After a fantastic inclusive day, we are delighted to announce our finalists and winners of the 2019 National Service User Awards:
Raising Mental Health Awareness Award
Winner:
The Community Partnership Development Manager project
Cygnet Hospital Derby, Cygnet Health Care
As part of the expansion of Cygnet Hospital Derby’s Recovery and Wellbeing Academy, the team created the Community Partnership Development Manager post to help create new partnerships and opportunities for their students.
Other finalists:
- Road to Recovery Waterloo Manor, Inmind Healthcare
- ‘We are all on a Journey’ Musical Show & Radio Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Community Living Skills Project Cygnet Hospital Bury, Cygnet Health Care
- Waterloo Pride 2018 Waterloo Manor, Inmind Healthcare
The project that won the service user choice vote was ‘We are all on a Journey’ Musical Show & Radio – Moorlands View, Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust.
Health and Wellbeing Award
Winner:
The Cycling Towards Hope, Health and Happiness project
Rampton Hospital’s Diamond Resource Centre, part of Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Patients and staff who attend the Diamond Resource Centre were thinking of new ways that they could keep fit and active. They had a brilliant idea of introducing ‘bikes for all’ to use as a way to help increase their physical activity levels as a community.
Other finalists:
- Patient Bike Project The Chichester Centre, Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Sports Day and Cream Teas Rampton Hospital, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Run 4 Recovery and Sylvia’s Bootcamp, from Couch to 5k Cygnet Hospital Derby, Cygnet Health Care
- All Things Co-Pro – Preceptorship Nurse Continuing Professional Development Day Cygnet Hospital Derby, Cygnet Health Care
The project that won the service user choice vote was Run 4 Recovery and Sylvia’s Bootcamp, from Couch to 5k – Cygnet Hospital Derby, Cygnet Health Care.
Recovery and the Arts Award
Winner:
The Recovery College – Learn to Play the Ukulele
Cygnet Hospital Kewstoke, Cygnet Health Care
This initiative was suggested and driven forward by a service user who was passionate about the ukulele as a tool for recovery. The four week course was fully co-produced to provide service users and staff alike with the opportunity to learn to tune, care for and play the ukulele. The group chose songs to learn to play and sing, culminating in a performance at the Christmas carol concert. The feedback from participants was overwhelmingly positive – as Phoebe from Cygnet Hospital Kewstoke says, “If I can do it, ‘uke’ can do it too!”
Other finalists:
- Patient Lead Social Involvement Events with a Music Theme Cygnet Hospital Bury, Cygnet Health Care
- Recovery College Collaborative Art and Gallery One Waterloo Manor, Inmind Healthcare
- Recovery Academy does Pride Cygnet Hospital Derby, Cygnet Health Care
- The PD Pathway Oscars Rampton Hospital, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
The project that won the service user choice vote was The PD Pathway Oscars – Rampton Hospital, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
Community and Education Projects Award
Winner:
The Another Day in Paradise project
Waterloo Manor, Inmind Healthcare
Another Day in Paradise was a play made to show a day in the life of a patient detained in a mental health hospital, using personal experience and humour to help fight against the stigma of mental health.
Other finalists:
- Mental Health in the Community – Social Inclusion Cygnet Hospital Bury, Cygnet Health Care
- An Idiots Guide to DBT Waterloo Manor, Inmind Healthcare
- Community Partnerships Improving the Pathway to Recovery North London Forensic Service, Barnet Enfield and Haringey NHS Mental Health Trust
- Women’s Service Oscars Ceremony, ‘An evening of celebration’ Rampton Hospital, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
The project that won the service user choice vote was An Idiots Guide to DBT – Waterloo Manor, Inmind Healthcare.
Outstanding Service User Achievement Award
Winner:
Bridie
Service user at the West London Forensic Service
Bridie is a pioneer, role-model for co-production and a true beacon of hope & inspiration for her peers. Her unfaltering commitment has helped to shift culture around CPAs. Her philosophy is “just because it’s always been done that way, doesn’t mean it can’t be done a better way”.
Other finalists:
- Gender Trends Workshop Tamarind Centre, Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Trust
- My DBT Hero Rampton Hospital, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Centre Stage Blog Hellingly Centre, Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Exploring the Lived Experience of Women in Secure Care Services
- Teddy’s One Stop Shop Stockton Hall, Priory
The project that won the service user choice vote was Exploring the Lived Experience of Women in Secure Care Services.
The Service User Choice Award
Winner:
Exploring the Lived Experience of Women in Secure Care Services
This nationwide exploration of more than 180 women’s stories, lives and experiences of secure care services has spread hope; has led to tangible improvements across services; and has been fundamental to the development of the ‘Women’s Blended Service’ pilots being funded by the NHS England Mental Health Secure Care Programme.