Wathwood Hospital Information for Carers and Families

Wathwood Hospital Information for Carers and Families

Jane DanforthOctober 5, 2021December 21, 2021

Wathwood Hospital Carers Initiative The Beginning - Wathwood Hospital provides medium secure inpatient services for male adult patients. The hospital has 78 beds, 56 of which are located within the...

Carers Families & Friends Uncategorized

Who Cares for the Carers?

Jane DanforthJune 9, 2021June 6, 2021

Nottinghamshire Healthcare was featured as part of Nottingham student, Lydia Till's university dissertation piece in 2020, focusing on the carers of people diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. There are over 700,000...

Carers Families & Friends

City Carer Support Services

Jane DanforthJune 7, 2021June 1, 2021

Mate Caring Visible & Valued

Carers Families & Friends Volunteering

Jinny & Hannah – Carer and Cared for

Jane DanforthOctober 28, 2020October 28, 2020

Prior to lockdown and Covid19, Mum Jinny on the right in the photo and daughter Hannah were busy as volunteers actively involved in face to face Training with our Involvement,...

Carers Families & Friends Volunteering

John & Christopher Lockdown Life & ‘Losing It’

Jane DanforthJuly 27, 2020August 13, 2020

John is an unpaid carer and uses his lived experience as an Involvement Volunteer at Nottinghamshire Healthcare Trust. He looks after his son Christopher. Through January and February 2020 Channel 4 broadcast a...

Carers Families & Friends Forensic Services

Life in Lockdown- Thoughts from a relative of a Rampton Hospital patient

Jane DanforthJune 13, 2020August 13, 2020

Social Visits to Rampton High Secure Hospital remain suspended until further notice. On 13 June, 2020, the first Virtual Carers and Families event took place via MS Teams. New ways to...

Carers Families & Friends Feedback & Experience

Carers’ and families’ feedback matters too.

Amy Gaskin-WilliamsJune 9, 2020August 13, 2020

You've heard us banging the drum about the importance of feedback from service users - it's pretty much #1 on our list of priorities: to ensure that the voice of...

Carers Families & Friends Feedback & Experience

Tablets on our wards to help people share feedback and keep in touch with their families

Amy Gaskin-WilliamsMay 26, 2020August 13, 2020

Last week it was confirmed that we will be purchasing at least one shared tablet for every ward and inpatient site to enable patients to share feedback and to keep...

Carers Families & Friends

The plates are spinning and chipped but not broken yet. Carers Week 2019 postscript

Jane DanforthJune 20, 2019December 30, 2021

Carers Week ended on June 16th 2019. After a week of events and pledges to connect carers to their communities, what now?

Local Partnerships Volunteering

Nottinghamshire Mental Health Awareness Weeks

Laura InghamOctober 10, 2018December 30, 2021

Nottingham Mental Health Awareness Weeks are running 8th October-19th October. There's a lot of varied events on throughout the county during these two weeks, so take a look at their...