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Modernisation of Mental Health Services in Argyll and Bute Newsletter Issue 19 October 2014 Website Updates www.nhshighland. scot.nhs.uk Inside This Issue Suicide Prevention Week Mindfulness Triangle of Care Wellness Recovery Plan Mindfulness Learning Collaborative Following on from successful facilitator training in Mindfulness, provided by Dr Alistair Wilson, a number of NHS staff in the Oban & Lorn areas formed a group to continue with personal practice and ongoing professional development called MiLC (Mindfulness Learning Collaborative). The remote and rural nature of where the staff were based combined with varied remits and roles has led to challenges in establishing a regular and sizeable cohort for this ongoing work and a new approach was trialled to open up opportunities for staff to be part of a local Mindfulness community. Dates have been agreed for monthly open sessions to be held in a community venue and the emphasis of the sessions are on increasing personal awareness and self-care/support within the traditions and techniques of Mindfulness. Meeting as an open group acknowledges that everyone can experience difficulty in their lives and it also helps that the practices are peer led. All that participants are asked to contribute is a small donation to cover the minimal venue costs. For more information or to register an interest, please e-mail [email protected] Suicide Prevention Week The 8th of September 2014 saw the start of Suicide Prevention Week at Argyll and Bute Hospital in Lochgilphead. The key theme was ‘distress and stress’ and support was provided in partnership with the Healthy Working Lives initiative. Two events were held in the hospital with the focus on people looking after themselves and using exercise to support health and wellbeing. Over 40 staff and service users attended the events and shared and experienced alternative methods to deal with distress such as exercise, mindfulness and massage. Mental Health Physiotherapist, Sara Heath, said that physical exercise and activity is good for both mind and body and evidence showed that being physically active promotes mental wellbeing and reduces/wards off stress. It also lifts your mood, improves motivation/ self esteem and aids relaxation. Fiona Broderick, co-chair of Healthy Working Lives, said that the initiative helps employers such as NHS Highland support a safer, healthier and more motivated workforce. She added that the turnout at the events was great and showed the commitment of staff to raising awareness of mental health issues and they hoped to build on its success by continuing to focus and support health and wellbeing throughout other initiatives in the future. If you would like to receive this newsletter directly by post, email or in an alternative format/language, please contact: Caroline Cecil Planning & Public Involvement Manager ℡ 01546 605681 or email the Project Team at [email protected] Project Director: John Dreghorn
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Modernisation of Mental Health Services in Argyll and Bute
Newsletter
Issue 19
October 2014
Website Updates
www.nhshighland.
scot.nhs.uk
Inside This Issue
Suicide Prevention Week
Mindfulness
Triangle of Care
Wellness Recovery Plan
Mindfulness Learning Collaborative
Following on from successful facilitator training in Mindfulness, provided by Dr Alistair Wilson, a number of NHS staff in the Oban & Lorn areas formed a group to continue with personal practice and ongoing professional development called MiLC (Mindfulness Learning Collaborative).
The remote and rural nature of where the staff were based combined with varied remits and roles has led to challenges in establishing a regular and sizeable cohort for this ongoing work and a new approach was trialled to open up opportunities for staff to be part of a local Mindfulness community.
Dates have been agreed for monthly open sessions to be held in a community venue and the emphasis of the sessions are on increasing personal awareness and self-care/support within the traditions and techniques of Mindfulness. Meeting as an open group acknowledges that everyone can experience difficulty in their lives and it also helps that the practices are peer led.
All that participants are asked to contribute is a small donation to cover the minimal venue costs. For more information or to register an interest, please e-mail [email protected]
Suicide Prevention Week
The 8th of September 2014 saw the start of Suicide Prevention Week at Argyll and Bute Hospital in Lochgilphead. The key theme was ‘distress and stress’ and support was provided in partnership with the Healthy Working Lives initiative.
Two events were held in the hospital with the focus on people looking after themselves and using exercise to support health and wellbeing. Over 40 staff and service users attended the events and shared and experienced alternative methods to deal with distress such as exercise, mindfulness and massage.
Mental Health Physiotherapist, Sara Heath, said that physical exercise and activity is good for both mind and body and evidence showed that being physically active promotes mental wellbeing and reduces/wards off stress. It also lifts your mood, improves motivation/self esteem and aids relaxation.
Fiona Broderick, co-chair of Healthy Working Lives, said that the initiative helps employers such as NHS Highland support a safer, healthier and more motivated workforce. She added that the turnout at the events was great and showed the commitment of staff to raising awareness of mental health issues and they hoped to build on its success by continuing to focus and support health and wellbeing throughout other initiatives in the future.
If you would like to receive this newsletter directly by post, email or in an alternative format/language,
please contact:
Caroline Cecil Planning & Public
Involvement Manager ℡ 01546 605681
or email the Project Team at [email protected]
Project Director: John Dreghorn
Launch of Triangle of Care Project
The national launch of the Triangle of Care Project recently took place in Lochgilphead. The day was opened by Beth Hamilton, Mental Health Advisor from the Scottish Government, and brought together service users, carers & NHS/local authority staff. The aim was to inform partners about using the Triangle of Care to develop carer involvement and promote recovery.
Karen Martin, Mental Health Development Co-ordinator for Carers Trust Scotland, said that the Triangle of Care assists staff in looking at how they are identifying and supporting carers. It also gives them the tools to better support carers as part of the care team and to work in partnership with organisations supporting carers.
Gillian Davies, Practice Education Facilitator for NHS Highland, explained that it was an exciting opportunity for the NHS to work in partnership with key agencies to support the development of using the Triangle of Care and also enhance engagement with carers. For further information or to register an interest in the project contact Gillian Davies, email: [email protected] or Karen Martin, email: [email protected]
The development of this model of working is being taken forward locally in partnership with the carer’s centres, ACUMEN and NHS Highland. David Wright, Development Manager for ACUMEN, said that anyone who cares for someone with a mental health problem should find out about the Triangle of Care as it was a best practice guide that is being introduced throughout Scotland with Argyll and Bute at the forefront as a pilot site. David added that if carers would like to contribute to the project or find out more about it then they can contact ACUMEN on 0141 887 9103 or email [email protected].
Wellness Recovery Action Planning
Wellness Recovery Action Planning (WRAP) helps you take control over your own mental health recovery and wellness as it recognises that you are the expert in your own experience and there are no limits to recovery. WRAP workshops are also held and these are not classes but groups where everyone has an equal voice and people can talk about recovery and not illness and the facilitators share their experiences of using their own WRAP plans.
A two day WRAP workshop recently took place in Oban facilitated by David O’Brien (Community Mental Health Service) and Tina Jordan (ACUMEN). Six participants attended and all of them completed the course and certificates were presented at the end. Due to its success plans are already underway to run another one in Oban in the near future.
The Oban group requested a follow-up meeting to find out how people were getting on with their WRAP plans and this was held six weeks after the initial course and it proved really valuable in helping explore some of the problems that people had encountered.
It is also hoped that, in collaboration with the Scottish Recovery Network, WRAP facilitator training will be available in Argyll and Bute in late spring 2015. Applicants interested in becoming a facilitator will be encouraged to register their interest during their own WRAP workshop and thereafter recruitment and selection to attend WRAP facilitator training will be managed through the Scottish Recovery Network.
Anyone interested in attending WRAP workshops should contact Gillian Davies (Practice Education Facilitator) by email at [email protected] or they can call ACUMEN on 0141 887 9103.
It is also anticipated that WRAP workshops will be held in Campbeltown, Islay and Lochgilphead over the next six months.
