The conference aims to bring together practitioners from multi disciplinary backgrounds who are involved in moving and handling people, including healthcare workers involved in the assessment, equipment recommendation and moving and handling of people in NHS Acute Care, Community Care, Private Healthcare, Social Care, Charities, Nursing & Independent Care Homes and Hospices as well as: -

• Ambulance Personnel
• Care Home Workers
• Consortium and Community Equipment Store Managers
• Community Care Workers
• Day Centre Workers (dealing with clients with a range of long term disorders)
• Educationalists/trainers providing moving and handling training
• Equipment Loan Store Managers
• Emergency Service Managers & Workers
• Healthcare Assistants working in acute and primary care
• Health & Safety Managers & Trainers
• Homecare Managers
• Hospice Workers
• HR Directors/Officers/HSE Inspectors/Field investigators
• Moving & Handling/Back Care Advisors and Trainers
• Nurses working in acute and primary care
• Nursing & Care Agencies Workers
• Nursing Home Managers
• Occupational Health Staff
• Occupational Therapists
• Paediatric Carers & Therapists
• Paramedics
• Physiotherapists
• Primary Care Managers
• Private Care Providers
• Procurement, Purchasing & Supply Managers
• Risk Managers
• Social Workers