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Issue 34 August/September 2010
Patsy Palmer speaks
P3
at film launch
NHS boss addresses
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our Emerging Leaders
Staff preview of city’s
P5new ‘super hospital’
Top award for our
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Tourette’s specialist
Race for Life:
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full report inside
Chief executive’s message
As our Trust marks its second year as a featured on BBC Radio WM’s Midlands
foundation trust, I must say that we have Masala programme.
achieved much we can be proud of in Service users and staff were also involved in
that time. a dramatic piece of dance theatre – Fit and
In 2008 we had just opened the Barberry Funky: Mind Out – which was showcased at
and Oleaster Centres and now, two years on, The Patrick Centre in Birmingham during the
our new facilities for older adults at Moseley city’s Cultural Olympiad.
Hall – which will be known as the Juniper I am sure we will see much more of that
Centre – are nearing completion. creativity during Arts All Over The Place
Also during this time our near neighbours - next month.
the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, in Edgbaston - Finally I would like to invite you to our
have been watching their new £545m ‘super annual general meeting, which will be held in
hospital’ take shape, and some our staff were Birmingham in late September. Full details will
lucky enough to get a sneak preview before it be available soon on our website –
opened to patients in June. www.bsmhft.nhs.uk.
Both staff and service users have been
raising the profile of our Trust with their
innovative projects recently.
Some of our staff have developed a DVD to
raise awareness of dementia within our Asian
communities, which was launched in July and Sue Turner, chief executive.
Trust’s head of spiritual care to retire New programme
Sandra Thomas has announced she is to
retire from our Trust, to allow her to
and was devoted to her role and to improving
the wellbeing of her the people she worked. for BME staff
concentrate on her recovery, following an Her inspirational leadership and
Our Trust launched a new development
illness last year. dedication to the spiritual care team will be programme for black and minority
During her time here Sandra touched and very much missed. ethnic (BME) staff at Birmingham
contributed to the lives of many staff and An event to celebrate Sandra’s time with the University in June.
services users. Trust will be organised later in the year. The Success Runs in Our Heritage scheme
Sandra joined our Trust in October 2005 aims to boost the number managers and
leaders from such backgrounds within
Check out BBC Headroom website BSMHFT.
The 12-month programme, launched at
the university’s Centre for Excellence for
Interdisciplinary Mental Health on June 7,
will cover areas including leadership,
management and career development.
More than 60 delegates attended this
event, including our chief executive Sue
Turner and Caroline Wigley, director of
leadership for NHS West Midlands.
Evidence shows that people from
ethnic groups are under represented at
the highest levels of management/leadership
in the NHS.
Headroom is a free BBC resource with World Of Pain: Meera Syal On Self Harm.
accessible information on a range of Most films feature ordinary people's
mental health and wellbeing topics.
The BBC Headroom website –
www.bbc.co.uk/headroom - hosts more than
experiences of dealing with mental illness
and can be really helpful for people.
The site also has a comprehensive range
Trust Talk
70 films, with accompanying fact sheets,
linked to programmes such as Terry
Pratchett: Living with Alzheimer's or A
of useful resources offering practical
support to help everyone cope with life's
ups and downs.
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2
Stars support our launch of The Revolving Door
A ground-breaking film which challenges
the stigma surrounding mental health
issues, supported by our Trust, was
premiered at Villa Park in May.
The Revolving Door is a 30-minute film
following a young man’s experience of
mental health and the problems he
encounters, written and produced by local
writers Dan Wilson and Shaun Welch – also
known as Aeon and Evoke.
The film - which follows a young man’s
journey through mental health – has received
high praise from host and Central Tonight
presenter Sameena Ali-Khan, author and
poet Benjamin Zephaniah, former MP Oona
King, now head of diversity at Channel 4, and
actress Patsy Palmer.
Patsy, who attended the launch on May 27,
shared her own mental health experiences in
overcoming depression and addiction to
alcohol and drugs.
She congratulated the film’s cast and crew
for “highlighting an issue that is very close to Patsy Palmer with Lakhvir Rellon, director of community engagement (left) and our chief executive Sue Turner (right).
my heart”.
what we are, human beings,” added Patsy health by exploring not simply what is done
“The stigma’s everywhere. I was quite to us, but what we do to each other.”
fearful about speaking to you all today, but Lakhvir Rellon, director for community
when people tell me about their problems engagement for our trust, said: “Mental
that really helped me, so I was relieved to be health and the community’s reaction to it
around people that are having the same remains one of the last taboos to blight our
problems as me.” society.
The Revolving Door – which has been “This film has been overwhelmingly
backed by The Vine magazine, A&E positively received by our partnership
Productions and the national Time To agencies, members of the trust and service
Change campaign - was produced on a users. It really challenges people to think
shoestring budget of just £2,000. about what they could do support Marcus,
Shaun and Dan visited and talked to who is at the centre of the film.”
patients at the Zinnia Centre, in Sparkbrook, Dan, who is a trained youth worker, said:
and Reaside, in Rubery, as part of their “The film is not so much about Marcus’
research. illness but rather the reaction his condition
Benjamin Zephaniah, author and poet, produces in the other characters. The shock
described The Revolving Door as “a very factor also sparks a dialogue.”
special film”. Shaun added: “It’s almost as if we look at
Patsy shared some of her own mental health He said: “This is the work of a small group mental health with blind eyes. How can you
experiences at the event. of intelligent young people, whose describe the colour blue to a blind man?
Patsy said: “I have suffered from depression intelligence comes from real experiences, We just want to help address the stigmas
and I am in recovery from addiction to drugs and their willingness to look into the mirror. that are out there.”
and alcohol, so this is really close to my heart “They have raised the debate about mental
– and I’m not ashamed to say that.
“If there’s someone here with little
knowledge of bipolar, which is the condition
portrayed in the film, I hope it helped you
understand how hard it can be for sufferers
and their families.
“I am really proud to have talked about my
depression and living in recovery, and to
share that experience with other human
beings. It’s a small start to what is a very big
problem.”
One in four people will experience a mental
health problem during their lifetime. The
Revolving Door stresses how important it is
for services and communities to work
together to support those struggling to
maintain good mental health.
“Mental health knows no age, sex, creed or
religion. It affects all human beings and that’s The launch at Villa Park was attended by more than 300 people.
3
NHS chief executive outlines a
‘challenging future’ for the health service
Sir David Nicholson spoke passionately
about the need for the NHS to put the
patient back into the heart of its services
at a recent NHS West Midlands
Emerging Leaders event.
The chief executive of the NHS addressed
delegates – including several from our Trust
– at the Centennial Centre in Birmingham
on June 1, and urged them to “be the best
that you can be”.
His keynote speech, which focused on the
difference leaders can make to the lives of
patients and their families, also underlined
the event’s theme of resilient leadership for
a challenging future.
Sir David also highlighted some of the key
themes that were likely to feature in the
Government’s White Paper: Equity and
Excellence: Liberating the NHS – a greater
focus on outcomes and quality, more
emphasis on patients choice, and GPs to
have a stronger link to service provision.
The document was subsequently published
in July.
Leading the way for BSMHFT: (Left to right) Andy Esson, Sophia Feurtado, Sir David Nicholson, Carol Burt and
He added: “There will definitely be a new Elisabeth Buggins.
system of leaders. We’ve got the talents, we
just need the commitment and will to make the confidence of their workforce but they Carol Burt, project director for our
it a reality. are also “responsible for building leaders.” Trust and a member of the Leadership
“Our value base has to be putting the Dr Rishi Hazarika, associate medical Council West Midlands, was given the
patient at the centre of what we do.” director at Mid Staffordshire NHS opportunity to do the vote of thanks at the
Sarah-Jane Marsh, chief executive of Foundation Trust, delivered a career case end of the meeting.
Birmingham Children’s Hospital and study on what has helped and hindered his Andy Esson, lead nurse for Adults of
chairman of the West Midlands Regional own personal development. Working Age division, and Sophia Feurtado,
Emerging Group, hosted the event. Delegates got the opportunity to quiz the head of marketing, communications and
Ross Baglin, director of leadership, at the panel – Sir David, Elisabeth Buggins – community engagement for Youth,
Department of Health, spoke about how chairman, NHS West Midlands, Dr Hazarika, Addictions, Secure and Complex Care
future leaders are identified in the private Sue James – chief executive, Walsall division, were among those also attending
sector, based on his experiences at oil Hospital NHS Trust, and Caroline Wigley – the conference.
giant Shell. director of corporate affairs and leadership,
He explained that leaders not only build NHS West Midlands.
How horticulture can create green shoots of recovery
Volunteers and service users are finding One success story is trainee Wayne City and Guilds Level 2 Certificate in
real benefits in the horticultural training Thomas, who began a horticulture taster Gardening in December.
and allotment projects currently run by course at Park Lane Garden Centre, in He is currently studying towards the
our Trust. Aston, in July 2008. Growing Vegetables and Salads module on
He enjoyed the short introductory course this course and has a vegetable plot at Park
on horticultural training so much that he Lane Garden Centre.
enrolled on the City & Guilds Level 1 course Not only has Wayne developed new skills
in horticulture skills. and gained qualifications, but in June he
Wayne completed his training last October began work as a community gardener with
and was justly proud when he received his Inspire Futures in Birmingham.
Certificate in Horticulture Skills in November But while he thoroughly enjoys his job,
2009. Wayne fully intends to continue with his
Now, having completed his training to a training – and tend his own green shoots of
very high standard, he began to develop a recovery.
keen interest in growing his own vegetables,
including a good crop of peppers. l For more information about Park Lane
To further expand and enhance his Garden Centre visit out website
Trainee Wayne Thomas puts his horticultural skills to knowledge, Wayne started studying for a www.bsmhft.nhs.uk
work at Park Lane Garden Centre.
4
Staff get a sneak preview of Birmingham’s
new ‘super hospital’
Days before Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Birmingham opened its A&E unit to
admissions in June, some of our staff
were given an exclusive tour of the city’s
£545m ‘super hospital’.
One of the hospital’s three ‘pods’.
Staff were keen to look around the trio of
distinctive pods which make up the city’s
newest hospital – its first for 70 years –
and landmark. State-of-the-art light pendants installed in all 30 theatres.
Fiona Alexander, director of
communications at University Hospitals Selly Oak, where injured troops are treated, have, both as patients and visitors.
Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust – which will have its own specialist military 32-bed “The single bedrooms on the upper floor
runs the QEHB and Selly Oak – led the tour. unit, which includes a gym, and is run in wards were very light and airy and had great
From the moment staff set foot inside the partnership with NHS medical staff. views, better than a lot of hotels I have
hospital, there was chatter about how clean QEHB also has 30 operating theatres, stayed in.”
and calming everything looked – from the each equipped with specialist lighting Sukhdeep Dhanda, a gateway worker in
wide, spacious corridors, to the layout of the community engagement, said: “This is a
wards and critical care unit. phenomenal building, it transforms the idea
The wards each have 36 beds, split into of what a modern hospital should look like.
single and four-bedded rooms, and all have “I was very impressed with the décor,
buzzer entry. lighting and space available, which creates a
Dedicated imaging facilities, including X- really ‘healing’ environment and a friendly
rays and CT scans, have been incorporated atmosphere.”
into the hospital’s busy A&E unit, to help
reduce the time spent waiting for results. Now that the Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Adjacent to this is a clinical decision unit, BSMHFT staff in the main reception area. Birmingham has opened its A&E
which has 40 beds, for non-emergency department, there are more patients and
admissions – with patients spending less ‘pendants’ which use a mixture of clear, visitors accessing health facilities in
than 48 hours. green and blue lights that not only cast no Edgbaston. However, the Barberry and
Fiona said: “These wards are very different shadows, but can also be programmed to Oleaster centres, are still open for
to the old Nightingale wards, they don’t have highlight different organs, veins or blood business as usual for mental health
names, there’s much more privacy, and vessels during surgery. patients.
they’re multi-speciality – which gives us Seven of these are located in A&E, with a
greater flexibility.” further seven situated in a dedicated day
The Royal Centre for Defence Medicine at case unit.
So what did our staff think of the Did you know?
new hospital? l Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham is
Joy James, training administrator/PA based the biggest single site hospital
at Hollyhill Annexe, said: “I was really development in the country
impressed with the state-of-the-art theatres, l More than 40 per cent of the hospital’s
the operating spot lights were amazing. 1,213 beds are in single rooms
“Although I do not relish the thought of l There are 30 operating theatres, including
needing any of the services provided by the seven in a dedicated day case unit
new hospital, I would certainly feel in safe l It also has a 100-bed critical care unit,
hands and almost look forward to being the largest in Europe
l Staff used 20 ambulances to transfer
treated there.”
Simon Parkes, our Trust’s capital 500 patients from Selly Oak over
developments manager, added: “The main three days
l Volunteers known as Way Finders help
entrance atrium area was very impressive
and not at all like a hospital. This should go a
patients and visitors find their way around
long way towards reducing the fear of
the new hospital
Information desk in the main entrance to the hospital. attending an acute hospital that some people
5
Staff launch new DVD to raise awareness of dementia in Asi
Dementia within Asian communities can
often go undetected, as families may not
realise what is happening to their loved
ones or where they can go for help and
support.
To help raise awareness of conditions like
Alzheimer’s within these communities, staff in
our Mental Health Services for Older People
division, have created a DVD specifically aimed
at our south Asian population.
Dementia Aur Aap – or Vascular Dementia
and the Asian Community – was launched at a
special event, as part of Dementia Awareness
Week, held at Laurel Road Community Sports
Centre in Hands worth on July 9.
Filmed in Hindi and subtitled in English, the
film informs people that symptoms such as
forgetfulness or memory loss should not be
dismissed as part of the ageing process –
Dementia fact file
l Alzheimer’s disease is the most common
type of dementia, affecting 62 per cent of
those diagnosed.
l Vascular dementia is the second most
common type, affecting 17 per cent of
those diagnosed, with one in ten cases
classified as mixed dementia.
l Symptoms can include memory loss, and encourages families to seek advice from support from a dementia adviser. In short
confusion and problems with speech and their GPs. we want to help these people live their lives
Representatives from our trust’s Birmingham to the full.
understanding. Dementia is a terminal
Memory Assessment and Advisory Service “Dementia Awareness Week is a great
condition.
l There are 750,000 people with dementia in
(BMAAS) and the Alzheimer’s Society, who are opportunity to raise the profile of BMAAS which
working in partnership to provide this service, is now live and talking referrals from GPs.”
the UK. By 2021 there will be over 940,000
will also be on hand to answer questions during A person with dementia may have difficulties
people living with dementia.
l Dementia affects 11,000 people from black
the event. remembering, solving problems or
Robin Felton, a BMAAS team manager, said: concentrating. Also memory problems can
and minority ethnic groups in the UK
l More than 60 per cent of all care home
“Working with the Alzheimer’s Society, we aim affect communication if English is not the
to provide a first class service to people in person’s first language.
residents, aged over 65, have a form of
Birmingham with memory or cognitive Vascular dementia is the second most
dementia.
l There are also more than 16,000 people
difficulties. common form of dementia, after Alzheimer’s,
“Our new service will enable them to receive a and is caused by problems in the supply of
under 65 living with dementia in the UK. prompt assessment, diagnosis and follow up blood to the brain.
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6
ian communities Consultant wins top international award for
his innovative research into Tourette’s
A consultant who leads our Trust’s specialist
Tourette’s syndrome clinic has won a
prestigious award from the American
Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA).
Dr Andrea Cavanna, who specialises in
behavioural neurology at our Barberry Centre,
received ANPA’s career development award
at its annual meeting held in Tampa, Florida,
earlier this year.
He was recognised for his work in devising a
quality of life scale, designed to measure how Dr Andrea Cavanna with Paula Trzepacz, MD, ANPA
well Tourette’s patients respond to treatment or President, and his father Alberto Cavanna.
intervention – and the impact that has on their
day-to-day lives. diagnosed with a form of Tourette’s syndrome,
Developed over four years, Dr Cavanna’s scale often with associated behavioural problems such
is designed to rate how patients cope with their as attention deficit disorder or hyperactivity, but
condition in 27 different scenarios in four grows out of it by their mid- to late-teens.
affective areas – physical, psychological, anxiety Our Trust sees some of the most extreme cases
and cognitive. This tool is now used by clinicians involving violent physical tics, involuntary noises or
around the world. socially unacceptable behaviour, but these
Dr Cavanna said: “I worked with more than 300 represent a minority of all patients diagnosed with
people with Tourette’s, both within our Trust and this condition.
through charity Tourette’s Action Dr Cavanna, who received his award in March,
“We see the most severe end of the spectrum added: “I would like to potentially expand the
here, the most difficult cases, and there is Tourette’s clinic, perhaps to two to three days a
Photo posed by model. Courtesy of iStockPhoto. certainly a need for this service. week and instead of seeing 250 patients a year,
“I thought I had a chance of getting the young maybe grow that to between 300 and 400
Bernie Blackledge, a support services investigator’s award, so I was really surprised patients.
manager for Alzheimer’s Society, said: when ANPA contact me to say I’d won the career “There’s a definite need to expand this service,
‘’We’re delighted to be working in development award. I was over the moon when I as Tourette’s syndrome is far more common than
partnership with the Birmingham and found out. people think and a lot of patients have symptoms
Solihull Mental Heath NHS Foundation “I have already been invited to address their which are not properly recognised and treated.
Trust on this project. next two meetings, the first of which is in “Tourette’s needs to be recognised, it needs to
“Raising awareness of dementia and Colorado next year. Basically it’s opened the door be diagnosed and patients need to be referred to
how it can impact on the lives of our to loads of opportunities.” the most appropriate centres, some for
diverse groups and citizens is a high priority BSMHFT is one of just three trusts in the assurance, explanation and management. We can
for us all.” country – along with the National Hospital for also offer behavioural treatment here.
l Dementia Aur Aap will soon be
Neurology and Neurosurgery, and St George’s “People expect Tourette’s to be something really
Hospital, in London – which run specialist odd, with patients shouting, screaming or
available to download from our Tourette’s services for adult patients, and Dr swearing all the time and it’s not like that. In
website – www.bsmhft.nhs.uk Cavanna’s clinic sees about 250 patients a year. reality only a minority of cases display extreme
Globally one per cent of all children are symptoms like that.”
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7
Trust conference
attracts national
experts
Mental health experts from across the
UK supported a suicide prevention
conference, staged by BSMHFT, in June.
More than 120 delegates attended the
event held at City Inn, in Brindleyplace,
Birmingham, which aimed to address
therapeutic and service responses to suicide.
Key note speakers included Professor
Mark Williams, from the Centre for Suicide
Research, Oxford University; Professor
Jenny Shaw, of Manchester University,
and Dr Paddy Power, of St Patrick’s Hospital
in Dublin.
The event, held on June 24, chaired by
Dr Chris Jackson, a consultant psychiatrist in
Simon and his mascot take a brief breather in Dunkirk. our early intervention service.
Consultant psychologist Debbie Williams,
based at Devon House, chaired a plenary
Heroes’ 350-mile ride of remembrance session which aimed to address the
conference’s key themes.
Former RAF policeman Simon Whitehorn Belgium, the cyclists were welcomed at the
joined 275 people to cycle 350 miles daily ceremony held to remember the dead She said: “This conference was an
across France to raise money for armed soldiers commemorated on the engraved indication of YASCC’s learning and
forces charity Help for Heroes in May. panels of this huge arch. development group’s intention to deliver
Simon, a local security management The final day ended in Dunkirk, where the high quality, contemporary and most
specialist for our Trust, set off from charity riders watch a special ceremony to importantly, clinically-relevant training for
Portsmouth where the charity’s riders commemorate the 70th anniversary of the frontline workers.
embarked on the Big Battlefield Bike Ride. British forces’ evacuation in ‘little ships’ from “The subject was a central one for all
He said: “We arrived in Senneville sur the port in 1940. mental health workers. The therapeutic
Fecamp, where it seemed the entire village Simon said: “The opportunity to meet some skills presentations showed some of the
had turned out to see us off. Local school of the Dunkirk veterans was very humbling breadth and depth of clinical responses to
children sang our national anthem and laid and seeing ‘little ships’ in the harbour brought suicidal experiences available to us as
flowers on the graves of four British soldiers home the bravery of those who crossed the mental health workers.
buried there. That set the tone for the week.” channel in their tiny vessels to help rescue “Developing and supporting these within
Each day’s ride started early, with drinks British and French troops.”
our Trust means we will be well placed to
and lunch stops about halfway through each The cyclists returned to Dover on a naval
offer our clients an intervention that is right
stage, sometimes in a village hall, sometimes landing ship, where they were greeted with a
in the middle of a field. flypast by a Spitfire. for them, right for the worker and available
Simon continued: “The first day’s ride took “I met some great people, including a when needed.
us 45 miles up the coast to Dunkirk via St number of servicemen who were there “The service level presentations gave
Valery en Caux, with stops in both towns to thanks to the work of Help for Heroes, and us an opportunity to think about the need to
lay wreaths at local war memorials. being overtaken by a guy who lost his leg in understand suicide beyond a clinical level,
“Day two was the longest day in saddle with Afghanistan last year was both motivating and how the structures within which we
83 miles to cover to Amiens, a town that and inspirational,” he added. provide our services are an important part of
marked the extent of the German advance in This year’s event has raised more than what makes our work possible.
the First World War. £1million for Help for Heroes, and Simon has “The event was a first experience of
“Stops at various cemeteries broke up the raised almost £5,000. working from ‘inside out’ and letting
route. Being cold and wet spurred most ’outside in’. “
riders on with thoughts of a warm hotel, The conference was hosted by our
something those troops would’ve been Youth, Addictions,
thankful for.
Secure and
“The third day was a 75 mile stage from
Complex Care
Amiens to Arras, following the front line of
the Battle of the Somme, an offensive which
division’s learning
resulted in more than 1.5 million casualties and development
between July and November 1916. group, which aims
“We stopped at the British memorial at to help staff to
Thiepval, where we laid wreathes, which grow and learn
contains nearly 73,000 names of soldiers in response to
whose bodies were never recovered or changing needs
identified.” Trust Talk would like to thank Simon for as their career
After pedalling 75 miles to Ypres, in sharing his story. develops.
Professor Mark Williams.
8
Trust’s tribute to Chris Halek at Race for Life
Team BSMHFT in Sutton Park after Race for Life, with their well-earned medals.
After months of preparation, our chief Julie Googan, PA to the director of
executive Sue Turner took on the pharmacy, ran with her daughters Rachael
personal challenge of completing a Race and Stacie, and some of her colleagues –
for Life 5k run in Sutton Park in June. including a couple dressed as gorillas.
Sue, who was joined by colleagues from She said: “Race for Life was a great
across our Trust, decided to enter the opportunity for us all to come together to
women-only race, organised by Cancer support all those loved ones and people who
Research UK, in memory of former deputy have either lost loved ones or who are
director of nursing Chris Halek – who lost survivors of this horrible disease.
her own fight against cancer in February. “Seeing so many people turn out to
Raring to go (left to right) Tonia Cooke, Jackie Jones,
Janet Lince, Chris’s partner, joined Team Bev Boulton, Julie Googan, Jeanette Dudley, with support the runners was a great help, as we
BSMHFT in their special commemoration of Rachael and Stacie Googan. found it hard on some of the hills, but we all
her memory on June 19. kept each other going to the end. It was a
Nearly 3,400 women took part in the event event, and it’s great so many people from fantastic day.”
but one member of Team BSMHFT, Di our trust have taken part today to celebrate
Markman, account director for Heart of Chris’s memory. This year’s Race for Life may be over,
Birmingham locality, finished in the top 20, ”I think we all managed to cross the line but it’s not too late to make a donation
completing the challenging course in a smiling, but that wasn’t hard as we had great to Cancer Research UK. Sponsor Sue at
speedy 29 mins 40 seconds. support and of course, it was all for an www.raceforlifesponsorme.org/sueturner10
Sue said: “This has been a fantastic important cause.” – which closes on September 19.
Sue Coffee (in sunglasses), Sue Turner and Sharon Duffy cross the finish line together. ...and a reminder of why they were there in the first place.
9
Enter West Midlands
Innovations Awards
Ingenious and inventive NHS staff
across the West Midlands are being
invited to enter their trailblazing projects
for a prestigious competition with a
£10,000 prize fund.
MidTECH, the West Midlands regional
NHS innovation hub, is on the lookout for
pioneering techniques and inventions by
staff working in NHS organisations across
the wider West Midlands region.
Once a year the best ideas are selected
as finalists in the Making Ideas Reality
competition.
This year the closing date for entries is
September 14, and the awards ceremony
will be held at the Botanical Gardens, in
Edgbaston on November 25.
Dr David Gleaves, chief executive of
MidTECH, said: “Our competition attracted
more than 60 entries last year and we hope
even more will enter our 2010 awards.
“The ingenuity, enthusiasm, creativity and
commitment demonstrated by NHS
employees in developing new initiatives to
improve care for patients never fails to
impress us.
“Our judges always have a hard time
deciding the winners of our awards because
Neville Brown and comedienne Janice Connolly – aka Barbara Nice – bang the drum for mental health during each one is a winner in its own way.
last year’s event. “Past winners have ranged from ideas for
medical devices and rehabilitation or
Get ready for Arts All Over The Place disability aids to software or other
information technology and publications and
A call has gone out to all artists, poets, the Custard Factory on September 27. training.
performers and creatives across our Poet Simon Pitt will host a performance and “Even if they are not chosen to receive
Trust to take part in this year’s Arts All poetry workshop on October 8, and there are an award, there may be potential to
Over The Place festival, which begins plans for a special closing event on October progress their projects towards commercial
next month. 10, to mark World Mental Health Day. success.”
The festival, which opens to the public on Emma Marks, social inclusion officer and MidTECH is part of a national network
September 27, is staged by the Creatives festival organiser, said: “Last year’s event was of NHS Innovation Hubs, established by
Network for the Arts and Health and our fantastic, with more than 1,000 people the Department of Health to identify,
Trust to illustrate how artistic activity can seeing performances and taking part in protect and commercialise innovative ideas
benefit those with mental health issues. workshops across the city. from the NHS.
Our annual celebration of creativity will “This year I hope even more will come along
again be based at the Custard Factory, in to try something new during the festival, l Staff working at local NHS Trusts
Digbeth, with events taking place at which is what Arts All Over The Place is can find out more about the
various locations. really about.” awards and how to enter by calling
All the events are free and the programme l For more information about submitting 0121 455 0346 or visiting
will cater for all ages, the general public, a piece of work for display and the full www.midtech.org.uk, where they
people with mental health issues and carers. programme of events, contact Emma can apply online.
There will be an opportunity to meet some Marks on 0121 678 2702 or email
of the artists at the festival’s launch event at creatives@bsmhft.nhs.uk.
New drama tackles mental health at work
A new production focusing on work-life engagement, said: “We’re very proud of the employers to come along and take some
balance will be premiered in a input our service users, carers, staff and positive action to see this fun and engaging
Birmingham theatre next month. communities have had in creating show. Why not make it part of your continued
Arts group Community Vibe and our Trust Unworkable, with many sharing their own professional development?”
have researched Unworkable together. experiences.
The show - funded by the Arts Council of “Given the current challenges this economic l Performances on both days at 2.30pm
Great Britain and BSMHFT - is on at the climate brings, we believe this is a must-see and 7.30pm. For more information call
Midland Arts Centre in Cannon Hill Park, for all.” the MAC on 0121 446 3232 or visit
Edgbaston, on September 14 and 15. Rachel Green, company director of www.macarts.co.uk
Lakhvir Rellon, director of community Community Vibe, added: “We really want local
10Wellbeing day
Staff from our older people’s services
Governor Spotlight:
Carl Foulkes,
held a wellbeing day at Apna Ghar, in
Highgate, on July 7.
The event, part of Dementia Week,
stakeholder governor
aimed to raise awareness of dementia
within south Asian communities who may
have difficulty accessing mental health
services.
West Midlands Police
Trust transforms Why did you become a governor we face in delivering a truly top class
unloved allotment of our Trust?
West Midlands Police has had a governor
response to those that are tipping into crisis.
Without my work with the trust I am not
Staff and service users in Small Heath within the trust for a number of years now sure that I would ever have this awareness
are getting back to nature to revive a and I think it is fair to say that both or grasp of the issues.
derelict allotment to create a New organisations have benefited from this
Horizons Green Space. relationship. When the previous governor As we are a Foundation Trust, how do
The unloved plot of land, next to Little moved on I was approached to take over you plan to communicate with your
Bromwich Centre, is set to become a space this position and after speaking to the constituency?
where older people can engage in activities chairman it gave me great pleasure to take Fortunately we have well defined
or just visit the allotment, as part of the Trust’s on the role. communication networks in the force which
recovery model. allow me to speak and update colleagues.
AMEY have donated staff time to help What motivates your interest in mental We are also fortunate to have an Inspector
make structural changes to the site, while health and our Trust? who now leads for West Midlands Police on
some of our staff have been cultivating the West Midlands Police are key partners mental health issues but specifically Places
neglected area, to make it a welcoming and supporting those with mental health issues of Safety.
therapeutic place for people to be. both within the community and when they
The team are keeping a photo-diary of their enter the criminal justice system. As such What would you like to see our Trust
progress during this long-term project, to help we feel it is vital to play an active role within achieve over the next 12 months?
other groups and organisations in future. the mental health trust both bringing a I still think that as public sector bodies we
different perspective to situations and can work better together to deliver an
learning from other governors how we can enhanced service to those that suffer from
Ramadan health improve our service. We also recognise that
as an organisation that deals with people
mental health problems and I would like to
see how we could improve how we operate
Fasting in the month of Ramadan, who are very often in crisis then the service together. I also believe that there is still a
which starts around August 11, is we have to offer has to be of the highest significant stigma attached to those that
obligatory for all adult Muslims. and safest standards. I also have a are diagnosed with mental ill health
The fast lasts between dawn and sunset, personal interest in this area. issues both in the community and
during which time there must be complete also in many professional
abstinence from food and drink. How have your experiences organisations. If we as a trust
The Guardian newspaper will publish of mental health helped you could break down these
Ramadan timings every day in its weather in your role as a Trust stereotypes I believe that we
section, and a fact sheet can be governor? will have achieved a significant
downloaded from the Muslim Council of My role as a governor is step foreword.
Britain’s website – www.mcb.org.uk. different from many but the
understanding and greater How do you relax in order to
Assembly dates knowledge of those that suffer
with and care for those with
maintain your own wellbeing?
I am a keen athlete who takes part
mental health issues has in ultra running events and triathlons
Our Trust’s assembly of governors meet
allowed me to increase I am currently training for an Iron
quarterly at our Uffculme Centre.
the priority that I have Man event at the end of July.
The next two meetings will be held at the
given this subject On top of this I am in the
centre, in Queensbridge Road, Moseley, on
in my routine final throes of finishing
September 9, between 10.30am and 2pm,
work. For my Masters degree at
and December 9, between 4.30 and 8pm.
example I was Coventry University,
recently so my life is fairly
Caption correction speaking to a
police authority
busy.
In last month’s issue of Trust Talk, a member
photo of Loretta Fuller and Hugh regarding the
Graham was used in its coverage of challenges that
the Long Service Awards.
The caption referred to Hugh as being
Contact details: Carl Foulkes c/o Foundation Trust Office,
Loretta’s husband, this was incorrect, as
B1 – Trust HQ, 50 Summer Hill Road, Ladywood, Birmingham, B1 3RB
the couple are not married. Trust Talk
Email: contact.governors@bsmhft.nhs.uk Tel: 0121 301 1229
apologises for any embarrassment caused
as a result.
11Poetry Corner
WINNER RUNNER UP
How you can enter Empir-ical Evidence Water Colours
As part of Arts All Over The Place next
month, Trust Talk is replacing Poetry Corner Don’t tell me how I feel: Listen. Don’t The waters
with Photography Corner. The theme for Parrot manuals, CBT schemes or Paint a saga
entries is Arts All Over The Place. medic-speak A landscape of painting
From professors who scrambled your brain Of its surroundings
Photos can be colour or black and white, with bleak To mirror image perfection.
must not feature people, and digital images Prognoses of how untreatable I am. Don’t. A million tiny ripples
must be no more than 4MB. The deadline They distort and mix
for entries is Monday, September 6. Don’t box me into an unwanted gift the world The artist’s pallet
Disdains and make of me a ‘thing’, Of water colours
The best entries will receive a £30 voucher news-papered They run like liquid.
and will also be exhibited at the Custard Wrap like the abandoned baby, my future
Factory Gallery from September 27 to tapered A mysticism Frosts over.
October 10. By surrogate-carers, ignorant of my The stars
Heaven-Sources worth. Like shards of glass
Email entries can be sent to Fragments of light
comms.team@bsmhft.nhs.uk or if Don’t imagine we are ‘other’, fodder for gain Like the refraction
submitting hard copies, send them to: or just for ‘charity’ Of a reflection
Photography Corner/AAOTP - so you feel whip-handed and assured Thermometer – low mast
(Communications Dept), FREEPOST Plus As you fast-fang your mountain, its peak Casting a forecast
RRXE GTKC-GRBZ, BSMHFT to hoard, Of coldwater
Headquarters, 50 Summer Hill Road, inwardly coo-billing a delight you believe we A winter born signature.
Birmingham, B1 3RB. do not have.
Catch sight of the breeze
Dianne Aslett, Birmingham. Nature’s story teller
Dates for your diary Oh fantasy dweller.
There passes a twig – forever stifling
SEPTEMBER OCTOBER Through dark shadows cast
10-12 Arts Fest – free arts events in 5 Member seminar: They say the breeze emits no sound
Birmingham city centre all weekend. Performing and creative arts in Which leads me to ask;
Visit www.artsfest.org.uk mental health, at the Custard Factory How can I hear a breeze so solemn
Gallery, Digbeth. 3-5pm* Over Mozart’s requiem?
27 Arts All Over The Place opens at The
Custard Factory, Gibb Street, Digbeth. Lee Surridge, Highgate
21 Member seminar: World Alzheimer’s *Booking required. Email your
Day, at Uffculme Centre, Queensbridge name and contact number to
Road, Moseley. 2-4pm* comms.team@bsmhft.nhs.uk
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features in this issue of Trust Talk.
Can you figure out what they are? battlefield
conference
1 RAPPYTHOGOH film
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