Mymind is a website www.mymind.org.uk and twitter feed @mymindfeed, developed by Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, to provide children and young people with information about mental health problems. Read more »
LIFT psychology service in Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset offers extensive programme of free psycho-educational courses, including the ‘Wellbeing after baby’ course for any parents or carers who are experiencing anxiety, depression or general stress since the birth of a baby. Read more »
The Complex Recovery Assessment and Consultation (CRAC) Service in Cheshire and Wirral works to enhance existing care pathways by utilising expertise and specialist skills in complex care management. The team also captures on-going audit data looking at detailed analysis of variance leading to prolonged or repetitive use of acute care. Read more »
This project led by Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust aimed to increase young people’s participation in their local mental health services. Read more »
This project led by LIFT psychology in Swindon and Wiltshire delivered workshops to students at Swindon College to raise awareness of the psychological services available for young people in Swindon between 16 and 25 years old. Read more »
Staff at South Staffordshire and Shropshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust have developed a Physical Health Portfolio to ensure best practice in meeting the physical health needs of forensic service users. Read more »
The City and Hackney Primary Care Psychotherapy Consultation Service is an innovative outreach service provided by the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust which supports GPs to manage patients with complex mental health and other needs that result in frequent health service use. Read more »
This service in Hertfordshire provides a fast response and time limited intervention of up to six talking therapy sessions, alongside the wider multi-disciplinary CAMHS Generic team, for children who are looked after by the local authority. Read more »
STORM is a self-harm mitigation model developed at the University of Manchester. It offers skills based training in risk assessment and safety planning to frontline staff and members of the community. STORM also addresses ‘postvention’ i.e. what to do after a serious incident has occurred. Read more »
The Wilderness Foundation deliver three different therapeutic interventions for young people, many of whom have mental health and behavioural issues, in the heart of the Essex wilderness. Read more »
This project led by Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust set out to improve the physical health of people with severe and enduring mental illness. Read more »
The Enfield Early Intervention in Psychosis Service has a clear protocol around physical health monitoring from the point of admission to the service. Read more »
Hume Ward in Springfield University Hospital, part of South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust, is a smoke free zone and smoking is only allowed in an outdoor courtyard at certain times of the day. Read more »
As part of a wider programme to address physical health in patients with mental illness, Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust looked to make improvements on inpatient wards. This involved the use of the pan London CQUIN to financially incentives inpatient wards to address the issue. Read more »
Solent NHS Trust has encouraged closer joint working between staff in the mental health inpatient unit and the diabetes clinic at the local hospital to improve diabetes care for inpatients. Read more »
Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust is pioneering an electronic register that could improve the long-term physical health prospects of people who are prescribed anti-psychotic drugs. Read more »
This service aims to promote resilience of children and young people in Camden and Islington, supporting them to cope with the emotional and behavioural impacts of a parent’s mental illness. Read more »
The Psychologically Informed Consultation and Training (PICT) service supports frontline workers to work more effectively with people living with complex mental health and challenging behaviours in Islington. Read more »
Action on Postpartum Psychosis (APP) is a collaborative project run by women across the UK who have experienced Postpartum Psychosis and academic experts from Birmingham and Cardiff Universities. Read more »