World Delirium awareness day

For world delirium awareness day on 15th March 2023 we are calling on all creative staff to design a delirium noticeboard in their ward or department –the theme this year is ‘Delirium is everybody’s business’

Your board must contain the following – information for staff, relatives and patients & guidance on how in your team to ‘suspect it, spot it and stop it’.

For more information visit the delirium website and follow the #icanpreventdelirium hashtag on Twitter

The boards will be judged on 15th March and an exciting prize will be given to the winning team To take part in this competition please contact Julia.nevin@nhs.net

Updated policies

The following new and revised policies are now available on Pandora:

RM92 Maternity Abduction and Unauthorised Access Policy v 1.1

RM80 Rapid Tranquilisation of Adult and Older Patients Policy v 4 0

OP26 Trust Infant Feeding Policy v 7 0

OP44 Missing Patient Policy v 6.0

MH29 Clinical Risk Management and Suicide Prevention Policy v 3.2

MH30 Management of Misuse of Alcohol and or illicit substances within mental health inpatient services v 4.0

MH32 Long Term Segregation Policy v 2.0

MH37 Mental Health Engagement and Observation Policy v 2.0

Please remember to use Microsoft Edge to access Pandora (Google Chrome is not compatible).