| I hope your summer was delightful despite rain, cuts, riots plus the zillion daily challenges of inpatient care. My summer culminated in an unexpected but voluntary and highly therapeutic return to being an inpatient at St Ann’s.
And there’s also a little ‘movie’ I flung together using photos I took while in hospital. For obvious reasons of confidentiality, no people feature in it and this possible makes it rather more melancholy than I was intending! But you may find it useful, even for staff training or, more radically, as part of recruitment selection. For example, you could show applicants the film and ask them to reflect on what a particular image might mean for patients, visitors or staff. Here’s the link to youtube: and here The theme of this newsletter is Cheap as Chips. Inspired by so many, many great ideas from wards, we’ve compiled a bunch of no-cost or low-cost suggestions. Two more I’ve come across since then – reminiscence boxes from local museums (thanks to The Retreat in York for that one) and pampering products for the guys eg footspas and Vibrohug – vibrating neck massager scarf/wrap (thanks to Leicester for those.) We hope you enjoy the newsletter and, as ever, would LOVE to hear your ideas and examples. Love marion and Buddy
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