Committee vacancies will be advertised annually in August / September and so any members wishing to get more actively involved should look out for details of these or contact the region to register their interest.
CURRENT COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Contact: southwest@apcp.org.uk
Hilary Bacon
Regional Chair
Amy Chambers
Regional Representative
Tania Bronham
Neil Gokani
Neil has a physiotherapy degree from Cardiff University and an MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice in paediatrics.
He has worked as an Associate Lecturer as well as having vast experience of working within community paediatrics at an Advanced Level, supporting Consultant Paediatricians with the developmental follow-up of premature infants in the community, as well as implementing NICE guidance around this. He previously spent time working in Vancouver, Canada in-between working in various community paediatric posts around the UK. He currently works as Head of Service for Children’s Physiotherapy in Bristol, South Gloucestershire & North Somerset for Sirona Care & Health (NHS).
Neil feels that the APCP is a fantastic network and is keen to join the South West Region Committee to support colleagues in the Region by helping to promote training and education in the Region and to develop networking opportunities within the Region.
Anna Jones
Anna is Highly Specialist Paediatric Physiotherapist at Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
As well as being a member of the APCP South West Region Committee, Anna also sits on the Cerebral Palsy Integrated Pathway (CPIP) National Network as a representative for the South West.
She has been actively involved with driving CPIP forward locally which has included setting up an interdisciplinary initiative with radiography for hip imaging. This work has been presented at the APCP Conference 2018.
Anna has recently returned from a trip to Sri Lanka, volunteering with the charity PhysioNet working.
Faye Mason-Elias
Becky Poulding
Rachel Rapson
Rachel Rapson is a Clinical Manager in South Devon for the Paediatric and Adult Learning Disability Physiotheraphy teams. She has a special interest in cerebral palsy and is undertaking a PhD, funded by the NIHR, focusing on a novel interactive training device to improve mobility in children with CP.
Katie Smallridge
Jo Walton
Caroline Webster