April 7th 2008 Stonefield House, St George’s Hospital, Stafford Welcome to the Star Wards’ newsletter and a warm welcome to the new members of the Star Wards’ community including 10 wards from the Royal Edinburgh Hospital, 17 wards from East Kent, and one particular ward at St Ann’s hospital, north London. Lordship Ward was […]

  March 4th 2008 Norbury Ward, St George’s Hospital, Stafford Welcome to the Star Wards’ newsletter and a warm welcome to the new members of the Star Wards’ community, including all 11 wards which have just joined from St Nicholas Hospital, Newcastle. Further south, this newsletter continues the accounts of a series of visits I’ve […]

  Feb 18th 2008 Margaret Stanhope Centre, Burton-on-Trent Welcome to the Star Wards’ newsletter and a warm welcome to the new members of the Star Wards’ community. I hope the Margaret Stanhope Centre have recovered from my visit which included a display of snooker (or was it pool?) with a very patient patient who pretended […]

  Feb 5th 2008 Guildhall, London Picture the scene: a Thursday evening in London, a posh limo, a red carpet with waiting paparazzi, a champagne reception, a room full of very famous people, and me in a dinner jacket. No, it’s not the Star Wards Christmas Staff party, it’s the Morgan Stanley Great Britons Awards. […]

  Jan 4th 2008Happy new year, welcome to the first newsletter of 2008 and a warm welcome to the new members of the Star Wards’ community. 2007 was Star Wards’ first full year, so we thought you might like a Behind the Scenes peek at the operation responsible.     1. Who Chief Operating Officer, […]

  Star Wards Action Network Welcome to the latest issue of SWAN. Following on from edition #4’s theme of medication, I’m very grateful to Darren O’Brien from the excellent charity Network for Change for sending me exactly what I’d previously been unable to locate – a paper outlining the specific issues of medication for people […]

  Welcome to the latest issue of SWAN – Star Wards Action Network, and happy new year. This fortnight it’s focusing on the role of sports therapists, thanks to information from our latest member, Alan Metherall of Wotton Lawn Hospital in Gloucester. The hospital provides a 7 day programme of activities for patients, has its […]

  Dec 23rd 2007 Welcome to the latest newsletter and a warm welcome to the new members of the Star Wards’ community. This seasonally sparkling edition is possible thanks to the extraordinary imagination and patient-involving skills of the staff at Highcroft Hospital, Birmingham. I’m very grateful to Patrick Cullen, Inpatients’ Service Manager (and lead nurse […]

  Dec 7th 2007 Welcome to the latest newsletter and a warm welcome to the new members of the Star Wards’ community. Last week I was invited not just to see but to take part in a group at one of my local hospitals, Highgate Mental Health Centre. On all my visits to hospitals, I’ve […]

Nov 25th 2007 Welcome to the latest newsletter and a warm welcome to the new members of the Star Wards’ community, including our first Scottish member – Carolyn Stewart at the Carseview Centre, Dundee. We’ve also had our first membership enquiry from America… and from a London medical (i.e. non-psychiatric) hospital. All very exciting! This […]