Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

An introduction to TEWV's insight newsletter and a few words from Lesley Bessant.

The Summer issue of the insight magazine features stories about the TEWV Arts exhibition, as part of mental health awareness week, County Durham and Darlington child and adolescent mental health services crisis and liaison service and TEWV's kaizen promotion office team to name but a few.

Here when the next copy of insight magazine is due and how to contact the communications team.

Living the Values is the chairman's award for staff who have mad a difference to service users, carers and families, colleagues or other customers.

This is a quick round up of other news from around the Trust.

Volunteering can be a rewarding experience, which benefits not only the service and the organisation, but also the individual. Here's how ...

There were mixed emotions at this year's nursing conference as staff said fare and thank you to director of nursing, Chris Stanbury and welcomed her replacement Elizabeth Moody to the Trust.

A pilot scheme, which is part of the Living Longer Lives programme, sees TEWV using an improved screening tool.

Elizabeth Moody, executive director of nursing and governance gives us an insight into her, including what she thinks is the best thing about her job.

The Trust, together with NHS Harrogate and Rural District clinical commissioning group (CCG), has been awarded Yorkshire and Humber Dementia Quality Award.

Following on from the success of the staff retreats, TEWV held its first retreat for service users and staff in May.

Gillian Restall, public governor for Stockton-on-Tees, held an event in June during carers' week, as part of her wider support group Northern Baptist Church Young@Heart.

Read about some of the highlights of the Trust's governors work.

An update on how many members TEWV has and events you are invited to.

Once again there was a full house at the Annual General and Members Meeting this year with over 200 attendees. This year's theme was young carers.

The flu vaccine is still the best protection we have against an unpredictable virus which can cause severe illness and deaths each year among at-risk groups.

Nicola Wigington, CQUIN facilitator at West Lane Hospital in Middlesbrough is leading the way in TEWV as a patients experience lead in child and adolescent mental health services.

In June the Trust officially announced its plans to support patients to go smoke free.

TEWV's healthcare assistant framework is helping new and existing healthcare assistants to improve their career development.

Rowan Lea at Cross Lane Hospital, Scarborough is the first ward in Scarborough, and across our mental health services for older people, to pilot the Institute of Psychiatry safewards project.

A new Section 136 place of safety assessment suite has opened at Harrogate District Hospital.

Final approval has been given for the new community team base in Middlesbrough.

The Trust's new specialist inpatient rehabilitation and recovery unit, The Orchards in Ripon, opened its doors for the first time during an open day in July.

Our Darlington and Teesdale mental health team for older people was part of a multi-disciplinary team that won the Best Integration Project of the Year award in the North East and Cumbria commissioning awards.

Positive behaviour clinics are being held across the Tees area to support people working with children who have behaviour difficulties.

A new crisis and liaison service opened on Teesside in July, providing quick support to children and young people who are in a mental health or emotional crisis.

Improved standard inpatient and community discharge letters have been developed by working with GPs, staff, service users and carers.

Paper cranes from our TEWVArtts exhibition held in May have winged their way to Japan with scouts and scout leaders from across North Yorkshire and Cleveland to form part of a memorial display.

Nominations are now open for the Making a Difference Awards 2015.

A few words from the Trust’s Chairman Lesley Bessant about what she’s been doing recently.

Welcome to the Autumn copy of insight magazine.

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Meet the rest of the winners and highly commended teams and individuals who were presented with their glass awards at the presentation evening. Debra Wood is winner of the very special Chairman's unsung hero award and Eric Jones, highly commended...

Meet the winners and highly commended teams and individuals presented with their glass awards at the presentation evening.

Now in its eighth year, the Trust's Making a Difference Awards ceremony is a wonderful opportunity to celebrate the ongoing achievements, successes and hard work of colleagues and teams across the Trust...

A brief update on Award for inclusive unit; green fingered staff raise awareness; changing the landscape; Investing in young people and baking for B-eat.

As part of #Timetotalk day, staff from the child and adolescent mental health service crisis and liaison team at Lanchester Road Hospital in Durham took five minutes to have a cup of tea and talk about their mental health.

The Mental Health Research Group (MHRG) is an academic unit, established in 2008 as a joint initiative between TEWV and Durham University. The focus of the group's two research programmes: Youth Mental Health and Primary Care Mental Health is on clinical trials.

A team from the Royal College of Psychiatrist's Quality Network for Forensic Mental Health Services visited Roseberry Park in Middlesbrough to look at its forensic services.

We have been awarded the prestigious gold standard by national business accreditors Investors in People (IIP).

Christopher Williams, chief pharmacist gives us an insight into him including what he thinks is the best thing about his job, how he spends his leisure time and his claim to fame.

An initiative that offers work experience to young people with additional learning needs or autism is being piloted in Scarborough, Whitby and Ryedale.

Hartlepool psychosis team is the first service to roll out the model line programme since it was piloted by teams in Stockton-on-Tees and Durham in 2014.

As lead governor I was interviewed by two Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspectors in January, as part of the wider Trust's CQC inspection.

Read the highlights of some of your governors work.

Details of how to get in touch with the Council of Governors and upcoming events you can attend.

An update on how members the Trust currently has.

The Mental Health Legislation Committee (MHLC) has two new members who are both public governors and services. This is the first time that governors have served on the committee of the Board.

Governors from the improving the experience of service users committee put their taste buds to the test, to seek assurance on the quality and choice of patients' meals.