Thu 15 Jan 2026 09:00-16:20
Online Conference, 6 CPD Hours

Online, interactive, training for you: enhance your continuing care practices

Join and network with fellow NHS children’s community, continuing care and complex needs nurses for an invaluable and eye-opening, interactive training day designed to update your knowledge and build confidence in your team. By taking one day out, you will benefit from informative and relevant presentations and interactive discussions providing you with an opportunity to hear tips to improve practice, generate new ideas for service development and discover how other teams deliver continuing care. 

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Supported by:

Collaborative Approaches to Optimising Outcomes in Children’s Continuing Care
Online 6 CPD hours £299+VAT

Improve your understanding and support with expertly led, structured NHS learning

Equip your team with up-to-date information and the skills to effectively support your patients. You will leave this interactive online forum ready to: 

  • Implement essential tools and innovative training models for carers and families
  • Navigate the latest updates to the Decision Support Tool with clarity and confidence
  • Write clear, accurate assessments using appropriate phrasing to improve patient advocacy
  • Understand and manage appeals and timelines to protect and promote the rights of children and their families
  • Strengthen peer review practice in your team with examples from leading trusts
  • Collaborate across health and social care effectively to improve complex discharges 

Developed with convenience in mind: join this online course remotely

With an enhanced emphasis on interactive discussion and idea sharing, this unique training day will provide you with all the elements you need to deliver change through:

  • Listening and watching presentations and speakers’ Q&A with your course chair
  • Updating your understanding of peer review, DST, appeals and their timelines
  • Taking part in facilitated interactive discussions, learning from fellow attendees as well as the experienced presenters
  • A unique opportunity to develop your key knowledge and network with other trusts and services

Supported by

With thanks to Roald Dahl Children's Charity for supporting this educational forum. 

9:00
Join, tech support and opportunity to network in your meeting room
9:30
Chair’s opening remarks and introductions
Gemma Sweeting, Roald Dahl Community Complex Care Clinical Nurse Specialist, Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity
Effective use of Decision Support Tool (DST) in assessments
9:40
How to fully utilise the DST for proficient children’s continuing care assessments
  • Explore the latest DST changes: update your knowledge and practice
  • Enhance your understanding on the domains of the DST
  • How to avoid double scoring and provide accurate care planning for complex cases
Joanna Grant, Director of Nursing, MCS Healthcare
10:10
Questions and answers with your speakers
10:20
Definitive assessment phrasing, appeals and timelines to ensure patient advocacy
  • Apply appropriate phrasing in assessments to advocate for patients effectively
  • Educate families: establish their understanding of appeal processes and timelines
  • Ensure best practice outcomes by initiating appropriate challenges to DST decisions
Lilian Wiles, All Age Continuing Care Case Manager, NHS Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board
10:50
Questions and answers with your speaker
11:00
Screen break
11:10
Charity Showcase
Tina Jutla, Programmes Co-ordinator, Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity
Managing decisions following DST score
11:20
Interactive discussion: Managing social complexity within personal health budget (PHB)
  • Share when you’ve had an experience of needing to manage family’s expectations and why
  • How did you navigate, which techniques do you use? How did you approach difficult conversations?
  • What do you do to support families under financial strain or housing challenges?
11:50
Feedback from interactive discussion: Managing social complexity within personal health budget (PHB)
12:00
How to align children’s care with personal health budget expectations
  • Create tailored care plans by understanding ICB role in the PHB
  • Develop communication tools to set realistic expectations with families throughout the care process
  • Identify and respond to social complexity including discharge delays caused by unsafe living environments
Raphaella Corbishley, Associate Director of Development and Clinical Quality, Haven House Children’s Hospice
12:30
Questions and answers with your speaker
12:40
Lunch break
Incorporate peer review in continuing care
1:30
Defining and implementing peer review to optimise decision making during continuing care
  • Examine the purpose and structure of peer review to effectively contribute to improving outcomes in continuing care
  • Stay current with peer review procedures to enhance clinical governance and accountability in your team
  • Case study: learn from model practice of peer review implementation
Madeleine Bradley, WellChild Lead Continuing Care Nurse, Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
2:00
Questions and answers with your speakers
Optimise social care support
2:10
Collaborating across the MDT: strengthen social care and continuing care working
  • Charity showcase: Rainbow Trust
  • Make evidenced referrals for safeguarding, transition planning, and continuing care
  • Work collaboratively with health teams to contribute to continuing care decisions
  • Enhance patient and family wellbeing by signposting to additional support
Jen Kenward, Director of Care Services, Rainbow Trust Children’s Charity
2:40
Questions and answers with your speaker
2:50
Screen break
3:00
Interactive discussion: Navigating Discharge Pathways for Complex Children
  • What alternative care pathways have you used when a child cannot go home?
  • What does a successful complex discharge look like in your service? How is this measured?
  • What training or support do you offer to families to prepare them for discharge home? How is this done?
3:30
Feedback from interactive discussion: Navigating Discharge Pathways for Complex Children
3:40
Supporting and planning continuing care for complex children’s journey home
  • Explore the role of social care in continuing care and discharge planning for children with complex needs
  • Collaborate across health and social care to improve complex discharges and coordinate ongoing continuing care services
  • Explore the varying pathways for complex children and where they go if they aren’t discharged home
Emma Wall, WellChild Nurse and Lead Nurse for Complex Paediatric Discharge Liaison, Walsall Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
4:10
Questions and answers with your speaker
4:20
Chairs closing remarks and close of day

Your confirmed speakers to-date:

A unique forum packed with examples of best practice, novel ideas and expert advice from:


Job Title:
Roald Dahl Community Complex Care Clinical Nurse Specialist
Organisation
Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity
Biography

Job Title:
Associate Director of Development and Clinical Quality
Organisation
Haven House Children’s Hospice
Biography

Job Title:
Director of Care Services
Organisation
Rainbow Trust Children’s Charity
Biography

Job Title:
Healthcare Consultant
Organisation
Solutions in Healthcare
Biography

Job Title:
All Age Continuing Care Case Manager
Organisation
NHS Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board
Biography

Job Title:
WellChild Lead Continuing Care Nurse
Organisation
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Biography

Job Title:
WellChild and Lead Nurse for Complex Paediatric Discharge Liaison
Organisation
Walsall Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Biography

Job Title:
Programmes Co-ordinator
Organisation
Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity
Biography

Job Title:
Director of Nursing
Organisation
MCS Healthcare
Biography

Pricing structure

  • Early bird - £249+VAT for one NHS or Public Sector place when booked before 21st November
  • £299+VAT for one NHS or Public Sector place

For group bookings of five or more people, please contact our delegate support team for further details:

enquiries@sbk-healthcare.co.uk
01732 897788

Commercial companies are also invited to sponsor this day, please email Sarah Kemm for further details.

This course is available for in-house training 

Available as a bespoke course to teams of 30+ people. Please do contact us if you would like this training delivered exclusively to your team, with the content developed to drill into the specific needs of your service. Please email Sarah Kemm at sarah.kemm@sbk-healthcare.co.uk or call 01732 897788 for further details.

If your funding has not yet been secured or you would like to hold your place with no obligation, you can reserve your place with us. Please email the reservations team at SBK Healthcare with your details:

  • Booking contact: name, job title, department, email and telephone number
  • Event(s) to reserve for: title and date
  • Delegate details (for each delegate): name, job title, department, email and telephone number
  • Organisation details: name and address

Alternatively you can make a confirmed booking by emailing the above information to the bookings team 

Once you have booked your place, SBK Healthcare will correspond with you using the email address you provided at the time of booking. Within one week of the online conference taking place, you will be sent final details of the course including a full agenda, programme timings and your Zoom joining instructions. This email will include a joining link that can be used to access the conference.

If you have not received your email two days before your event, do check your junk folder then contact SBK Healthcare on 01732 897788.

Practice sessions are available and you will be sent an invitation to join one of our delegate practice sessions. These are optional but great if you are unsure of whether your camera and microphone will work on Zoom. We hold several one hour practice sessions across the week when a member of SBK Healthcare staff will be waiting in Zoom to assist you. Please do pop in, say hello and make sure you are all set for the day.

On the day, when registration starts, you will be able to join the conference by initially entering a waiting room when there may be a short wait. When you are automatically brought back into the conference room for the start of the conference, you will be asked to turn off your camera and microphone so that the chair can start the forum. During each presentation you will be able to ask questions in the chat box function. The forum will include screen breaks, as well as topic themed interactive sessions which will take place in the breakout rooms.

Click here to view the specially created 5-minute video that will walk you through how to get the most out of attending your SBK Healthcare interactive online forum.

Certification of attendance

A certificate for Continuing Professional Development will be given to every fully registered participant who completes the course, as a record of your continuing professional training and development.

Registration fees

You will be sent an instant payment option or invoice on registration. Your payment is required in advance. If your fee has not been received prior to the event, and you are not able to provide a PO or proof of payment, you will be asked to make a credit or debit card payment on the day.

Modify registration

To let us know if your details are not correct when you have already registered, please email the bookings team.

Cancellations and substitutions

A full refund of fees will be made only for cancellations received within the first 48 hours of the booking being made. Notice of cancellation must be received in writing by emailing the bookings team at SBK Healthcare. Should you need to cancel your registration after this date, the registration fee remains payable in its entirety although a substitution will be accepted and conference documentation will be provided. Substitution attendees for delegates unable to attend after registering are acceptable at any time.

Event changes

It may be necessary for reasons beyond the control of the conference organisers to alter the content, speakers or the timing of the programme. We will endeavour to keep you abreast of such changes but any unavoidable change to the format will not constitute a reason to refund the fee. Should the event be postponed, we will endeavour to reschedule the event. If, for reasons beyond the control of the conference organiser, the event is cancelled, a full refund will be made. We do not accept any liability for any incurred costs resulting from a postponement or cancellation.

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Expected attendees

This online training course is ideal for NHS professionals involved the full Continuing Care journey of children and their families. 

We are expecting attendance from, but not limited to:

  • Children’s Continuing Care Nurses
  • Community Children’s Nurses
  • Complex Care Community Nurse Specialist, Nurses and Care Co-Ordinator's 
  • Medical Complexity Clinical Nurse Specialist

If you have a team that is 30 people or more, you can have bespoke training delivered online to your team alone. Please contact Sarah Kemm at sarah.kemm@sbk-healthcare.co.uk or call 01732 897788 for further details.

Past attendee feedback

This CPD training course follows on from previous successful Continuing Care training days, such as: ‘Best Practice: Children’s Continuing Care Referral Process’ which took place online in 2024, and was described as ‘really interesting’ and ‘very well organised’. Hear how other attendees have benefitted from shared experiences and guided presentations:

“Great to learn about the experience of other staff in this field, different ways of working and different team approaches”

Best Practice: Children’s Continuing Care Referral Process, September 2024

“I really found this training very interesting and helpful. A lot of great networking”

Advancing Children's Continuing Care, February 2022

“Extremely worthwhile”

Best Practice: Paediatric Complex Discharge, March 2025

“Good networking opportunity and awareness of how other services manage CCC”

Children's Continuing Care, January 2023

“So many interesting points discussed and lots learned in the way other people and teams work”

Evolving your Children’s Continuing Care Team, November 2023

View further comments on SBK Healthcare events on Trust Pilot.

Why sponsor?

Our role at SBK Healthcare is to bring industry together with healthcare professionals so that you can educate and inform your audience. These events offering dedicated presentation, Q&A, networking and discussion time, each sponsor will be full immersed into the event and able to effectively engage with your NHS audience.

Interested in having your own event, managed by us?

SBK Healthcare also provides in-house forums. Working closely with you as the client we can research, produce, market and deliver the conference or online forum that best suits the audience and meets your goals.

Reach out today

If you would like more information on our sponsorship options an in-house forum or if you wish to discuss your needs and what solutions may be appropriate for your business, please contact: 

Sarah Kemm 

Contact: 01732 897788 

Email: sarah.kemm@sbk-healthcare.co.uk