Postgraduate
Centre
City Hospital
Birmingham, UK
November 6th 2008
This national Conference is part of Handsel
Trust’s Sleep Initiative - working with other organisations
to get more help to more families in England, Wales and N. Ireland.
(Scotland already has excellent support from Sleep Scotland,
www.sleepscotland.org)
The Trust’s research has exposed a vast mountain
of unmet need in families with a disabled, child, young person
or adult. In our estimation, over 100,000 families are sleep-deprived
and going without help. For full information about the research
and a literature review, see the Trust’s publication Sleep?
What’s that? at
http://www.handseltrust.org/sleepwhatsthat.htm
The ‘Sleep. What Helps?’ Conference
is aimed at service managers and practitioners who want to find
out what sort of help is possible and the implications of setting
up a sleep service. The Conference though does not aim to give
practitioners new skills or give solutions to any family’s sleep
problems.
At the Conference the Trust will launch its
new publication, Sleep. What helps? This will be
a valuable resource to support all practitioners who work with
families and who are asked to offer some initial help with their
sleep issues.
The Conference programme is being developed
now and guest speakers will include:
§
Dr Philippa Russell,
Chair, Standing Commission on Carers
§
Dr. Luci Wiggs, Dept. of Psychology, Oxford
Brookes University
§
Jessica Underhill, Research Fellow, Chailey
Heritage Clinical Services
§
Dr. Victoria McGrigor,
Southampton Children’s Sleep Disorders Service
§
Jane Wright, Clinical Nurse Specialist for
Disabled Children, Mansfield PCT
Please watch the website below for the full
programme in due course. Contact me in the meantime if you wish
to register your interest.
Peter Limbrick
Chair
Handsel Trust
Tel/fax: 01497 831550
E-mail:
p.limbrick@virgin.net
Web:
www.handseltrust.org
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