News and Events 2024

Welcome to News and Events

Welcome to the News and Events page here at Mark Gray Associates. Now you can find courses and events that we will be attending, hosting or participating in. 

News Highlights for 2024

Mark is looking forward to starting, as a Non Executive Director of the Thera Trust East Midlands from January 2024 to 2027  along with continuing his new role as the SME lead in Learning Disabilities Nursing for ACER UK working with the NMC. which also  finishes in 2027.

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Conference Speaking

He will also be a keynote speaker at the Unite Scientific Nursing Conference in Munich on the 22nd &23rd April 2024.

Where he will be talking about the prevalence, and detection of CVI in people with a learning disability.

 

 Launch of spring Courses 2024 and Our On line and Face to Face Training courses

We are now running our new Lighting courses for the second year. These  are running  from February  and you can get  for more details dates and costs  by clicking  here Lighting For Older People (Falls Prevention Workshop .

This year we will be running a wider range of both on Line and face to face programme of courses including Dementia and Sight loss, PMLD Masterclasses Brain Injury and Sight Loss, and Mental Health and Sight Loss for me details on prices, dates, and courses  Click Here

We also launch our new course on Autism & Visual Processing Click below for details.

Autism & Visual Processing

 

Mark Gray  announced as the  New Subject Matter Expert Lead For Learning Disability Nursing with ACERUK.

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Mark Gray picture 2022

I have been awarded the contract to be the lead Subject matter expert on Learning Disability Nursing for ACER UK who have a three year contract with the Nursing & Midwifery Council NMC. to maintain develop and extend training & validation entry opportunities for overseas Nurses wishing to join the NMC register.

The contract will run from November 2023 to 2026 

Mark Gray was Keynote Speaker  at two Major Nursing Conferences in 2023.

Last Year I was proud to  has address two International Nursing Conferences on the back of the publication of his Practice Development article in Learning Disability Practice. the conferences were in Rome on the 26th June at Unite scientific Nursing conference and finally in Barcelona at the Word Nursing Education Conference on the 9th to 11th October 2023

New Learning Disability Practice CPD Article on CVI & Sight loss

Mark Gray  features in the latest RCNI Publication Learning Disability Practice. With a continuing practice development article on Cortical Visual Impairment. The Article is now online from  January 2023 having completed the peer review process.

This is  Mark’s  first publication for nearly six years, following his participation in book chapters in the 2016  Pavilion Publication on Health needs of people with Learning Disabilities. For more articles, books, and chapters that Mark has been involved with. Go to our publications page here

 

 

Case Management services Pages

Because we are  committed to shouting a bit more about our less publicised work with Individual clients and families and we now pleased to have permission to share our success stories. Mark Gray Associates are proud to introduce you to our new updated Case Management and Personalised Services Pages , to visit them and find out more  Click here