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Cedar House Education and Therapy Department
From the point of admission, we are focused on the skills an individual needs to develop and how to assist them in preparing for discharge or the next stage of their journey. In order to achieve these goals the Education and Therapy department employ a qualified teacher, along with...
Fishing as therapy?
The Cedar House Fishing Group has been running for over five years and, as it turns out, it’s a bit of a family affair. Paul Wilmshurst took it over from his brother who, along with their mum, all work for Huntercombe. Paul is clearly a passionate fisherman but...
Transforming Care in Practice: Eldertree Lodge
Magnifying these challenges, and the need for radically revised care strategies in the sector, were the significant reductions of in-patient capacity mandated by Building the right support, the NHS commissioning plan published in October 2015[1]. This document outlined a national service model to ensure that Transforming Care delivered...
Next stage of development for Brain in Hand at Cedar House
Brain in Hand (www.braininhand.co.uk) is currently being used to help patients better self-manage in order to reduce anxiety and crisis incidents, especially when in the local community. Brain in Hand gives patients easy access to their own personalised diary, reminders, and coping strategies through an app on their...
All we want for Christmas… is a visit by a family of reindeer!
When we first started looking into the idea we didn’t even know if it was possible but funnily enough, there’s a company that are local to us that hires out reindeer for exactly our purpose. However, it’s not particularly cheap so we decided to raise funds for it...
Eldertree Lodge – a case study on Positive Behaviour Support
Meet J J’s a 55 year old woman with mild intellectual disability and emotionally unstable personality disorder who’s detained under the Mental Health Act (MHA 1983). Before she moved to Eldertree, she’d been a resident in a mental health hospital. This was after a breakdown of numerous community...
Cedar House Summer Fete
The original idea for a summer fete came from a patient (as many of our best ideas do!). Frustrated that they were unable to get out and about to any of the local summer fetes, we decided to bring the fete to them! And the rest, as they...
Understanding the difference between mental health issues and learning disabilities
Yet understanding exactly what the issue is marks the first step towards personalised treatment strategies that recognise the enormous complexity of mental illness and the uniqueness of every patient. The same goes for learning disabilities, an area that shares certain characteristics, such as, channels for diagnosis and management,...
Jill Dawson wins PBS BILD Coach of the Year
Congratulations to Jill Dawson, Lead Speech and Language Therapist at the Huntercombe Group, who received the award for PBS (Positive Behaviour Support) Coach of the Year at the 2018 BILD PBS Leadership Awards which took place during their International Conference in May 2018. To read more about Positive...
Join us on 16th June for an information day on Alzheimer’s
The day features three free interactive information sessions where our visitors can learn all about how dementia affects a person and what you can do to make a difference. With an estimated 850,000 people in the UK living with dementia and 24.6 million – 38% of the UK...
Moorpark Place celebrates Mental Health Awareness Week
Moorpark Place staff raised awareness of stress for Mental Health Awareness Week 2018, by carrying out a CPD session for staff. The session focussed on the need for being aware of stress and coping strategies for managing time, and organisation which when mismanaged can create a feeling of...
Managing challenging behaviour with Positive Behaviour Support
When thinking about the causes of challenging behaviours, it is important to consider the environment and wider context in which the behaviour occurs as well as the person’s own internal factors such as physical and emotional well-being, mental health and cognitive abilities. As often as not, they are...
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy: Building a Life Worth Living
In fact, these efforts may prove counterproductive if people feel invalidated by too strong an emphasis on the need to change. They have to come to terms with their problematic behaviour, and know it is understood and accepted as a means of coping with challenging circumstances, before they...
Half of Murdostoun patients return home to live independently (April 2018)
For the full report: Outcomes Murdostoun
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) now helping young people at Huntercombe Edinburgh
DBT is a structured therapy that includes a focus on a person’s thoughts, emotions, beliefs and behaviours. At Huntercombe Hospital Edinburgh individual therapy sessions take place alongside a skills training group supported by access to DBT coaches between sessions if needed. Leading our DBT programme we have a...
Days out for Young People at Huntercombe Hospital Stafford
Thursday 14th December saw a group of young people from Thorneycroft and Wedgwood take a trip into a decommissioned nuclear bunker nestled in the sleepy Cheshire countryside. The bunker was built in the 1950s and would have acted as a centre of regional government if ever a nuclear...
‘Brain in Hand’ at Cedar House
The Huntercombe Group strives to continually seek innovative solutions to improve care and are currently piloting a new software called Brain in Hand at Cedar House in Canterbury. Brain in Hand (www.braininhand.co.uk) is being used to help patients better self-manage in order to reduce anxiety and crisis incidents,...
Learning Disabilities Work Week
By Lucy Berrisford – Occupational Therapist, Eldertree Lodge Learning Disabilities Work Week is from 6th to 12th November 2017, when Mencap is celebrating what great employees people with a learning disability can make www.mencap.org.uk/get-involved/learning-disability-work-week #LDWorkWeek. Mencap works to improve the lives of people with a learning disability, and...
Huntercombe launches Customer Voice Programme
November 2016. We are determined to ensure that our services deliver the best for all our customers and are designed with their needs in mind. Alongside our Patient Voice Programme, we have launched a Customer Voice Programme that gives our commissioners, referrers and stakeholders a real voice in...
Halloween
The day consisted of pumpkin decorating, fancy dress, spooky bingo, music and a body parts story where participants put their hands into the box to try to feel what is in there. Patients requested to help decorate the sports hall with items they had made throughout the week...
Huntercombe Maidenhead support Young Minds Campaign
When the team spoke to the young people about the campaign, they were really keen to get involved and wanted to wear something yellow to help raise awareness. The young people created t-shirts and a banner for the #HelloYellow campaign and took pictures of them. Patients said: Young...
Huntercombe Hospital Stafford hold a Macmillan day
There were cakes for sale including: Key lime pie, Carrot cake, and many more. There was also a Bric-a-Brac sale. The staff in the kitchen all baked a cake for the “Best cake “competition, some staying up into the early hours of the morning to get them finished....
