Improving Physical Health

In 2006 CSIP West Midlands began a programme of work to support the equal treatment agenda, including funding two Physical Health Care pilot projects targeting people with both severe and common mental health problems and the coordination of a learning event, held in April 2006, to help share learning and good practice from across the region.

A year on, in partnership with learning disability colleagues in CSIP, held a second event on April 30th 2007at the Centennial Centre in Birmingham.

This event gave delegates the chance to share their own experiences of supporting this agenda over the last year, find out how CSIP West Midland's pilot projects have progressed, and learn from the experiences of the learning disability sector. For more information on this conference please read the following report and open the following links.

 

Event Report

Improving physical health and

well-being for people with

mental health problems and/or

learning disabilities

30th April 2007-Centennial Centre

Sharing ideas and approaches

 

Professionals working in mental health and learning disabilities came together on 30th April 2007 for a very successful event to share what has been going on across the West Midlands to improve the physical health and well-being of the people they work with. This was a follow-up, to an event held one year ago when we launched our two Physical Health Care pilots in Telford and Wrekin and Rugby. To access the presentations and the event evaluation please follow the links below:

Welcome and Introduction and background to the event

See Kate O’Hara and Rachel Heywood’s presentation (ppt-137 KB )

What’s been happening across the region?

See Tom Howell’s presentation (ppt- 61KB) and Current Activity document (pdf- 29KB)

Telford and Wrekin and Rugby Physical Health Pilots - the story so far………..

See Carolyn Foreman’s (ppt - 81KB) and Heather Brown’s presentation (ppt- 3MB)

Market Place

See Stall description document(pdf - 18KB)

What can we learn from the Learning Disability sector?

See Valuing Health, Improving the Health of People with Learning Disabilities presentation (ppt - 4.25MB)

Action planning

See Next Steps document ( ppt - 23KB

Event evaluation

See evaluation analysis document (xls-18KB) and evaluation notes showing personal learning and action planning (pdf-26KB)

 

Public Organisations and Physical Health

 

Some people with experience of mental health problems say that their physical health can be overlooked by healthcare professionals, despite evidence that feeling physically fit and well can help us improve our mental health, mood and well-being.

To read more please visit our shift website

For more details, please contact Melanie Nicholas

 

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