I was delighted to receive the 2008 Mental Heath Nursing Award. You can read about it either on the South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust website or in the Nursing Standard (Volume 22 Number 2008 page 67)
I'm pictured here (left to right) with former health minister Edwina Currie, Jane Sayer from SLAM and James from WYETH.
The award for this years memorial lecture and life time achievement were announced at the NPNR in Oxford. Get all the details: http://www.winship.info/skellern
Left - Right:
Professor David Sines, Paul Forte (Eileen Skellern's nephew), Cath Gamble, Jo Brand (Lifetime Achievement Award), Dr Joy Bray, Professor Dawn Freshwater, Dr Julie Repper, Dr Gary Winship.
My sister, Sarah and brother Edward helping me celebrate receiving the award.
The award winning Meriden Family Work Programme promotes the development of family-sensitive, evidence-based mental health services, with a particular emphasis on the implementation of family work. It is an NHS programme with extensive experience of working with organisations to ensure families are at the heart of quality mental health service delivery.
Celebrating with collegues in Birmingham Colin Campbell, David Soley, Judi Jeavons, Colin Merker, The Mayor, The Lady Mayoress and Grainne Fadden
The festival of Psychiatric Nursing in Malta provided a wonderful opportunity for myself and Jacqeline Sin (pictured), from Berkshire to present our work on developing family inclusive Early Intervention Services. Here is our abstract and audio of our session Download Gamble and Sin Horatio 2008
The new millennium has seen a world-wide initiative to develop Early Interventions in Psychosis Services (EIPS) underpinned by various evidence-based interventions. Family interventions (FI) for psychosis is one of these major interventions within EIPS and have a well established evidence base. However, clinicians need to be mindful of the need for modification when working alongside families with individuals newly diagnosed with first episode psychosis (FEP).
A recent literature review on family interventions in FEP has highlighted the paucity of phase-specific research into FI for families with a young adult with FEP and questioned the appropriateness of certain FI models (Askey, Gamble & Gray, 2007). The needs of families in early episodes of psychosis can fluctuate a great deal (Slade et al, 2003). Despite a well-established family interventions for psychosis service in Berkshire, England, local experience suggests that up-take rate of FI by families within EIPS is only within the range of 47-32% (Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, unpublished clinical audit 2005 & 2006). Services need to be developed to incorporate evidence based interventions as well as to address the needs of the families and carers (Sin, Moone and Newell, 2007). The presentation highlighted:
22nd May 2008
Accompanied by RCN general secretary Dr Peter Carter, all winners and runners up went to 10 Downing Street. Here we had the opportunity to meet Gordon and Sarah Brown, Alan Johnson and Ann Keen. The meeting provided the opportunity to celebrate further, meet other award winners and share some of our experiences with the ministers. Gordon Brown could not have made us feel more welcome.
I have reviewed this book for Mental Health Practice - the journal for mental health nurses and others involved in the mental health field. See May 2008/Vol 11/No 8/p22
