Category Archives: mental health
Hospital visitors told to consider speaking to relatives via Skype
The families of patients at an NHS trust have been urged to consider speaking to them via the internet rather than making bedside visits.
11:25AM BST 22 Jul 2011
The scheme, being proposed by Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, is intended to save money among relatives who receive travel expenses.
Mental health patients in Berkshire are due to be relocated from Ascot, Maidenhead and Slough to Reading.
Norfolk’s new dementia unit to be opened 26th July 2011
Norfolk’s new dementia unit ready for topping–out
Edited by Andy Porter editor@wellbeingnorfolk.co.uk
The principle building work on Norfolk’s new Dementia Intensive Care Unit [DICU] is nearing completion and ready for the topping–out ceremony on 26 July 2011.
The event will be held on the Julian Hospital site in Norwich, home to the £13.7 million development. The 36–bedded DICU is part of Norfolk and Waveney Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, representatives of which will attend the topping–out together with building contractors R G Carter and architects Ingleton Wood.
The unit is part of the mental health Trust’s aims to provide the best dementia care in the country by creating a Clinical Academy for Dementia.
County Council support to help most vulnerable
30 June 2011
Edited by Andy Porter editor@wellbeingnorfolk.co.uk
More people in Norfolk are set to benefit from a project that sees the health of vulnerable people benefit from a structured program of farming–related activities on a ‘care farm’.
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