Posted by Devon Partnership Trust in Mental health, News, Nursing, Recovery and wellbeing on 17th July, 2020
Year of the Nurse - Nick's story 2020 is the 'Year of the Nurse and Midwife'. We are continuing to celebrate our nurses and the great work they do by sharing their varied journeys into the nursing profession. The next in our series is a story by Nick, an Assistant Practitioner on Rougemont...
Posted by Devon Partnership Trust in News on 16th July, 2020
Andrew Butler, from the North and Mid Devon STEP team begins his English Channel swim this evening at around 7pm. He will be swimming into the sunset, throughout the night into sunrise and throughout Friday. Witnessing his son and daughter-in-law's journey, following the birth of their daughter who was born with...
Posted by Devon Partnership Trust in News, Research on 15th July, 2020
The Research and Development team have made an enormous contribution to the largest interventional mental health trial ever conducted in the UK. The HOME Study looked at whether introducing a new approach called Proactive Liaison Psychiatry (PLP) to the identification and management of psychological problems for older people in acute general...
Posted by Devon Partnership Trust in Charity, News, Recovery and wellbeing on 9th July, 2020
The New Leaf team wanted to show their thanks and appreciation for the huge efforts that the Bovey multidisciplinary team (MDT) have made to care for critically ill patients with the virus. On Friday 3 July 2020, the New Leaf team delivered 46 gift bags, made up of New Leaf...
Posted by Devon Partnership Trust in Mental health, News, Recovery and wellbeing on 9th July, 2020
Music can have a real effect on our emotions and depending on the piece of music, can take us back to a memory, make us elated or suppress our mood. X-System has “developed technology which accurately and reliably categorises music by its physical effect on the autonomic nervous system.” Simply put,...