CIPIC's 'Making it happen: injury prevention and care' conference roundup

Dr Julie Mytton, Director of the Child Injury Health Integration Team (CIPIC HIT), talks about the team’s 2016 conference which took place on 17 March. This is part of a series of blogs, where key players in Bristol’s health sector write about a health related subject of their choice. If you want to contribute, email [email protected].

We held our third CIPIC HIT conference on Thursday 17 March 2016 at the Education Centre, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation
Trust. The title for the day was ‘
Making
it happen: injury prevention and care‘ and it was specifically targeted at
practitioners and those working directly with children, young people and
families. A wide range of delegates attended and we were delighted to welcome
students among the participants.

When we invited our keynote speaker, Professor Keith Stokes
from the University of Bath, to talk on sports injuries, we couldn’t have
anticipated the media attention relating to head injuries and sport that
occurred during the run up to our conference, so his presentation, ‘So after all that fuss, should
we really ban tackling in youth rugby?’ was particularly topical.

Each session of the day combined a mixture of an acute
injury care issue, an injury prevention topic and a presentation on injury
rehabilitation, to provide everyone with an opportunity to hear how all parts
of the injury care pathway have the potential to join up. The majority of the
speakers have been able to make their presentations available below.

The CIPIC HIT will be working with the Public Health team at
Bristol City Council to undertake a child injury needs assessment and delegates
were able to contribute to the planning for this project during the conference.

Many thanks to everyone who presented or attended for making
it such an interesting day.

• Dr Josh Hill (University Hospitals Bristol NHS Trust) – Trampoline trauma
• Ms Aimee White (University Hospitals Bristol NHS Trust) – Rehabilitation Prescriptions – working to improve outcomes for children affected by major trauma
• Mr Andy Townsend (Lifeskills) – Lifeskills Safety charity – planning for the future
• Mr Dave Rea (UWE) – Implementing a burns injury surveillance system in the emergency department
• Mrs Sian Rees (SHIPS Project) – The SHIPS Project – Rehabilitation of children after head injury
• Mr James Fagg (University Hospitals Bristol NHS Trust) –
  Development of a care pathway for open tibial fractures
• Professor Keith Stokes (University of Bath) – So after all that fuss, should we really ban tackling in youth rugby?
• Ms Jessica Williams (Bristol City Council) / Dr Julie Mytton
  (UWE) – Coordinating child injury prevention in Bristol
• Dr Julia Sarginson (University of Bristol) – Recognising and managing inflammation and infection following burn injury in children – the results from the MISTIC study
• Dr Adrian Davis (Bristol City Council) – A safe systems approach to road safety in Bristol
• Dr Nikola Creasey (University Hospitals Bristol NHS Trust) –
  Non-pharmacological interventions for mild traumatic brain injury: a systematic review