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‘Progress through Partnership’, a new report released today by Rethink Mental Illness, has revealed that the majority of Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) do not have clear plans in place for involving people with experience of mental illness in the design and commissioning of mental health services, also known as “co-production”
People with a learning disability are being asked to contribute to new tests which will help improve NHS services ranging from dentistry to acute care, NHS England has announced today.
The NHS Quality Checkers programme sees people with a learning disability employed to inspect local NHS services critically, to provide advice on how they can better meet their needs and those of other patients.
Come and visit our first pop-up library at Severn Fields, Shrewsbury 19th July 11.00am-3.00pm. Join the library, borrow and return books, get help finding information and evidence, set up an Athens account, find out what the library can do for you and your team.
Two £25 vouchers are up for grabs in the library’s ‘Making the Most of Information’ survey.
To take part, just visit http://goo.gl/AdN4ok by Friday 19th February.
A mental health teaching centre for medical undergraduates has been shortlisted for an NHS health education award after encouraging its students to listen and learn from those who know best: the people who use mental health services.
The Psychiatry Teaching Unit (PTU) has been selected as a finalist at Health Education England’s 2017 Excellence in Education Awards, for its innovative approach to educating the psychiatrists of tomorrow – by arranging for them to be taught and assessed by people with personal experience of mental ill health.
1.5 million carers in the UK look after someone with a mental health problem (Carers Trust, 2013). Caring can be a rewarding and fulfilling experience, but it does present particular challenges.
Caring can affect a person’s ability to work, socialise, look after yourself and live fully day-to-day. Caring can put strain on an individual’s finances, especially if the carer has to give up paid employment. It can also lead to social isolation, and 87% carers feel that it undermines their own mental health (Age UK et al, 2012).
We’ve just heard that SSOTP will not be renewing their agreement with SSSFT LKS for library services for this financial year. Because of this we will be reviewing our Be Aware bulletins. Sadly we won’t be accepting any new sign-ups from SSOTP staff and will be withdrawing some of the physical healthcare bulletins that we…