Cathy Johnson, B.Sc (Hons)., Dip.A.S.S., C.Q.S.W
Cathy Johnson qualified as a social worker in 1977, and specialised in working with people with mental disorders and learning disabilities both in hospital and the community. In 1984 she became Senior Social Worker in the Institute of Neurological Sciences in Glasgow and secretary of the West of Scotland Headway, where she established 7 local support groups and served on the Headway national management committee twice. She was a founder member of the Head Injuries Trust for Scotland where she ran a clinic for head injury survivors which went on to become a day centre. In 1990 Cathy left social work to develop the ScotCare Brain Injury Rehabilitation Unit in Lanarkshire part of the Scottish National Head Injury initiative, going on to become the project development manager and latterly the Unit Director of the Kemsley Unit at St.
Andrews Hospital in Northampton and Chief Executive of the Oakwood Cheshire Home. She set up a case management service in both these units. Cathy left the Kemsley Unit in 1994 to establish Rehab Without Walls. Cathy is a founder member of BABICM and served as chairperson from 2007 to 2010. She has been involved in the development of standards in case management, competencies for Brain Injury Case Managers and the first Code of Ethics for Case Managers. Cathy continues to support BABICM, taking an active role in the annual conference planning committee and as a co-opted member of the National Council. Cathy is also an elected member of the European Brain Injury Society, chairing and making presentations at several European conferences. Cathy has been preparing expert reports for care and case management for catastrophically injured adults and children, especially those with brain and spinal injuries, since 1994.
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