Welcome to the Acute Care Programme website.

The new site has resources to keep you in touch with news, events, current policy, standards and best practice in Acute Care. Scroll to the bottom of the page to watch the video Listening to Carers and check the calendar for events. If you'd like to share your ideas, innovative practice, and good news stories, go to the Virtual Ward section in Our Work where you can upload your ideas and comments. 

 

NATIONAL ACUTE CARE NETWORK

To help us disseminate and share developments and best practice in Acute Care, The National Mental Health Development Unit is setting up a National Acute Care Network. If you have leadership responsibilities or you're a carer or service user and want to influence and promote positive practice, we would like to invite you to become part of the National Acute Care Network. Download a form for more information and to join.

NEWSLETTER No.1

This first Acute care programme newsletter is written by Paul Rooney, National Acute Care Programme Joint Strategic Lead NMHDU, and focuses on the Acute Care Declaration. Download the Newsletter here.  The Newsletters section has newsletters from other regions and mental health organisations. 

STAR WARDS OBE

A message from Marion Janner, director of BRIGHT and creator of Star Wards.  The superb work being done by staff on mental health wards has been recognised with an OBE! Huge congratulations to all of you doing such heroic work, with such commitment and creativity and in seriously challenging circumstances. To find out more about Star Wards go to the Star Wards Website

COMING SOON - We'll be featuring an interview with Marion and a Video Podcast of the fantastic work being done in Cheshire and Wirall where the staff have inplemented all 75 of Star Wards initiatives on all 18 of their inpatient wards.

 

New Horizons: A shared vision for Mental Health was launched in December 2009. Due to an error on page 63 of the original publication, an amended version was issued in February 2010. Click here to download the complete amended document.  You can also download the other two documents published as part of this new initiative: Work Recovery and Inclusion and the mental health and employment strategy: Working our way to Better Mental Health: a framework for action. Visit the New Horizons website to read more.  

NEW: Read the Guardian Society experts` debate on turning New Horizons policy into effective practice.

 

 

About Us

The National Mental Health Development Unit www.nmhdu.org.uk, is the agency charged with supporting the implementation of mental health policy in England by the Department of Health. Launched in April 2009, it consists of a small team and a range of programmes, including the Acute Care Programme. This team takes over some of the work previously carried out by the National Institute for Mental Health in England (NIMHE).

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This video features Stephen Tompkinson visiting Langley Green Hospital. Stephen delivers an anti stigma message and praises the work of the acute care staff who help patients on the road to recovery.

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These are pictures of the award winning building at Langley Green Hospital, Sussex Partnership Trust in Crawley. The latest video podcast featuring Stephen Tompkinson was filmed here. Many thanks to the staff and service users at Langley Green for all their help in making the video.

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