We are very sorry to share the sad news that Pam Simpson has lost her brave fight with cancer. Pam was a long-standing and highly respected member of the moving and handling community.
We are delighted to announce that NBE has now been added to the list of HMRC-approved organisations! This means individual members of National Back Exchange can claim tax relief on their membership fee.
NBE Chair, Sarah Thornton, is delighted to be joining a webinar hosted by Health Integration Partners (the national development and scaling partner) to discuss the positive impact the new High Impact Change Model (HICM) focused on Moving & Handling will have on Wednesday, 22nd April at 12.30pm.
We are delighted to open registration for our first 2026 webinar open to both members and non-members.
Sponsored by A1 Momentum, Avoidable Harm: How failure to provide 24-hour postural care increases patient harm and staff injury risk will be presented by Norma Jane Findlay of Tierco on Tuesday 21st April at 1:00pm.
Registration is open for the next NBE webinar ‘Guidance on leaving slings in place during transportation’ Taking place on Tuesday 31st March at 2:00pm, the webinar will last for around 1 hour with Q&A's. Vicky Henderson will discuss a project which led to a small working party looking at the rationale, evidence and subsequent guidance for leaving slings in place during transportation.
Mary is a 76-year-old lady who lives with her husband who is her main carer. Mary was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease (PD) in July 2022, but noticed symptoms of PD, including a deterioration in her mobility, a couple of years prior to her diagnosis. This case study, from Occupational Therapist Jayne Brewer, highlights the difficulties Mary has experienced with bed transfers, the different ...
In 2022, 1 in 8 people globally were living with obesity, with adult obesity more than doubling and adolescent obesity quadrupling since 1990. That year, 2.5 billion adults were overweight (43%), including 890 million with obesity (16%), while 390 million children and adolescents aged 5–19 and 35 million under-5s were also overweight.
