TalkWell is a conversation training resource for mental health workers. It’s a lively and practical way to help your staff to: become better listeners enjoy and feel able to manage conversations about anything from Coronation Street to coping with compulsions have a greater awareness of what’s happening in patients’ minds and their own […]
full storyBy Nic Higham, Inpatient Care Consultant @ Star Wards A few days back, I attended a staff training session at the mental health Trust I often do bank shifts at. In the dinner break I noticed a poem pinned up on a notice board. It really impacted me. I asked one of the trainers […]
full storyThe Care Quality Commission’s work, values, approach and impact are obviously very important to wards. Their reputation took a real hammering over the shocking treatment at Winterbourne View but the feeling we’re picking up from the sector, and strongly sensing ourselves, is that recent changes of senior personnel and their awesome new mental […]
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