Posted by Devon Partnership Trust in #ProudofDPT, Mental health, News on 19th July, 2019
Congratulations to Beech Ward who have been accredited under the Royal College of Psychiatrists QNOAMHS scheme. QNOAMHS - The Quality Network for Older Adults Mental Health Services - works with wards who are providing services to older people and engages staff and people who use services in a comprehensive process of...
Posted by Devon Partnership Trust in #ProudofDPT, News on 17th July, 2019
Dr Jo Cheffey, our Strategic Lead for Older Adult Psychology across Devon Partnership Trust, recently won the Bill Downes award at this year’s Faculty for Psychology of Older People (FPOP) national conference. The Bill Downes award recognises the contribution of a mid-career clinical psychologist to work with older people. Congratulations...
Posted by Devon Partnership Trust in #ProudofDPT, News on 17th July, 2019
Will Berisch Secretan, a drama-therapist and environmental arts therapist working for the Psychology & Psychological Therapies (PPT) service in south Devon, has received an award from the British Association of Dramatherapists (BADth) for Innovative Practice in Dramatherapy. Will is the 2019 recipient of the 'The Bruce Howard Bayley Award for Dramatherapy...
Posted by Devon Partnership Trust in #ProudofDPT, Learning disability, Mental health, News on 12th July, 2019
Teams from across the Trust were successful at the inaugural National Positive Practice in OPMH and Dementia Awards in Bristol last night. The awards were organised and sponsored by the Positive Practice in Mental Health Collaborative and we co-hosted the event. We were nominated in six out of twelve categories and walked...
Posted by Devon Partnership Trust in #ProudofDPT, Mental health, News on 9th July, 2019
We are delighted to announce that we are in the running for an award in an amazing six of the 12 categories in the inaugural National Older People's Mental Health and Dementia Awards 2019 which are organised and sponsored by the Positive Practice in Mental Health Collaborative. Our Bristol Dementia Wellbeing...