Tag Archives: mental health
Hospital Staff and pupils sing carols for carers and service users
Singsong for service users and carer
Staff from the Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH) older people’s services teamed up with pupils from local school, Burton-upon-Stather Primary, near Scunthorpe to entertain service users and carers with a sing-along, mince pies and coffee.
How family carers dread the Christmas and New Year holidays
A few thoughts written by carers and a former carer
When you are carer of someone who can do nothing for themselves and can’t communicate the normal feeling of isolation becomes more acute at Christmas.
Care workers who normally come in to help are on holiday, as mostly, we can’t afford the double time for them to work.
Parents who are carers should be included in a ‘Care Plan’
Mental health trust reforms legacy of artist’s suicide
8:00am Saturday 3rd December 2011 in News
A promising artist’s suicide has sparked a host of recommendations at a mental health trust nearly a year after his death.
Talented Philip Weeks was known by his friends and family as a loving, caring and charming young man who was always smiling.
He was diagnosed with rapid-cycling bipolar disorder in May 2010 and experienced severe mood swings and suicidal tendencies before he suffocated himself on December 7.
