Mental Health Training for Frontline Workers : 11th February 2013

To find out about and book this two day course please click on the link below:-

 

http://liveitwell.org.uk/docs/blogs/blogs_all/A4%20Poster%20Frontline%20Staff%20Dartford%20_Final.pdf

To see the Itinerary for the course click below:

http://liveitwell.org.uk/docs/blogs/blogs_all/A5%20Leaflet%20MH%20Frontline%20Staff%20Dartford%20v3.pdf

West Kent HealthNetwork

West Kent CCG covers Sevenoaks and the Weald, Maidstone, Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells. It is the largest CCG in Kent and is committed to hearing from as many of its local residents and patients as possible to develop a health care system with real insight and involvement. To find out more click on the link to read Patient Experience & Engagement Manager, Natasha Wright's letter.

http://liveitwell.org.uk/docs/blogs/blog_maidstone/WK%20CCG%20letter.pdf

To sign up for the West Kent CCG HealthNetwork click on the application form below:

http://liveitwell.org.uk/docs/blogs/blog_maidstone/WK%20CCG%20Application%20Forma.pdf

Recovery Group Information Day
Service User trainers wanted to co-facilitate recovery groups. For more information and to apply
please click on the link below.
http://liveitwell.org.uk/docs/blogs/blogs_all/Recovery%20Group%20poster.pdf

Heart of the Matter October Newsletter

Much apologies for the delay in uploading this newsletter.

Lots of excellent information on the NHS Consultation on Acute Patient Care/Cluster Pathways and much more.  Click on the link below:-

http://liveitwell.org.uk/docs/blogs/blogs_all/Heart%20of%20the%20Matter%20Newsletter.pdf

Mental Health Support/Action Event at Maidstone on 25th January

MIND are running these national events on the themes of campaigning and influencing the new NHS structures and the tools people need to effectively do so, to showcase peer support research, highlighting interesting and innovative projects, and to look at challenging discrimination through workshops run by Time to Change champions.

The Kent event will be in Maidstone. For further details and to book a place please click on the link below:

http://liveitwell.org.uk/docs/blogs/blogs_all/Take%20mental%20health%20action_A5_v8.pdf

Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training

Two free places are being offered to voluntary and community organisations for this two day course in February.  For more information please click on the link below.

http://liveitwell.org.uk/docs/blogs/blogs_all/ASIST%20Information%20Leaflet.pdf
http://liveitwell.org.uk/docs/blogs/blogs_all/ASIST%20poster.pdf

Dear All

We are looking at how to improve services for people in a mental health crisis. We launched a public consultation on mental health crisis care services in July and want to hear people’s views. The deadline for responses is 26 October and we’d be grateful if anyone who uses or is involved with mental health services would please complete the survey.

Here is a short film on our YouTube channel which explains what the proposals are and why they are needed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PNHI91ovVs

Here is the link to the online survey to have your say: http://www.kmpt.nhs.uk/adultacuteconsultation

There’s also more information on the KMPT website: http://www.kmpt.nhs.uk/acute-mental-health-review

Many thanks for your help.

Emily Turner

Communications and Media Manager

NHS Kent and Medway

Brook House

John Wilson Business Park

Whitstable

CT5 3DD

KMPT Foundation Trust Public Engagement Event

The Kent and Medway Partnership Trust (KMPT) are holding a series of events to enable the public, some of whom will be service users and carers, to open up a dialogue with members of KMPT's Executive team in finding out about the values, visions and future plans of the organisation, and how this inter-links with KMPT's application to become a Foundation Trust.

The West Kent event is on 19 April, 18:30 - 20:30, at

Maidstone Community Support Centre (Halls 2 & 3)
39-48 Marsham Street
Maidstone
ME14 1HH

Service user and carer involvement - 15 Steps Challenge

We all know that first impressions count and when walking on to a hospital ward the first “15 Steps” will give you an impression of what is happening on the ward. The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement are developing the 15 Steps Challenge, a tool to support ward walk arounds, looking at productive wards from the patient perspective. The programme identifies simple things like protecting meal times, protecting drug rounds and preventing interruptions at staff handovers.

The Strategic Health Authority (SHA) are working with mental health trusts across the south of England in developing this tool for mental health, as it was originally developed for Acute Trusts. The Kent & Medway Partnership Trust (KMPT) have adapted this tool slightly to fit in with the productive mental health ward and will be part of the SHA’s work, but in the meantime will use the tool developed.

The process will be that a team of people consisting of non-executive directors, carers and services users, directors, service managers etc. will visit one to two wards every month to audit against the 15 steps criteria (no more that 4 people will be in any team). A programme will be produced and co-ordinated through the Compliance and Risk Management Team who will also work in getting teams together. A briefing session will then be delivered by the Deputy Director of Nursing to the teams.

The dates for the team briefings aimed at a more in-depth explanation of the process are 11th April in Canterbury at 2pm for 90 minutes &10th April at West Malling at 2pm for 90 minutes.

Anyone interested in getting involved in the team visits should contact Janet Lloyd, PPCI Manager Kent & Medway Partnership Trust, via email or on 01227 812034