Combinations Podcast from Combined Healthcare NHS Trust

In this latest podcast about the Community Mental Health Transformation Programme, we find out more about the work being undertaken for Young Adults from the workstream leads Deborah Hargreaves, Combined Healthcare, and Michaela Kemp, MPFT. **Correction: The Voice Project, Staffordshire, is referred to in the podcast as being within the VCSE sector. The Voice Project are a dedicated team at Staffo...

As part of Freedom To Speak Up Month 2022, we catch up with a group of our Freedom To Speak Up Champions. Combined Healthcare is proud to have one of the strongest Freedom To Speak Up infrastructures in the NHS, with every Directorate and our staff networks represented by a Champion. In this episode, we hear from Rob Sillito, Charles Lwanga. Veronica Emlyn, Corrina Bentley and Rachel Machin about...

The Edward Myers Unit provides high-quality, effective substance misuse recovery services for people with complex physical and mental health needs. Its NHS-run, managed inpatient detox service achieves outstanding results through its combination of specialist medical care and holistic therapeutic support. The Unit accepts patients from community drug and alcohol services across the UK as well as p...

In this episode of Combinations looking at the Community Mental Health Transformation Programme, we hear from Dr Waheed Abbasi and Dr Murray Campbell discussing Primary Care Networks and the changes happening within primary care to support the community mental health transformation.

This podcast is another QI insider, Jayne as a guest today called Sab Kaur and they will be talking about Edward Myers.

In the combinations episode today, we speak with a range of Guest about the well-being portal, this portal is an essential tool to help anybody understand something that they would like to know in terms of their well-being and health. https://combinedwellbeing.org.uk

As part of the Year 2 Community Mental Health Transformation Programme, we are focusing on a different theme in each month's podcast. July's podcast looks at Digital Transformation and reflects on the collaborative North Staffordshire, South Staffordshire and system work that has taken place so far and will be delivered in the Programme. In this podcast, recorded in the record heat of July, Dave H...

Today we're featuring a great story about a staff member who has not only joined North Combined Healthcare NHS Trust, but has already started progressing her career into leadership. Sarah is a shining example of what our organization can achieve, and we're excited to see her continue to grow and succeed in her role.

Combinations Episode 47 - QI Insider (Improving patient access to repeat prescriptions) by Combined Healthcare NHS Trust

This latest podcast is about the Community Mental Health Transformation Programme and the Population Health/Health Inequalities work that is underway.

This episode of combinations delves into a patient story, where Shirley tells us about the experience that she had while at ward 6. We really pride ourselves on our service user experiences and this is why we give combinations the platform the ability to showcase some of the stories from a patient's perspective

In this Episode of Combinations we get an insight to a member of staff from North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS trust, details of the compelling story of how he got into the world of CBT and where it all started, plus how he built on his own diagnosis of autism to play a leading role in promoting neuro-diversity at Combined.

The CASTT service offers a pan-Trust service to those service users that are diagnosed with a personality disorder to include provision of intensive and assertive support, and support for those who may be at risk of exclusion from their community. The team offer the Structured Clinical Management model and Specialist Psychological Therapy in the form of Mentalised Based Therapy (MBT). In this epis...

To mark the Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Virtual Wellbeing Week, in conversation with Kyle Holloway, the Trust's Wellbeing Lead Neil Clarke discusses wellbeing partly drawing upon his own personal experiences, how the Trust and wider system supports our staff and service users - and the new opportunities for people to become Wellbeing Ambassadors. To participate in the Together We're Better Vi...

Ward 2 Manager, Vickie Washington explains the thinking and practice behind the "Recovery Book" - co-produced by staff and service users to engage everyone collectively in culture change to improve compassionate care - and how it has proven its usefulness, popularity and effectiveness in a time of challenge and change. You can also watch Vickie talking about the Recovery Book's nomination for a Nu...

Combined Healthcare is proud to launch a new addition to its portfolio of communications products and channels – Combined Virtual Reality (CVR). Combined Virtual Reality harnesses the latest innovations in communications tools and techniques. Virtual reality is an experience that can be similar to or completely different from the real world. Applications of virtual reality include entertainment, e...

The Trust’s QI Lead, Jayne Beasley explains the fundamentals of the QI approach, the tools and techniques available to Trust staff and teams via the Trust’s Learning Management System, and sets out the QI Team’s vision for driving quality improvement across everything Combined does.

Todays Podcast we listen to Jacqui's amazing carer story that showcases the level of compassion at Combined Jacqui, the mother-in-law of a patient on Wards 4 and 6, tells us her experience of Combined Healthcare's service during a difficult time for her and her family. Humbling, but SO Proud of Wards 4 and 6

Community mental health services in Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire are being transformed as part of a multi-million-pound investment programme. In this podcast, we find out more about co-production and what this actually means, and how it is working in the Community Mental Health Transformation Programme. If you're interested in co-production on the programme and would like to get involved as a...

In the second of our series of podcasts highlighting innovations being introduced as part of our Digital Exemplars programme, we feature our Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration project - something close to the heart of our new Interim Chief Executive, Dr Buki Adeyemo.

Combined Healthcare is proud to be a national Digital Exemplar. Over the next few weeks, we will be shining a light on some specific digital innovations in the support we are giving to frontline staff and the service users whose care they deliver - talking directly with the clinical and digital staff working hand in hand to deliver them. In this first example, we focus on our Community Aide app. T...

Tanisha Simpson, Hector Musonza and Sarah Wanjiku, North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust, discuss Black History Month 2021 and #ProudToBe

Community mental health services in Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire are being transformed as part of a multi-million-pound investment programme. Following on from Episode 32, we find out about the priority work of SMI physical healthchecks in North Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent as part of the programme, and speak to some of the key leads for this work.

Community mental health services in Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire are being transformed as part of a multi-million-pound investment programme. Following on from Episode 31, we find out about the developments in the Community Mental Health Transformation Programme from some of the key leads at North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust - including the senior responsible owner for the prog...

Community mental health services in Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire are being transformed as part of a multi-million pound investment programme. North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust is leading the work across Stoke-on-Trent and North Staffordshire, and in this podcast we talk to some of the key leads at the Trust - including the senior responsible owner of the programme and our Direc...