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Joining Star Wards Print E-mail

How to join

It’s very exciting that mental health wards across the spectrum from acute admission through specialist services to secure units are enthusiastic members. If yours is an NHS ward, all you need to do for your ward to join is to click on the link below, fill in the form and email it to: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it


Star Wards' joining form

Membership is free for all NHS wards, thanks to generous support from charitable trusts and the Department of Health. We’ve recently introduced a £500 a year membership fee for private sector wards (including those with mainly or solely NHS funded patients) to enable us to develop new resources. Discounts are available for hospitals with more than 3 wards! So if yours is a private ward, please fill in and email the form (via links above) and we'll send you an invoice.

 


We look forward to welcoming you to the dynamic, generous Star Wards’ community!

Thanks!!

love marion xx

“From around the UK, there is now plenty of evidence that services who have adopted the Star Wards initiative have significantly made a difference to the service users’ experience and influenced their vitality, well being and steps to recovery. There have also been extraordinary changes in the morale and job satisfaction of acute care staff, who have seized the opportunity to be open minded, creative and innovative.”

Malcolm Rae, joint national lead for acute care

Wards find that Star Wards:

  • is a really helpful framework for recognising, celebrating and structuring their existing good practice
  • is energising and enjoyable. “It’s about doing things differently, not about doing more things.” Having said that (or having quoted the person that said that), wards invariably find that staff want to introduce new activities and practices which enhance patient experiences and relationships.
  • helps them convince management to give them more money for patient activities
  • is a great way of strengthening relationships between staff, patients, carers, and between nursing and other staff
  • connects them up with wards around the country (and overseas – we even have members in New Zealand!) to share experiences, triumphs, frustrations, solutions….
  • Provides motivation and validation through (non-competitive!) awards’ schemes for staff and ward
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Joining Star Wards - FAQs Print E-mail

What difference have members found that Star Wards has made?

Here’s what members have said:

The impact on the wards ranges from reduction in incidents and use of PRN medication to service users leading groups and activities

Created tidal wave effect amongst staff and patients to develop ideas further.

Better client feedback, increased staff satisfaction, less aggression and violence, more therapeutic contact

No management instructions!!!!

What do we need to do to join?
Just email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

What does it cost?

Nothing! Star Wards is funded by charitable trusts and the National Mental Health Development Unit. (Phew! We are incredibly appreciative of their support.)

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New Members' Quick Start Guide Print E-mail

Wards find that Star Wards:

  • is an ideal framework for recognising, celebrating and structuring their existing good practice
  • is energising and enjoyable. “It’s about doing things differently, not about doing more things.” Having said that (or having quoted the person that said that), wards invariably find that staff want to introduce new activities and practices which enhance patient experiences and relationships.
  • helps them convince management to give them more money for patient activities
  • is a great way of strengthening relationships between staff, patients, carers, and between nursing and other staff
  • connects them up with wards around the country (and overseas – we even have members in New Zealand!) to share experiences, triumphs, frustrations, solutions….
  • Provides motivation and validation through (non-competitive!) awards’ schemes for staff and wards
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The Full Monty Award Print E-mail

Full Monty AwardWhich award brings you fame, riches, glamour and cinematic immortality? Well, the Oscars actually, but failing that, why not try for the fabulous Star Wards Full Monty Award?

Given to wards who have implemented all 75 Star wards ideas, the Full Monty award recognises outstanding effort and achievement among Star Wards Members.

Although it’s incredibly challenging to implement all 75 ideas, firstly you don’t actually have to! Some of our 75 ideas are, frankly, unviable – notably number 75 about patients extending their stays by a day or two! All the others are just ideas and wards adapt them to meet their own needs, skills and quirks.

Nevertheless, Cheshire and Wirral Partnership completely blew our minds when they managed to achieve the Full Monty in every single one of their 18 wards across 4 hospitals across a huge geographical region! It’s a (tiny) bit like that song about New York being so wonderful they named it twice. Not that it’s now Cheshire and Wirral and Cheshire and Wirral Partnership, but we had to create a new award for having got Full Monty status in all their wards. CWP are now the first winners of the Absolute Monty Award. Mazel tov (congratulations in Hebrew, Buddy’s second language) to CWP!

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