A Hackathon is an event which brings people together to share ideas and then develop solutions to problems. The difference about an event such as this is that it provides a forum for different perspectives and enables working together in a creative way to devise a clear plan.
After previously being named Best Dementia Training Initiative at the recent 2016 Dementia Care awards in November, Time for Dementia has now also won the Laing Buisson award for Innovators & Leaders in Excellence in Training.
Time for Dementia is run by the Centre for Dementia Studies, a joint initiative of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Brighton and Sussex Medical School, in partnership with the University of Surrey, the Alzheimer’s Society and Surrey and Sussex Borders NHS Foundation Trust.
The Trust’s older people’s services are engaged closely with primary care and other stakeholders in Calderdale as part of the Vanguard Integrated Community Model.
We are working on a similar model of Care Closer to Home in Calderdale as we have in operation in Kirklees, looking at how we can bring physical health and mental health needs to a joint approach through better linking the Trust’s older people’s mental health services with the locality teams.
The police liaison scheme is run in Kirklees and Calderdale and involves mental health nurses working alongside officers at Halifax and Huddersfield police stations to recognise the signs of mental illness. This ensures fewer people with mental health conditions are placed on Section 136 of the Mental Health Act, held in a cell or admitted to A&E when there are more appropriate ways of providing health care for them. The scheme also enables practitioners to visit victims and witnesses at home and support police officers at the scene of an incident.
NICE is calling on general practice staff to assess the mental health of all women who have recently given birth, as fears some may be left unsupported.
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