Great steps forward in Freedom to Speak Up
At the Board meeting today we heard of the great steps forward in the work around Freedom to Speak Up and the progress in this area.
At the Board meeting today we heard of the great steps forward in the work around Freedom to Speak Up and the progress in this area.
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is investing £1.46M in five citizen science research projects where the public are directly involved in the research process, with its largest investment being given to the Citizen Science To Achieve Coproduction at Scale (C-STACS) study, led by Mike Slade at the Institute of Mental Health (a research partnership between the University of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust).
We are delighted that Sarah Atkinson, one of our Learning Disabilities Primary Care Liaison Nurses, has been shortlisted as a finalist in the Healthcare Heroes category at the NottinghamshireLive Heroes Awards.
Congratulations to Dr Rebecca O’Brien, Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist, working in our Adult speech and language therapy service who has won an Institute of Mental Health Publication Award. The award is for her publication ‘When people living with dementia say ‘no’: Negotiating refusal in the acute hospital setting, in the best publication flowing from work during doctoral studies or as part of a doctoral dissertation category.
Lucy Rollinson, community learning disabilities nurse and Francheska Dale, Trainee Nursing Associate, from the IDD South Community Learning Disabilities Team have been nominated by a patient who they continue to support and who said Lucy and Frankie are local heroes
Losing It: Our Mental Health Emergency, the Channel 4 documentary that shone a light on some of our services and brilliant staff, has been nominated for a BAFTA Award.
We have been recognised by the NHS Confederation and by NHS Employers for our improvements in our national staff survey results.
Congratulations to our Liaison and Diversion Team were recently presented with a High Sherriff Award.
Two of Nottinghamshire Healthcare’s clinical psychologists have won National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Development and Skills Enhancement (DSE) awards.