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In September 2011, the Weldmar Hospicecare Trust (Weldmar) held its 21st anniversary conference Complexities of Care – Ensuring Excellence in End of Life Care. The conference explored the need to meet the changing and growing expectations of hospice users and how this can be achieved at a time of significant demographic challenges and global economic crisis. To meet this challenge the Weldmar has innovatively reconfigured its services with the aims of building capacity, and further improving its offer, within existing resources.
Dai Roberts (St Ann’s Hospice) and Berys Birdfield (Nurse Practitioner – Older Person’s Mental Health) spoke at the conference. In this video both speakers set-out the need for a personalised approach to meeting patient/user need.
This video introduces the Solent Project, run at the Southern Health NHS Foundation Trusts’ Becton Centre, in 2010 – 2011.
This was an innovative project established to enhance the therapeutic value of the ward and patient experience. Innovation was achieved through the implementation of a new model of dementia care, drawing on principles of a ‘recovery model’ approach used extensively with younger people with mental health problems. The outcomes of the project included a 50% reduction on drug spend, 56% reduction in falls, 54% reduction of violent incidents, reduction in the need for some medical time on the ward (generating a saving) and improved patient and staff satisfaction.
In September 2011, the Weldmar Hospicecare Trust (Weldmar) held its 21st anniversary conference Complexities of Care – Ensuring Excellence in End of Life Care. The conference explored the need to meet the changing and growing expectations of hospice users and how this can be achieved at a time of significant demographic challenges and global economic crisis. To meet this challenge the Weldmar has innovatively reconfigured its services with the aims of building capacity, and further improving its offer, within existing resources.
Dai Roberts (St Ann’s Hospice) and Berys Birdfield (Nurse Practitioner – Older Person’s Mental Health) spoke at the conference. In this video both speakers set-out the need for a personalised approach to meeting patient/user need.