Care programme approach in action
The care programme approach (CPA) project is going from strength to strength, focusing on the service user, creating a culture of the person using the service as the 'expert by experience'.
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Artist in residence supports mental health research work
An artist in residence at the Mental Health Research Group (MHRG) is working with young people, clinicians, researchers and students on Teesside to identify ways to tackle images and portrayals of mental health stigma.
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Let's get physical!
A new project at TEWV is aiming to improve the physical healthcare (PHS) of patients.
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First for carers
Anthea Motson, project lead and Linda Sloan, project facilitator have been working across TEWV to deliver carer awareness training sessions to staff.
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Spotlight on recovery at service user awards
Forensic mental health and learning disabilities services at Ridgeway in Middlesbrough, hosted their first recovery awards to celebrate service users' achievements.
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Getting to the church on time
Physiotherapy staff, in mental health service for older people at Auckland Park Hospital, have successfully worked with one of their patients to achieve his goal of becoming mobile enough to attend his youngest granddaughters' christening.
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1000th volunteer recruited
Joanne Fenwick, community nurse with the older peoples community mental health service in Malton, successfully recruited the 1000th volunteer to Join Dementia Research in December last year.
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Schwartz rounds improve patient care
The Trust is amongst the first 100 organisations nationally, and one of the first ten mental health trusts in the country to bring in Schwartz Rounds to deliver more compassionate care.
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Scarborough acute liaison psychiatry team
A new Scarborough acute liaison psychiatry service was launched in January. Staff from the team are working alongside their colleagues at Scarborough General Hospital, accident and emergency (A&D) department, to improve services for people with mental ill health.
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Pilot clinic opens in GP practice
Easington community mental health team is working more closely with Blackhall GP Surgery as part of a pilot project to improve dementia diagnosis, and care for older people in North Durham and Easington.
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Call to follow
Christina Clark, ward manager at Overdale Unit, Roseberry Park in Middlesbrough is calling for staff and patients to follow in her footsteps and go smoke free.
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The Old Vicarage is officially open
In March, Grahame Morris, MP for Easington, officially opened a new base in Seaham for mental health services for older people.
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Developing leadership
Laura Kerridge (pictured), one of our staff nurses, has recently completed the NHS Leadership Academy's six month frontline nursing and midwifery course.
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Great place to work
The Trust has been given huge thumbs up in the national survey of NHS staff.
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New-look Newberry
One of our young people's units at West Lane Hospital in Middlesbrough has been given a complete make-over.
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Staff shine under CQC spotlight
Teams from across the Trust came under the spotlight in January when Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspectors visited around 70 inpatient wards and 50 community teams.
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Living the Values award
Living the Values is the chairman's award for staff who have made a difference to service users, careers and families, colleagues or other customers.
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Introduction and a few words from our Trust Chairman
An introduction to TEWV's insight newsletter and a few words from Lesley Bessant.
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Successful pilot leading the way (Autumn-14 Insight magazine)
Across the Trust we work with various agencies to make sure people with mental ill health get the help they need as quickly as possible. Our street triage teams of mental health nurses work with Cleveland Police and North Yorkshire Police to identify those who need our services, and to reduce the number of inappropriate detentions made under Section 136 of the Mental Health Act.
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Place of safety success (Autumn-14 Insight magazine)
We have opened a new ‘place of safety’ area at Cross Lane Hospital in Scarborough. A ‘place of safety’ is somewhere that the police can take people for up to 72 hours if they think they have mental ill health and need to be kept safe.
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News in brief (Autumn-14 Insight magazine)
A quick round up of news from around the Trust.
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Let's talk about it (Autumn-14 Insight magazine)
The TEWV spirituality flower has been getting a lot of attention. This is a picture of a flower with words written on the petals to explain what spirituality is.
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Two new services for TEWV (Autumn-14 Insight magazine)
On 1 July we took over two services in North Yorkshire. These services used to be run by another NHS Trust called Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
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Think delirium (Autumn-14 Insight magazine)
A new project is helping staff who work in acute hospitals in Teesside, like James Cook Hospital, to spot the signs of an illness called delirium. Delirium is very serious confusion that can happen when someone is unwell.
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The Together Garden is officially named (Autumn-14 Insight magazine)
Clients and staff from Bek, Talbot and Ramsey wards at Lanchester Road Hospital in Durham have been celebrating their hard work with the naming and opening of their new allotment garden.
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Supporting staff (Autumn-14 Insight magazine)
TEWV wants to be the best employer it can be and this includes recognising and supporting our diverse workforce.
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Setting the scene (Autumn-14 Insight magazine)
A new cinema room has been created for service users to enjoy at Aysgarth, our adult learning disabilities respite unit in Stockton-on-Tees.
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New support service in County Durham (Autumn-14 Insight magazine)
A new team, called the community rehabilitation and recovery team, is helping service users in Durham who might be getting unwell, to try to save them having to go into hospital.
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National appointment for Jo (Autumn-14 Insight magazine)
Jo Smith, who is our head dietician, has been chosen to be the chair of the mental health group of the British Dietetic Association.
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Membership update (Autumn-14 Insight magazine)
We now have 13,448 Trust members and people recently voted to choose some new Trust governors.
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Major boost for buildings (Autumn-14 Insight magazine)
The Trust is going to spend more than £5m over the next two years to make buildings nicer for patients and staff.
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Living the values award (Autumn-14 Insight magazine)
Living the Values is the chairman’s award for staff who have made a difference to service users, carers, families or colleagues.This month staff from Hamsterley ward at Auckland Park Hospital, Bishop Auckland were chosen by the Trust chairman Lesley Bessant as winners of the award.
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Kitchen opened up to Ridgeway patients (Autumn-14 Insight magazine)
Patients on Brambling ward at Ridgeway, Roseberry Park in Middlesbrough can use the kitchen for the first time.
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Insight into (Autumn-14 Insight magazine)
Our ‘insight into’ article is in each magazine. In it we ask a member of staff a set of questions so we can get to know them a bit better. In this issue we’ve been talking to Shaun Wassall. He’s an art therapy clinical lead, and he works at the Primrose Service at Low Newton Prison and Young Offenders Institution in Durham, and at Ridgeway at Roseberry Park in Middlesbrough.
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Governors get involved (Autumn-14 Insight magazine)
Trust governors have been out and about at lots of events recently.
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Governor question time (Autumn-14 Insight magazine)
The Council of Governors is always keen to hear from members. Do you have a comment, feedback or a question you would like to ask?
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Full house at the AGM (Autumn-14 Insight magazine)
In August we had our annual general meeting. This is the seventh time we’ve had this meeting and more than 230 people came along to the event at Middlesbrough Football Club.
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Fellowship trio (Autumn-14 Insight magazine)
Congratulations to three of our psychiatrists from Teesside older people’s services, who’ve got an award from the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
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Enjoying a taste of the outdoors (Autumn-14 Insight magazine)
At the Friarage Hospital in Northallerton, staff and patients have turned a garden area that wasn’t being used into an allotment for people to enjoy while they’re staying on ward 15.
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Day for celebration (Autumn 2014 Insight magazine)
Staff and patients on ward 14 at The Friarage Hospital in Northallerton have been making the garden nicer on the mental health services for older people ward. To celebrate, they had a garden party with afternoon tea and have been painting and making crafts on a garden theme.
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Branching out on Maple ward (Autumn-14 Insight magazine)
Patients and staff on Maple ward at West Park Hospital, Darlington, have created a large, colourful picture of a tree on one of the ward walls called the positivity tree’.
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Award winning garden wins results (Autumn-14 Insight magazine)
Young service users and staff from North End House in Durham are enjoying a lovely new garden which they have made together.
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A few words from the Trust's Chairman (Autumn-14 Insight magazine)
A few words from the Trust’s Chairman Lesley Bessant about what she’s been doing recently.
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