpohe.org.uk to ask us.
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ACPOHE Study Day 2024
After the tremendous success of the 2024 event, the ACPOHE Study Day is back, bigger and better than ever!
The theme of our day is “Thriving in the workplace”, to explore some lesser talked about conditions that can influence work and health and discover strategies to empower individuals to thrive in their professional environments.
Speakers: Schedule highlights include key speakers on cancer rehabilitation, pelvic health and rheumatoid arthritis.
Workshops: Engage in fun, interactive afternoon workshops and choose from:
- Access to Work and Cancer/terminal illness
- Practical ergonomics linking to pelvic pain
- Health psychology and confidence building in the workplace
Academic Posters: We invite participants to showcase their research, projects, or case studies through academic posters. If you would like to display your poster, contact us on admin@acpohe.org.uk to arrange a space no later than Monday 11th November. It is recommended that your poster is A0 or A1 size. You will be able to speak to attendees and answer questions during the breaks throughout the day. View our guidance for tips on creating impactful posters.
Networking: Take advantage of ample networking opportunities throughout the day and the evening before the event. Meet our event sponsors, who will be on hand to answer questions and demonstrate products.
Sponsors: Flokk is a market leader for high-quality seating solutions in Europe. We believe in creating furniture that meets the essential needs of people while also considering the impact on future generations, starting with perhaps our best known brands of Rh & Hag but now including Profim, Girolex, Offecct and Connection into our portfolio.
Prize draw: Flokk are also amazingly offering a Capsico Puls 8020 in a draw – one lucky attendee can specify an 8020 in group 2 select fabric of their choice together with metalwork colour and gas lift height to fully personalise.
Don't miss out on this enriching event designed to enhance your professional skills and knowledge. Register now to secure your place!
ACPOHE Study Day 2024
The Plan for The Day
08.30 Registration and Coffee
Your first chance for a catch up with colleagues.
09.00 Venue Welcome (Flokk) Andrew Shepherd
Andrew Shepherd: Andrew has been at Flokk for 5 years and is their ergonomic and 24/7 seating specialist. Providing In depth knowledge of the full range of ergonomic seating and offering advice on adjustment and fit for individual needs and working styles.
09.15 Our Chair, Alex Bell, will formally open the event with a few words
9.30 Our First Speaker – Karen Robb on Cancer Rehabilitation
Karen Robb: Dr Karen Robb is a Chartered Physiotherapist and the Director of Programme Implementation in Cancer (UK and Ireland) for Movember. Karen recently served on CSP council.
Karen is a specialist in cancer rehabilitation and her career has spanned clinical practice, academia and strategic roles. She has worked in several high-profile organisations including Barts Hospital, NHS England and North East London Cancer Alliance.
Karen is passionate about ensuring high quality evidence-based rehabilitation is accessible for all people living with and beyond cancer. After working for many years as a specialist in breast cancer, her recent move into men’s health has opened her eyes to the complex challenges in delivering personalised care in prostate cancer. She has a growing interest in sexual dysfunction and is currently working with her colleagues at Movember to implement new evidence-based clinical guidelines. In her spare time Karen enjoys keeping fit, walking her dog Maisie and hanging out with friends and family..
10:15 Coffee and Networking
A 30 minute pause to grab a drink and connect with our sponsors and colleagues
10:45 Christien Bird / Gerard Green on pelvic health
Christien Bird: After training in the Netherlands, Christien worked with musculoskeletal and women’s health outpatients at Central Middlesex Hospital, London. She also worked with the clinical research team at Brunel University London after gaining her Master’s degree in research methods at King’s College London. Christien founded the White Hart Clinic in Barnes in 1995, a busy multidisciplinary practice that offers musculoskeletal, pelvic health, psychological and medical services whitehartclinic.co.uk.
Christien is the co-founder of the Menopause Movement online certified training and community platform for health and fitness professionals menopausemovement.co. The movement has created a community and training platform for the fitness and health world to confidently treat & train women into the menopause.
She joined the educational subcommittee of the pelvic health professional body, thepogp.co.uk in 2020, enjoying working alongside some very impressive physio peers to support training and awareness of pelvic health. One of her roles is representing the POGP for NICE (National Institute for health and Care Excellence) guideline development.
Before starting up the clinic, she worked as superintendent physiotherapist at the out-patients department at the Central Middlesex Hospital and as a research coordinator. Christien completed a master’s degree in clinical research methodology from King’s College and has coordinated a large clinical trial looking at the effects of physiotherapy for acute low back pain. Her work has been published in medical peer review journals worldwide. At the start of her physio career, she trained in the Netherlands and worked in hospital as well as private practice settings treating sports & MSK injuries in Germany and the Netherlands.
She loves everything about movement and continues to compete as an age-group athlete for British triathlon representing Britain. Much of her drive is supporting women in enjoying movement and staying strong.
Gerard Green: Gerard is an experienced men’s health physiotherapist and has two specialist pelvic health clinics in Birmingham and London. He works clinically in male pelvic pain, pudendal neuralgia, pelvic floor rehab post prostate surgery, hard flaccid syndrome, younger erectile dysfunction, pelvic floor dysfunction in sport and focused shockwave in pelvic health. He set up the London Men’s Health Physio Clinic in 2022 which is one of the few UK clinics to solely focus on male pelvic health conditions.
He has delivered male pelvic health education and training for many international organisations including APTA Pelvic Health Academy (USA), IFOMPT Asia, Japanese Physiotherapy Association, South African Physiotherapy Society and WCPT. He has taught widely on male pelvic health in UK, Ireland and abroad and is a strong advocate to get more physiotherapists involved in this specialist area of practice.
He is also an Assistant Professor of Physiotherapy in Coventry University, UK. Outside of work he is dad to 4 teenage kids, is a keen but inconsistent golfer and enjoys the gym/pool. He can be found on Instagram @harbornephysio and online at the links below.
londonmenshealth.physio
harbornephysio.co.uk
greeneseminars.physio
11:30 Mr Will Gregory on Rheumatoid Arthritis
Will Gregory: Will is a Consultant Physiotherapist employed by the Rheumatology team at Salford Royal Hospital. He is Vice President (for HCPs) at the British Society for Rheumatology and co-chair of the recently formed RheumPhysioUK CSP professional network.
He is a visiting lecturer in advanced practice and in rheumatology at Manchester Metropolitan University and also teaches on the Keele University Rheumatology MSc and on Exercise Physiology at The University of Salford.
Research interests include the early identification and the rehabilitation of Axial Spondyloarthritis, as well as physiotherapy for rarer connective tissue disorders.
For more details: researchgate.net/profile/William-Gregory-2 or @PhysioWillGreg on X.
12.15 Discussion Panel
12.45 Lunch and Posters
A buffet lunch will be provided. Dietary requirements will be catered for if indicated at the time of booking.
13.45 ACPOHE Update
Update on what has been going on in the last year and how the committee is taking ACPOHE forward for its members .
14.30 Workshop 1
A choice of two of the three workshops – grab a coffee as you move around. See below for details
15.30 Workshop 2
A choice of two of the three workshops – grab a coffee as you move around. See below for details.
16.15 Closing Comments
Closing comments from our chair, Alex Bell.
The Workshops
- Access To Work and Cancer on cancer and rheumatoid arthritis
- Ergonomics practical linking to pelvic pain
- Health psychology - confidence building for the workplace physio
Cost
Early bird price, running up to 30 September 2024:
ACPOHE Members - £60
Non-ACPOHE members - £110
From 1 October 2024 the full price will be:
ACPOHE Members - £75
Non-ACPOHE members - £125
This includes lunch and refreshments.
Location
FLOKK - 31 Great Sutton Street, Clerkenwell, London EC1V 0NA
Getting there and away
Train & Bus – The showroom is a short walk from Farringdon train station, and not too far from Barbican, Old Street and Chancery Lane Underground stations. There are also stops on Clerkenwell Road and St John Street for the 55, N55, 153, 243 bus routes.
Use the “Get Directions” function on their website to plan your best route.
Car - As the event is in central London, car parking is limited. We advise, whenever possible either car sharing or travelling to the event via public transport. There is an NCP car park close by and JustPark parking spaces that can be booked online.
How to book your Study Day place
Use the booking link below to book your place for the study day now. Tickets are limited and based on a first-come first-served basis.
You will be asked to select your workshops in order of preference during the booking process. This will allow us to plan the layout of the venue. Wherever possible, participants will be allocated to their first two choices.
Please make sure you indicate any dietary requirements during the booking process. Please also book the correct type of membership ticket.
*** Non ACPOHE members: to take advantage of our reduced ticket rate for ACPOHE members and the other benefits of being an ACPOHE member for just £50 for a year, you can join ACPOHE first by clicking on this link, then click on the link below to book your Study Day ticket. ***
Need help?
Send an email to admin@acpohe.org.uk.
A little about our sponsors
Our study day is kindly being sponsored by the following companies:
Flokk is a market leader for high-quality seating solutions in Europe. We believe in creating furniture that meets the essential needs of people while also considering the impact on future generations, starting with perhaps our best known brands of Rh & Hag but now including Profim, Girolex, Offecct and Connection into our portfolio.
Flokk are also amazingly offering a Capsico Puls 8020 chair in a draw – one lucky attendee can specify an 8020 in group 2 select fabric of their choice together with metalwork colour and gas lift height to fully personalise.
Osmond Ergonomics
Guy
Guy Osmond has operated in the workplace sector for over 30 years. Throughout that time, he has actively promoted ergonomics, wellbeing and good practice through workshops, talks, exhibitions, conferences, magazine articles, blogs, social media and, most recently, a monthly podcast.
Stuart
Stuart Entwistle is Training Manager at Osmond Ergonomics. He has been at the company for over 24 years and in this role since 2013, delivering both internal and external training (face-to-face and virtually). Before that he worked in almost every department of the company and has completed thousands of DSE assessments.
Osmond Ergonomics will be raising awareness about their new Inclusive Wellbeing Services (launching in July).
What you said about Study Day 2023
We had some great feedback about last year's Study Day:
Great day, thanks to all the speakers.
Overall an excellent day, with interesting topics!
Thanks for an interesting day. Enjoyed having a go with some of the equipment that was available.
This was an incredibly well organised event with some really fantastic speakers.