Our guest blogger Sue Duncan from The Haven Project (dedicated to the support and treatment of people with a personality disorder) entertains us with her account of the day ‘the Italians’ went to visit! Fridays at the Haven are generally very chilled, we have the Gardening Group in the morning, booked appointments; lunch followed by [...]
BBC 4 All in the Mind focussed on 22.11.11 on new research that claims to have uncovered that it is more crucial than ever to deal with bullying in schools effectively. The longitudinal study followed children over time to separate bullying from harsh parenting or pre-existing mental health conditions. Part of a huge study, 6000 [...]
A recent blog by Anthony Bateman in The Independent – in case you missed it. http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/09/14/personality-disorders-one-of-the-most-controversial-misunderstood-areas-of-mental-health/
The day started on a sad note – a member of staff here was a close friend of a local man whose brother’s family have all just been murdered. Everybody around them feels very traumatised and upset. A few of us talked about it first thing this morning, and we were all affected by the [...]
Yousuf has arranged for us to go and meet the Chancellor of Kabul Medical University today, and we were planning to go this afternoon – but the Chancellor has to go to an urgent meeting at the Ministry of Health, so we have been asked to go at 0830. We wonder if the urgent meeting [...]
The days starts at 7.30 here – meet for a cup of tea before being driven off the hospital for a 8 am briefing. The briefing was for the whole IMC team, and about eight were there for it this morning: surrounded by flipcharts, to-do lists, everybody with at least one laptop on their lap. [...]
Inside IMH, antique tables with modern PCs , and an elegant sweeping wooden staircase with a huge satellite dish on the roof gave a hectic workaday feel in a setting of well-faded grandeur. The basement bunker was my first appointment, with the recently-arrived head of country security plus our own house’s security guard. I was [...]
Why Kabul and what has this project to do with English PD services? There is a connection, but it is a bit tenuous – and it’s probably better if Bodd explains … “The plane from Bahrain looked to be fairly empty when I did the online check-in , but when I was the last one [...]
After far too long, at last I write again. Amidst the desolate and ransacked landscape of the NHS, a few shoots of new and fresh green life are starting to emerge. Today was one of them – the launch of Growing Better Lives in Slough. After a morning of heavy rain, a week-long teapot crisis, [...]
Each year North Staffs Combined Healthcare NHS Trust recognises its staff and teams who deserve recognition for their work and achievements by inviting nominations for their annual REACH (Recognising Excellence & Achievement in Combined Healthcare) awards. The categories this year included the Service User and Carer Award, which ‘recognises outstanding contributions, made by an individual [...]