RCN East Kent Branch event - 'Thinking about brain health'
CPD event
25 Mar 2026, 17:00 - 20:00
Choose event information:
All East Kent members are invited to attend this learning event on brain health.
Agenda:
Session 1:
'Understanding Traumatic Brain Injury'
Delivered by Headway, the brain injury charity
- How brain injury affects memory, behaviour and decision-making
- The hidden challenges families and carers face
- Practical communication strategies that really work
- How brain injury links to mental capacity decisions
Session 2:
'Dementia and decision-making talk'
Delivered by Patricia Brown, Director of Clinical Care & Quality at PCB Consultancy Ltd and RCN South East Board Member
- What 'mental capacity' means in practice
- How to assess capacity correctly
- How to avoid assuming dementia equals lack of capacity
- How to manage family disagreements
- How to make lawful, ethical 'best interests' decisions
- Guidance under the Mental Capacity Act 2005
Book your place using the button above.
croydon.office@rcn.org.uk
Canterbury Academia Centre
Kent and Canterbury Hospital
Ethelbert Road
Canterbury
CT1 3NG
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