Nichola Rumsey delivered the prestigious B K Rank Keynote Address at the Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery Congress, Melbourne, May 30^th 2019.  In the opening presentation of the Congress entitled ‘Don’t Eat the Marshmallows and other techniques for improving standards of patient assessment’. The 500 attendees (plastic and reconstructive surgeons) were informed about the CET project and the link to the project materials was given.  Nichola & Alex Clarke also delivered a Body Image workshop for 60 surgeons.  The CET website was given to attendees as an illustration of authoritative evidence based training materials for healthcare professionals

At a Keynote Address at the BAPRAS Annual Conference, 26^th June 2019, Bournemouth, UK, entitled ‘Between a Rock & a Hard Place: Challenges for Plastic Surgery in 2019′ Nichola Rumsey described the CET project to over 125 plastic and reconstructive surgeons from the UK and overseas.  The project was offered as an example of good practice in translating research evidence to clinical settings.

Several partners from CET attended and presented at the European Congress in Utrecht in June.  Over 700 delegates from around the world participated in the congress, themed Future perspectives in research & therapy.   Professionals attending this congress benefited from high-level scientific presentations, knowledge sharing and networking opportunities, with the overall goal of promoting understanding and treatment of clefts and other craniofacial anomalies

There were dedicated sessions on psychology and opportunities to present the CET project in front of a large audience – indeed the auditorium was overflowing at one point.  CET coordinator Martin Person led a session Long term outcomes in cleft care – a European approach, focusing on how we can be sure we are inclusive in terms of providing care to a European population that is not always easy to reach given socio-economic and educational constraints.

Other CET partners spoke on different aspects of cleft care in Europe, including the new directory of resource (European Cleft Gateway) and parents’ experiences of early cleft care which illustrate the need for a much more patient/parent-centred approach to care. 

Above all the Congress provided excellent networking opportunities in Europe and beyond with opportunities explores for future collaboration in terms of research, education and sharing best clinical practice.  

Triskelion’s partner Kristianstad University just confirmed that we had our application “Body Confident mums” (Erasmus+ KA2) approved by the Swedish national agency. The project will start in late summer of 2019.

The project is based on the work of the Australian team led by Dr. Zali Yager, Senior Lecturer in Health and Physical Education at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia.

Title is : Body Confident Mum’s, An Innovative Health Professionals Training Program to support maternal mental and physical health

The Correct IT project is coming to an end and the team had the final meeting in the charming city of Iasi, Romania at the end of june 2019. The team was working on the sustainability strategy in particular, but also discussing multiplier events, C2 training in Norway and administrative issues for the final report.

The third meeting took place in Bucharest 11 – 12 October 2018. At this meeting, the developed curriculum was presented to the partners by Triskelion and HKR. The training followed the concept of “train the trainer” which induced the developed modules together with clinical case studies. Fruitfull discussion about the curriculum took place, and that resulted in some minor adjustments to the material. Overall, everyone agreed that the material is excellent and plans for the pilot implementation was decided.

The team of the Early Care Training project, led by Mr Gareth Davies gathered in Plovdiv on the 15th of February. The focus was to set the course for finalization of training materials, pedagogical report, dissemination and implemantation.

All Correct-IT partners sent 4-5 staff to a train the trainers event in Foggia, Italy between 8. 12 April 2019. The purpose of the training was to teach the face-to-face modules and get feedback from trainers on the online module, which they had already gone through beforehand. The 24 hours teaching event was held at the University, Faculty of medicine.