Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust: Recent Episodes
Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
Welcome to the Summer copy of the insight magazine. This Issue includes how our TEWV staff are 'living the values', PAT dogs joining the Trust and supporting mental health Awareness weeks, along with other stories from around the Trust.
One of our most important priorities for the next three years is delivering our recovery strategy.
February and March 2017 - Living the Values is the chairman's award for staff who have made a difference to service users, carers and families, colleagues or other customers.
The Trust hosted a successful national children and young people’s mental health conference called ‘Let’s Walk Together’, in conjunction with Positive Practice in Mental Health, in May.
York and Selby child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) now provides a single point of access (SPA) for children and young people referrals.
The Trust has been chosen by NHS England as one of two children and young people’s mental health ‘model of care’ pilot sites.
Humanitarian and author Terry Waite CBE is a guest speaker at this year’s Faculty of Psychology for Older People (FPOP) conference being co-hosted by the Trust.
The Trust’s offender health mental health teams are pleased to announce the arrival of two new team members – PAT dogs Cooper and Spud.
Ruth Raven, senior nurse practice placement facilitator, Bootham Park Hospital, York, is a 'Breeze' champion.
The Trust’s mental health and deafness service provides mental health support to deaf service users in County Durham, Darlington and Teesside.
The Trust’s community mental health services team for older people in Redcar and Cleveland is moving to a new home.
We’ve been out and about over the past few months at events around the UK to recruit new nurses to the Trust.
Trust staff work across a wide-range of mental health services, many of which have recently been the focus of national and international awareness days, weeks and events.
Coming to an event? Would you like to speak to your governor or Trust Secretary's team?
Kathryn Ord (pictured), deputy trust secretary, West Park Hospital, Darlington recruits and looks after Trust members. Kathryn and her team are often asked about Trust membership so here’s a quick guide…
As well as caring for and treating people in our hospitals and in the community, Trust staff support offenders in prisons across the Trust who have mental ill health.
We’re working with Durham County Carers Support (DCCS) to help Durham and Darlington carers learn more about mental health illnesses and the treatment and care the Trust provides.
Artwork by east Durham school children is brightening the walls of The Old Vicarage in Seaham - our Easington older people’s community mental health team base.
We are committed to giving staff access to training and development opportunities to help them realise their potential in their current job or prepare for their next post with the rust; Talent Management helps achieve this.
News in brief is a round up of some of the things that have been going on around TEWV. In this issue you can hear about the patient experience Network National Awards, patients enjoying a trip to the movies, autism awareness within the Trust, supporting the 'Roller Coaster' group and news on the new West Park Hospital coffee shop.
Welcome to the Spring copy of the insight magazine. This issue includes a special centrefold of our Making a Difference 2016 winners, a new cinema in Middlesbrough and details to take part in our communications survey, as well as other stories and news from around the Trust.
October, November and December 2016 and January 2017 - Living the Values is the chairman's award for staff who have made a difference to service users, carers and families, colleagues or other customers.
As part of a Trust competition, artistic service users from child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) have been getting creative and designing artwork to feature on voucher wallets which are sent to young people with their payment for any Trust involvement activities they take part in.
A trial using iPads to carry out cognitive assessments in Redcar children’s services has seen positive results. With Q-interactive™ the examiner and the examinee each have synced iPads, so the examiner can see responses, as well as controlling the patient’s screen view.
Every day across the healthcare sector in England more than a million decisions are made that have a profound and lasting impact on people's lives and which influence the quality of healthcare and the cost of services.
The Trust’s second #icanpreventdelirium conference took place in January focussing on the ‘suspect it, spot it, stop it’ message when it comes to delirium in care homes and acute settings.
We’ve recruited five new members of staff to work alongside other health and social care colleagues to provide improved, joined-up care for residents in Harrogate, Ripon and Knaresborough.
Parkside Mental Health Resource Centre (MHRC) in Middlesbrough has been officially opened by Trust chairman Lesley Bessant.
Veterans wellbeing assessment and liaison service (VWALS) support worker David Findlay has helped 93-year-old veteran George Skipper settle into life as a Chelsea Pensioner.
Service users in the forensic learning disability inpatient service at Ridgeway, Roseberry Park, Middlesbrough have been brushing up on their literacy and numeracy skills.
Quality research evidence plays an important part in the delivery of our services and improving the quality of the care we provide.
The Trust’s Innovation Fund has provided £55,000 to six voluntary / community programmes in the York and Selby area to deliver projects to local people who are living with, or at risk of mental ill health and learning disabilities.
We’re keen to find out what you think about information you see or read from the Trust. This includes the information you read in this magazine, our website and social media pages, GP Bulletin and patient and carer information leaflets for example.
Trust staff have walked their way to Tokyo or thereabouts as part of a pedometer challenge.
19 public governor seats are available from 1 July 2017 due to tenures coming to an end and we are looking for new candidates.
Simon Hughes has been a staff governor since the start of the Foundation Trust in 2008 and in June 2017 he will have served nine years, the maximum amount of time a staff governor can be in post before stepping down.
Spirituality and the role it has to play in mental health recovery is the focus of the Trust’s next spirituality conference which will be held at Durham University in July.
Clinical staff across the Trust are taking part in mindfulness courses with their service users in mind.
An insight into is a regular feature within our Trust magazine, featuring a different member of staff each issue. This magazine features Samantha Gavaghan, Library and information services operational manager, West Park Hospital, Darlington.
Three colleagues were named as winners at the prestigious North East NHS Leadership Recognition Awards (NELA) held earlier this year.
Coleen Mercer-Quinn (pictured), who recently retired as a highly specialist clinical/counselling psychologist, Lakeside community mental health team, Middlesbrough, has become the Trust’s first member of staff to be awarded the British Psychological Society (BPS) Fellowship.
It's a year since we launched our PPCS programme, the largest and most significant initiative the Trust has attempted in recent years.
News in brief is a round up of some of the things that have been going on around TEWV. In this issue you can hear about a new cinema that gives patients the chance to socialise more and enjoy a better quality of life, twiddlemuffs and forget-me-not flowers to provide sensory stimulation, the clinical coding team attaining the highest level score for their accuracy, a wishing tree for young people visiting the Acley Centre in Newton Aycliffe, an update on the business plan and a generous donation to Auckland Park Hospital, Bishop Auckland.
As 2016 draws to a close, I’ve been thinking back over the last 12 months. It’s been an eventful year for TEWV (and for me!). It was a privilege to take over from Martin Barkley as chief executive of one of the best performing and well respected mental health and learning disability trusts in the country.
August and September 2016 - Living the Values is the chairman's award for staff who have made a difference to service users, carers and families, colleagues or other customers.
News in brief is a round up of some of the things that have been going on around TEWV. In this issue you can hear about teams across the Trust taking part in a sunflower competition, how staff and clients at Unit 2 Bankfields Court in Middlesbrough supported the Rio 2016 Olympics and Paralympic games, a mini music festival for services users and families was held at Kilton View Day Service and clients and staff from Rowan Ward at Briary Wing, Harrogate District Hospital, Harrogate celebrated their own harvest festival.
Research shows that people with mental ill health or a learning disability have higher rates of physical illness and reduced life expectancy. This is often associated with preventable physical conditions.
An insight into is a regular feature within our Trust magazine, featuring a different member of staff each issue. This magazine features Kath Davies, Senior clinical director, children and young people's services (CYPS) and clinical director, York and Selby child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS), Lime Trees, York.
Arts and crafts activities play a key role in our patient care and recovery and we love to see all of the work that our talented service users create.
Overdale ward at Roseberry Park in Middlesbrough is benefitting from a fundraising project called ‘Katy’s Quest’ led by Lucy Leaver.
A team of specialists is supporting people across the Trust to become more mindful and pay attention to the present moment.
Sarah Talbot-Landon, public governor representing County Durham, talks about her involvement in the Trust.
Since July, staff and governors have been attending as many events as possible highlighting the benefits of being a public member of TEWV.
The Trust and organisations from voluntary and third sectors have been very busy over the last few months spreading the word about what information and support is available for mental health and learning disabilities.
Our staff are our greatest asset. Over the past few months we have concentrated our efforts on recruiting registered mental health and learning disability nurses, committing to offering all successful candidates a permanent position at the Trust.
Our staff flu vaccination campaign started in October and we’re doing all we can to protect our patients, collegues and services from this serious virus.
Almost 300 health professionals went to TEWV’s annual Nursing Conference, held at Ramside Hall, Durham in September.
Mental ill health is more common than you might imagine with one in four people experiencing some form of mental health illness each year.
People experiencing low mood in Durham and Teesside could benefit from a pilot study seeing community pharmacies deliver psychological support.
Over 150 service users, carers and professionals came together at the Trust’s tenth annual learning disability conference in October to discuss national plans to transform care for people living with a learning disability or autism.
The Trust has celebrated the official opening of West Lane Hospital in Middlesbrough after a multi-million pound refurbishment to develop it as a centre of excellence for children and young people.
We’ve seen another flurry of awards and accreditations in recent months, highlighting the positive work of a wide-range of individuals, teams and services.
People now have until 16 January 2017 to give their views on the development of a new mental health hospital for the Vale of York.
The national ‘Freedom to Speak Up’ report into the culture of raising concerns in the NHS, led by Sir Robert Francis, recommended that all NHS trusts should have an independent and impartial source of advice to staff at any stage of raising a concern.
A few words from our Trust chairman, Lesley Bessant and a Christmas message from our chief executive Colin Martin.
Welcome to the Winter copy of the insight magazine. This issue includes the official opening of West Lane Hospital in Middlesbrough, recognition for Trust achievements and nurse recruitment, as well as other stories and news from around the Trust.
News in brief is a round up of some of the things that have been going on around TEWV. In this issue you can hear about smoke free in community services, armed forces day, funds raised for Middlesbrough Mind by TEWV staff, feedback on the business plan, an autism support group set up by the community adult learning disability team and new staff training videos.
The medical staffing team are responsible for providing a human resources (HR) service for all medical staff working in TEWV.
Staff from community mental health teams in York and Selby came together to improve service user involvement in crisis planning.
Trust colleagues have worked with researchers from ITV’s Emmerdale programme on a mental health storyline aired in August.
An insight into is a regular feature within our Trust magazine, featuring a different member of staff in each issue. This magazine features Tracy Hadwin, Clinical lead nurse, adult specialist eating disorders unit, Birch ward, West Park Hospital.
Two members of staff are the first NHS staff in the UK to become certified trainers in the Teepa Snow Positive Approach™ to Care (PAC).
Public governors for the York constituency have been getting to grips with their role at TEWV; finding out more about the Trust and helping us to develop our plans for service delivery across York and Selby.
Over 200 people attended our annual general and members meeting (AGM) in July. This year’s theme was involvement and engagement.
TEWV mental health professionals have delivered a pilot training programme to North Yorkshire Police officers and staff.
The Trust, in partnership with Health Education England’s North East team, has hosted a conference to raise awareness of delirium among healthcare professionals.
The last few months have seen a number of achievements and a flurry of awards for teams across the Trust.
The Trust has worked with researchers from Exeter, York and Kings College London Universities on the COBRA (Cost Effectiveness of Behavioural Activation) study, to assess psychological treatments of depression.
Our annual vaccination campaign to help protect staff and patients from flu will start in October.
An underused plot of land has been transformed into a garden for children and young people with mental ill health.
Service users, carers and staff from adult learning disabilities services have been working together to develop philosophies of care for inpatient and community services.
A one-year pilot, believed to be the first of its kind, is offering patients access to a GP psychologist in their local surgery.
The Discovery Hub, a partnership project between the Trust and York St John University, was officially launched at a ceremony in June.
Specialist inpatient services for people with dementia living in County Durham and Darlington have been centralised at Auckland Park Hospital in Bishop Auckland and Picktree ward in Durham has closed.
Forensic art therapist, Shaun Wassall, has co-written a chapter in a new book, 'Forensic Arts Therapies', about forensic specific art therapy for personality disordered female offenders in a prison setting.
Peppermill Court in York is set to reopen as a 24-bed adult inpatient assessment and treatment unit for the people of York and Selby.
The County Durham child and adolescent mental health service team (CAMHS) has been awarded the Family Action Young Carers Charter for its work to help staff identify and support young carers.
Living the Values is the chairman's award for staff who have made a difference to service users, carers and families, colleagues or other customers.
Coming to an event? Would you like to speak to your governor or the Trust secretary's team?
To publicise your service news in insight, social media or the press, contact the communications team at West Park hospital.
News in brief is a round up of some of the things that have been going on around TEWV. In this issue you can hear about staff at Kilton View day service holding an Alice in Wonderland-themed sensory experience day, a 'butterfly moments' display that helps staff and service users at Ceddesfield Ward, Auckland Park Hospital to share their experiences, excellent staff friends and family test results of Aysgarth, Kilton View, North Tees learning disability community and hospital liaison team in Scarborough and accreditation achievement for the crisis resolution and home based treatment teams in York and Selby and Hambleton and Richmondshire.
The involvement and engagement (I&E) team, formerly known as patient and public involvement (PPI), supports the Trust's framework for involving service users, carers and the general public in the work that we do.
Staff, service users, carers, governors and partner organisations are being asked to have their say on the Trust's 2017-2020 business plan.
A successful book scheme for adults and older people has now been extended to offer young people with mental health problems access to self-help books on prescription.
An insight into is a regular feature within our Trust magazine, featuring a different member of staff in each issue. This magazine features Colin Martin, Chief Executive for Tees, Esk and Wear Valley.
In December 2014 we pledged our support to the Sign up to Safety campaign, a national, three year, patient safety campaign with a mission to make the NHS the safest healthcare system in the world.
A national research trial to help people with severe mental illness stop smoking has signed up its 100th service user.
Janice Clark, public governor and expert by experience talks about how she first got involved with the Trust and how this has benefited her.
The Council of Governors will be hosting its Annual General Members Meeting this year on Wednesday 20 July at Middlesbrough Football Club.
Staff from learning disability services in Teesside have transformed the quality of life of a service user who had been severely traumatised by repeated placement breakdowns.
Nurses in our forensic services at Roseberry Park, Middlesbrough celebrated International Nurses Day in May with a mini awards ceremony.
Staff and service users have been showing their support and raising awareness for Mental Health Awareness Week and Dementia Awareness Week in May.
Staff and service users throughout the Trust have been showing their support and raising awareness for Mental Health Awareness Week in May.
Staff and service users throughout the Trust have been showing their support and raising awareness for Dementia Awareness Week in May.
In March the Trust became completely smoke-free, meaning no one can smoke on any Trust site, including grounds and car parks.
The North Yorkshire looked after and vulnerable children’s (LAC) service, set up to support the mental health needs of local looked after children, is celebrating a successful first year.
New look patient and carer information will shortly be available at the click of a button.
Services users who’ve completed a year-long therapy course have celebrated with an awards ceremony at Ridgeway in Middlesbrough.
Forward thinking professionals from our children’s and young people’s services took centre stage at the inaugural Malta Child and Adolescent Mental Health conference, sharing best practice with colleagues from across Europe.
Ten years ago, in April 2006, TEWV was created following the merger of County Durham and Darlington Priority Services NHS Trust and Tees and North East Yorkshire NHS Trust.
Last year we launched our ‘compassion project’, which was developed to help senior leaders see how their systems impact on patient care and staff wellbeing.
Occupational therapists Rebecca Fisher and Alice Cook, integrated adult learning disability team, County Durham, have been promoting occupational therapy (OT) as a career to local GCSE and A-level students.
A great turnout at a ‘Have Your Say’ event in March allowed the York and Selby learning disability health team to gather valuable feedback from service users, carers and their families on what they think about the service, as well as lots of ideas on how it can be improved.
Service users of Ridgeway's forensic mental health occupational therapy (OT) service at Roseberry Park in Middlesbrough have been taking part in various vocational rehabilitation activities.
May 2016 - Living the Values is the chairman's award for staff who have made a difference to service users, carers and families, colleagues or other customers.
April 2016 - Living the Values is the chairman's award for staff who have made a difference to service users, carers and families, colleagues or other customers.
March 2016 - Living the Values is the chairman's award for staff who have made a difference to service users, carers and families, colleagues or other customers.
Welcome to the Summer copy of the insight magazine. This issue features stories about celebrating TEWV's first ten years, drawing brings thoughts to life, raising awareness to tackle stigma and sensory experience with Alice in Wonderland to name but a few.
Here's an insight into Colin Wilkie, public governor representing Hambleton and Richmondshire talking about his involvement in interviewing for a new Trust chief executive.
An event has been held to celebrate the achievements of the street triage service in Teesside and the publication of an evaluation of the service.
The Making a Difference Awards celebrate the ongoing achievements, successes and hard work of colleagues and teams across the Trust. This year's awards took place on Friday 11 March in Middlesbrough.
News in brief is a round up of some of the things that have been going on around TEWV. In this issue you can hear about Boro FC Christmas visit to West Lane Hospital in Middlesbrough; a student nurse raising funds for Darlington Mind; Celebrating success in York and Selby; Marking nutrition and hydration week at Springwood in Malton; Scarborough, Whitby and Ryedale being HTAS accredited and how a former patient's relative organised a week of events to raise awareness of dementia.
A well workforce means that we are also better able to support our service users and colleagues. Hear how our health and wellbeing team are helping improve the health and wellbeing of all TEWV staff.
An insight into is a regular feature within our Trust magazine, featuring a different member of staff in each issue. This magazine features Stephen Parry, clinical nurse specialist, for our mental health and deafness service for Tees, Durham and Darlington.
Darlington child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) team manager, Tracy Storey, represented the Trust at a youth offending service event, attended by HRH Princess Anne.
A project to move our staff to join bases with the elderly frail unit at the University Hospital of North Tees has been completed with resounding success.
Adult service users are benefitting from a pathway of care addressing the impact trauma may have had on their mental health.
Hear details of how you can get in touch with one of your govenors or the Trust secretary's team
Staff, service users, carers and supporters came together to celebrate the achievements of recovery related projects and practice.
Two films have been co-produced with experts by experience, to help explain how patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) are used at TEWV.
An event to review the liaison and diversion programme in County Durham and Darlington.
An awards ceremony celebrating service users' recovery achievements took place at Ridgeway
The final phase in the building development at West Lane Hospital in Middlesbrough has been completed.
TEWV is working in partnership with the University of St John to help adults with mental ill health access education opportunities.
Our York based hospital liaison service is to be extended to provide out of hours support for children and young people.
We're supporting a national drive to help people with learning disability lead more independent lives.
TEWV staff are working with health and social care professionals as one community team in Harrogate District.
Living the Values is the chairman's award for staff who have made a difference to service users, careers and families, colleagues or other customers.
Welcome to the Spring copy of the insight magazine. This issue includes a special four page feature about our Making a Difference Awards 2015 as well as news from around the Trust.
The criminal justice and liaison team now has a new focus, working with Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs) across Teesside and County Durham to provide mental health advice, liaison and brief interventions to low-to-medium risk offenders.
Graham Peacock, chaplain for the Yorkshire locality gives us an insight into himself, including what he thinks is the best thing about his job and his main ambition in life.
Following our commitment to go smoke free and improve the health of our service users, we are on track to meet our expected launch date of 9 March 2016.
Service users, carers and staff came together at our ninth annual learning disabilities conference 'Colour my day'.
Lesley D'Arcy, clinical nurse specialist based at Lancaster House in Stockton-on-Tees has put pen to paper and written her first book of poems to try and tackle the stigma often associated with mental ill health.
Sally Smith, experts by experience co-ordinator, has joined TEWV as a paid member of staff. Read about Sally and her journey.
Find out how to ask your Council of Governors a question, give comments and feedback, as well as the dates of the next Board of Directors and Council of Governors meetings.
Trust governors have been out and about at lots of events, read about the work they've been involved in.
Throughout November and December we ran a campaign to elect new public members to support TEWV throughout North Yorkshire, especially within our new constituencies of York and Selby.
We have been hosting our highly successful information showcases over the last few months to raise awareness about the amount of support and advice available to the public.
Five prestigious awards have been brought home by our staff, a real testament to their hard work and dedication. Read more about the winners...
Mental ill health is more common than you might think, with one in four people experiencing some form of mental health problem each year. We've been marking day with a number of events.
A two year, successful trial could pave the way to provide bespoke care for service users experiencing more stable but enduring service needs.
A new crisis assessment suite at Roseberry Park, Middlesbrough is providing support to people in a mental health crisis 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
We're battling the bugs again this winter, with a Trustwide flu vaccination campaign for our staff.
This year 80 staff reached the milestone of working in the NHS for 25 years, and many attended our long service awards ceremony to mark the occasion.
Service users, carers and governors have been helping us explore the best way forward in reporting and using patient reported outcome measures (PROMs).
Durham adult learning disability specialist health team has worked with one of their service users, Jack, to overcome his anxiety.
Mental health and learning disability services for people in the Vale of York transferred to TEWV on October 2015.
Living the Values is the chairman's award for staff who have mad a difference to service users, carers and families, colleagues or other customers.
The Summer issue of the insight magazine features stories about the TEWV Arts exhibition, as part of mental health awareness week, County Durham and Darlington child and adolescent mental health services crisis and liaison service and TEWV's kaizen promotion office team to name but a few.
Here when the next copy of insight magazine is due and how to contact the communications team.
Living the Values is the chairman's award for staff who have mad a difference to service users, carers and families, colleagues or other customers.
Volunteering can be a rewarding experience, which benefits not only the service and the organisation, but also the individual. Here's how ...
There were mixed emotions at this year's nursing conference as staff said fare and thank you to director of nursing, Chris Stanbury and welcomed her replacement Elizabeth Moody to the Trust.
A pilot scheme, which is part of the Living Longer Lives programme, sees TEWV using an improved screening tool.
Elizabeth Moody, executive director of nursing and governance gives us an insight into her, including what she thinks is the best thing about her job.
The Trust, together with NHS Harrogate and Rural District clinical commissioning group (CCG), has been awarded Yorkshire and Humber Dementia Quality Award.
Following on from the success of the staff retreats, TEWV held its first retreat for service users and staff in May.
Gillian Restall, public governor for Stockton-on-Tees, held an event in June during carers' week, as part of her wider support group Northern Baptist Church Young@Heart.
Once again there was a full house at the Annual General and Members Meeting this year with over 200 attendees. This year's theme was young carers.
The flu vaccine is still the best protection we have against an unpredictable virus which can cause severe illness and deaths each year among at-risk groups.
Nicola Wigington, CQUIN facilitator at West Lane Hospital in Middlesbrough is leading the way in TEWV as a patients experience lead in child and adolescent mental health services.
TEWV's healthcare assistant framework is helping new and existing healthcare assistants to improve their career development.
Rowan Lea at Cross Lane Hospital, Scarborough is the first ward in Scarborough, and across our mental health services for older people, to pilot the Institute of Psychiatry safewards project.
A new Section 136 place of safety assessment suite has opened at Harrogate District Hospital.
The Trust's new specialist inpatient rehabilitation and recovery unit, The Orchards in Ripon, opened its doors for the first time during an open day in July.
Our Darlington and Teesdale mental health team for older people was part of a multi-disciplinary team that won the Best Integration Project of the Year award in the North East and Cumbria commissioning awards.
Positive behaviour clinics are being held across the Tees area to support people working with children who have behaviour difficulties.
A new crisis and liaison service opened on Teesside in July, providing quick support to children and young people who are in a mental health or emotional crisis.
Improved standard inpatient and community discharge letters have been developed by working with GPs, staff, service users and carers.
Paper cranes from our TEWVArtts exhibition held in May have winged their way to Japan with scouts and scout leaders from across North Yorkshire and Cleveland to form part of a memorial display.
A few words from the Trust’s Chairman Lesley Bessant about what she’s been doing recently.
Meet the rest of the winners and highly commended teams and individuals who were presented with their glass awards at the presentation evening. Debra Wood is winner of the very special Chairman's unsung hero award and Eric Jones, highly commended...
Meet the winners and highly commended teams and individuals presented with their glass awards at the presentation evening.
Now in its eighth year, the Trust's Making a Difference Awards ceremony is a wonderful opportunity to celebrate the ongoing achievements, successes and hard work of colleagues and teams across the Trust...
A brief update on Award for inclusive unit; green fingered staff raise awareness; changing the landscape; Investing in young people and baking for B-eat.
As part of #Timetotalk day, staff from the child and adolescent mental health service crisis and liaison team at Lanchester Road Hospital in Durham took five minutes to have a cup of tea and talk about their mental health.
The Mental Health Research Group (MHRG) is an academic unit, established in 2008 as a joint initiative between TEWV and Durham University. The focus of the group's two research programmes: Youth Mental Health and Primary Care Mental Health is on clinical trials.
A team from the Royal College of Psychiatrist's Quality Network for Forensic Mental Health Services visited Roseberry Park in Middlesbrough to look at its forensic services.
We have been awarded the prestigious gold standard by national business accreditors Investors in People (IIP).
Christopher Williams, chief pharmacist gives us an insight into him including what he thinks is the best thing about his job, how he spends his leisure time and his claim to fame.
An initiative that offers work experience to young people with additional learning needs or autism is being piloted in Scarborough, Whitby and Ryedale.
Hartlepool psychosis team is the first service to roll out the model line programme since it was piloted by teams in Stockton-on-Tees and Durham in 2014.
As lead governor I was interviewed by two Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspectors in January, as part of the wider Trust's CQC inspection.
Details of how to get in touch with the Council of Governors and upcoming events you can attend.
The Mental Health Legislation Committee (MHLC) has two new members who are both public governors and services. This is the first time that governors have served on the committee of the Board.
Governors from the improving the experience of service users committee put their taste buds to the test, to seek assurance on the quality and choice of patients' meals.
The care programme approach (CPA) project is going from strength to strength, focusing on the service user, creating a culture of the person using the service as the 'expert by experience'.
An artist in residence at the Mental Health Research Group (MHRG) is working with young people, clinicians, researchers and students on Teesside to identify ways to tackle images and portrayals of mental health stigma.
Anthea Motson, project lead and Linda Sloan, project facilitator have been working across TEWV to deliver carer awareness training sessions to staff.
Forensic mental health and learning disabilities services at Ridgeway in Middlesbrough, hosted their first recovery awards to celebrate service users' achievements.
Physiotherapy staff, in mental health service for older people at Auckland Park Hospital, have successfully worked with one of their patients to achieve his goal of becoming mobile enough to attend his youngest granddaughters' christening.
Joanne Fenwick, community nurse with the older peoples community mental health service in Malton, successfully recruited the 1000th volunteer to Join Dementia Research in December last year.
The Trust is amongst the first 100 organisations nationally, and one of the first ten mental health trusts in the country to bring in Schwartz Rounds to deliver more compassionate care.
A new Scarborough acute liaison psychiatry service was launched in January. Staff from the team are working alongside their colleagues at Scarborough General Hospital, accident and emergency (A&D) department, to improve services for people with mental ill health.
Easington community mental health team is working more closely with Blackhall GP Surgery as part of a pilot project to improve dementia diagnosis, and care for older people in North Durham and Easington.
Christina Clark, ward manager at Overdale Unit, Roseberry Park in Middlesbrough is calling for staff and patients to follow in her footsteps and go smoke free.
In March, Grahame Morris, MP for Easington, officially opened a new base in Seaham for mental health services for older people.
Laura Kerridge (pictured), one of our staff nurses, has recently completed the NHS Leadership Academy's six month frontline nursing and midwifery course.
One of our young people's units at West Lane Hospital in Middlesbrough has been given a complete make-over.
Teams from across the Trust came under the spotlight in January when Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspectors visited around 70 inpatient wards and 50 community teams.
Living the Values is the chairman's award for staff who have made a difference to service users, careers and families, colleagues or other customers.
Across the Trust we work with various agencies to make sure people with mental ill health get the help they need as quickly as possible. Our street triage teams of mental health nurses work with Cleveland Police and North Yorkshire Police to identify those who need our services, and to reduce the number of inappropriate detentions made under Section 136 of the Mental Health Act.
We have opened a new ‘place of safety’ area at Cross Lane Hospital in Scarborough. A ‘place of safety’ is somewhere that the police can take people for up to 72 hours if they think they have mental ill health and need to be kept safe.
The TEWV spirituality flower has been getting a lot of attention. This is a picture of a flower with words written on the petals to explain what spirituality is.
On 1 July we took over two services in North Yorkshire. These services used to be run by another NHS Trust called Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
A new project is helping staff who work in acute hospitals in Teesside, like James Cook Hospital, to spot the signs of an illness called delirium. Delirium is very serious confusion that can happen when someone is unwell.
Clients and staff from Bek, Talbot and Ramsey wards at Lanchester Road Hospital in Durham have been celebrating their hard work with the naming and opening of their new allotment garden.
TEWV wants to be the best employer it can be and this includes recognising and supporting our diverse workforce.
A new cinema room has been created for service users to enjoy at Aysgarth, our adult learning disabilities respite unit in Stockton-on-Tees.
A new team, called the community rehabilitation and recovery team, is helping service users in Durham who might be getting unwell, to try to save them having to go into hospital.
Jo Smith, who is our head dietician, has been chosen to be the chair of the mental health group of the British Dietetic Association.
We now have 13,448 Trust members and people recently voted to choose some new Trust governors.
The Trust is going to spend more than £5m over the next two years to make buildings nicer for patients and staff.
Living the Values is the chairman’s award for staff who have made a difference to service users, carers, families or colleagues. This month staff from Hamsterley ward at Auckland Park Hospital, Bishop Auckland were chosen by the Trust chairman Lesley Bessant as winners of the award.
Patients on Brambling ward at Ridgeway, Roseberry Park in Middlesbrough can use the kitchen for the first time.
Our ‘insight into’ article is in each magazine. In it we ask a member of staff a set of questions so we can get to know them a bit better. In this issue we’ve been talking to Shaun Wassall. He’s an art therapy clinical lead, and he works at the Primrose Service at Low Newton Prison and Young Offenders Institution in Durham, and at Ridgeway at Roseberry Park in Middlesbrough.
The Council of Governors is always keen to hear from members. Do you have a comment, feedback or a question you would like to ask?
In August we had our annual general meeting. This is the seventh time we’ve had this meeting and more than 230 people came along to the event at Middlesbrough Football Club.
Congratulations to three of our psychiatrists from Teesside older people’s services, who’ve got an award from the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
At the Friarage Hospital in Northallerton, staff and patients have turned a garden area that wasn’t being used into an allotment for people to enjoy while they’re staying on ward 15.
Staff and patients on ward 14 at The Friarage Hospital in Northallerton have been making the garden nicer on the mental health services for older people ward. To celebrate, they had a garden party with afternoon tea and have been painting and making crafts on a garden theme.
Patients and staff on Maple ward at West Park Hospital, Darlington, have created a large, colourful picture of a tree on one of the ward walls called the positivity tree’.
Young service users and staff from North End House in Durham are enjoying a lovely new garden which they have made together.
A few words from the Trust’s Chairman Lesley Bessant about what she’s been doing recently.