Acute Care Network Meetings  in the West Midlands

Between October 2008 and September 2009 there were three one day Region-wide workshops that addressed common themes identifed through the Healthcare Commission review of inpatient wards, they were:

• Sexual Safety and Women issues in Acute Mental Health Care(webpage and resources)
• Substance Misuse issues (webpage and resources)
• Diversity Issues (webpage and resources)

The objectives of these seminars included:

• Raising awareness of the key issues relating to Acute Care and availability of current guidance, intelligence, examples of good practice and information sharing. 
• Provide examples of operational documents in addition to national and local guidance resources.

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Previous Network Meetings

22 September 2008 Network Meeting Presentations:

• West Midlands Update following the Healthcare Commission Review of Acute Inpatients wards - Nick Adams
• Safety on Acute Wards - Malcolm Rae
• Care of Clients with Dual Diagnosis - Nicola Clarke
• Copy of the CSIP WM Acute Development Plan
• Copy of HCC National report on acute in-patient review

15 October 2007 Presentations:

• Star Wards in Sandwell
• Promoting Positive Mental Health
• The Other Eden Project
• Handover Audit Tool Update
• Workload Calculator Update

Mental Capacity Documents

• MCA code of Practice
• MCA Implementation Plan
• MCA Easy Read
  
• MCA Summary
• The Bournewood Gap
• IMCA Pilot Report
  

Jeremy Patton (BSMHT) has kindly allowed us to use his explanotary flowchart which visually explains the process involved when using the Mental Capacity Act.

• Flowchart with comments
• Flowchart without comments

20 March 2007 Documents and Links:

• Presentation notes
• Star Wards
• Standards
• Clinical Meetings
• Work programme 2007 - 08
• Gender Equality and Women's Mental Health - Alison Longwill
• Delivering Race Equality - Ranjit Senghera