The NZ Rehabilitation Association [NZRA] invites you to join us for a Rehab Conversation.

We run these free online 'Rehab Conversations' several times throughout the year - to gather, to connect, to share ideas, and to support each other in our learning and practice. Please share this invitation widely within your networks.

What is quality care in rehabilitation, and how do we achieve it?

Date: Monday 23rd June, 12pm - 12.50pm

This conversation will be a panel discussion, with opportunities for you to interact by offering your thoughts, posing questions and discussing ideas (and actions!) together. We invite you to join the conversation!

Panellists: William Levack, Jon Bagnell and Nicola Kayes

Professor William Levack is a physiotherapist and Dean & Head of Campus for the University of Otago Wellington in New Zealand.  He is a founder member of Cochrane Rehabilitation, which was established in 2016, and is the past president of the New Zealand Rehabilitation Association.  William has published over 100 journal publications and nine book chapters on rehabilitation.  In 2015, he co-edited a textbook entitled: “Rehabilitation Goal Setting: Theory, Practice and Evidence”.  Professor Levack’s research focuses on rehabilitation for people with neurological and chronic respiratory conditions as well as broader issues regarding interprofessional practice, person-centeredness and patient engagement in rehabilitation.

Jon Bagnall is a physiotherapist who has worked in the UK and NZ for over 20 years. He has worked in a variety of neurological settings, including an Advanced Clinician role at Counties Manukau on the rehabilitation ward and rehab outpatient service.  He is currently the Allied Health Consultant for Stroke, Neurology and Rehab at Te Toka Tumai/Auckland City hospital, President of ANZSO Aotearoa and a member of the National Stroke Network. A keen advocate for person/whanau centred, holistic approaches to rehabilitation, Jon is an international Bobath instructor, teaching and mentoring Physiotherapists and Occupational therapists in New Zealand and abroad.

Nicola Kayes is a Professor of Rehabilitation, and Co-Director of the Centre for Person Centred Research at AUT in New Zealand. With a background in health psychology, her specific research expertise draws insights from the intersection between health psychology, disability, and rehabilitation – critically exploring how what we know about how people think, feel, behave, and respond in the context of injury and illness can inform structures and practices to optimise outcome. Her recent research has focused on person-centred rehabilitation, therapeutic relationship and engagement, peer support, and ways of working which build psychosocial resources for recovery and adaptation.

Where: Online via Zoom

When you register, you will receive an email with the Zoom link for the event.

Please share the invitation with anyone you think might be interested in joining us for this session. We ask that they register separately so that we can contact them directly if there are any event changes and/or further information to share. Thanks!