Is this the ultimate Star Wards’ tabloidesque headline? Comes from great blog from a USA west coast Clearview Women’s Residential Treatment Center for women with emotional dysregulation, including BPD. I’m sure my local NHS trust would be happy to pay a rather large amount of money for me to stay there for a few weeks to […]

Here’s our first ever blog partly in Welsh! well, indirectly, via the press release about the fabulous Ablett Unit in Rhyl, which will feature in our next newsletter.   This will challenge my spellchecker!   Uned Ablett yn ennill Gwobr ‘Star Wards’ am ofal cleifion rhagorol Ar 2 Mehefin 2010, cyflwynwyd gwobr ‘Star Wards’ i Uned […]

A quick mention of diverting mentally ill offenders from the criminal justice system but mainly the world’s best recipe.

Embedding recovery principles into secure services: Progress and challengesThursday 8 July 2010 8.30am to 4.30pm Easthampstead Park Conference Centre, Wokingham, Berkshire The challenge for everyone using and providing secure mental health services is to find effective and meaningful ways of embedding recovery into care pathways. The second bi-annual Recovery in Secure Services Conference, hosted by […]

Great advice for patients, professionals, pets….A report presented to the Foresight Project on communicating the evidence base for improving people’s well-being suggests that building the following five actions into our day-to-day lives is important for well-being: Connect With the people around you. With family, friends, colleagues and neighbours. At home, work, school or in your […]

Such a brilliant series of daily cartoons! We’re deeply grateful to Ralph Lazar and Lisa Swerling for letting us include their fab cartoons on our home page. They really add homeliness to pageyness! And we hope that having a new cartoon each day contributes to you wanting to visit the website regularly.Here are some of my favourite recent […]

99.999999999999999999% of you don’t ‘follow us’ on Twitter, perhaps because you don’t like terms like follow, tweet or retweet, let alone geotagging or hovercard. (But many thanks to the one of you who is tuning into http://twitter.com/starwards)! So that no-one misses out on the occasional posting that might be of interest, and with the joy […]

For all of you tantalised by the account in our latest newsletter of the energetic and imaginative TalkWell developments in Birmingham and Solihull, here’s the latest from Patrick. I apologise for the poverty of my IT skills which don’t extend to including the wonderful photo of the event and fab graphics on the information Patrick […]

If one wanted to create a TV programme that fostered terror about how dangerous mentally ill people are, helpful ingredients would be for a film to: Be authored by someone bereaved by homicide committed by someone with a mental illness be loaded with details of the tragedies which build up into the most horrific visual […]

What looks like a hotel, sounds like a health spa and has groovy facilities including a cinema? The super-snazzy new hospital in Grimsby, Harrison House. Ellie Walsh, East Service Manager of Meridian Lodge (Lodge?? How cool a name is that?!), was the ward manager of the hospital’s predecessor at Diana Princess of Wales Hospital. I […]