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This webinar will look at how integration between different parts of the health system can provide solutions to some of challenges that mental health services face. Why attend? We often hear of the challenges in providing great mental health support. However, we hear less about the innovative solutions that the health and care system is implementing to meet the challenges, and how these can be replicated. This webinar will focus on how integration between different parts of the health system can provide solutions to some of challenges that mental health services face. Who will I hear from? Sonya Mclean, Crisis Care Commissioning Manager at Hampshire, Southampton and Isle of Wight CCG Dr Adam Cox, Clinical Director at Southampton CCG Beth Ford, User Involvement Manager for Mental Health, Learning Disabilities and Specialities Services, Service User/Patient and Carer Feedback Lead for Hampshire, Southampton and Isle of Wight CCG Discover: how a collaboration between Hampshire, Southampton and Isle of Wight CCG and numerous partners including patients, ambulance services, police, and voluntary sector organisations has reduced 999 mental health contacts by 26 per cent through a NHS 111 mental health triage services. how Doncaster CCG worked with their local authority, CAMHS services, police, education, and other partners to accelerated improvements to children and young people’s services around suicide prevention and self-harm, improving assessments, planning and service delivery. what the key enablers and challenges to innovation are in the mental health sector and how barriers to innovation can be overcome. what supports and drives better partnership working between different parts of the system. other inspiring solutions that being crafted across the sector and what networking/cross-working can take place. greater awareness of the sector and how different parts are innovating or integrating their services then adapting these solutions to benefit your local area. More information and register

This conference focuses on Prehabilitation – Principles and Practice, and will provide a practical guide to delivering an effective prehabilitation programme, ensuring patients are fit and optimised for surgery/treatment. This is even more important in light of the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdowns which have had a negative effect on many individual’s health and fitness levels, and currently high waiting lists could be used as preparation time to ensure the best outcomes. The conference will look at preoperative/pre treatment optimisation of patients fitness and wellbeing through exercise, nutrition and psychological support. This conference will enable you to: Network with colleagues who are working to deliver effective prehabilitation for surgery/treatment Reflect on a patient lived experience to understand how to engage patients in prehab programmes Learn from outstanding practice in implementing a prehabilitation programme Embed virtual prehabilitation into your programme during and beyond Covid-19 Demonstrate a business case for prehabilitation and ensure prehab services continue through and beyond the pandemic Reflect on national developments and learning Improve the way we support patients to prepare themselves, physically and emotionally for surgery/treatment Develop your skills in Behaviour Change and Motivational Interviewing Embed virtual prehabilitation into your programme during and beyond Covid-19 Learn from case studies Understand how you can improve emotional and psychological support Explore the role of prehabilitation in older people Work with patients to improve nutrition Ensure you are up to date with the latest evidence Self assess and reflect on your own practice Supports CPD professional development and acts as revalidation evidence. This course provides 5 Hrs training for CPD subject to peer group approval for revalidation purposes. Register

With more than 70,000 excess deaths during the 2003 heatwave in Europe, the acceleration of certain vector-borne diseases, poor air quality and increasing levels of climate anxiety, climate change is already having adverse health impacts on people’s physical and mental health. This report comprehensively addresses some of the most threatening health impacts of climate change. Each of the chapters within the report analyses the relation between climate change and the consequential health impacts and, through a series of case studies, showcases best practise on how we can tackle this. The report serves not just to highlight the extent of the link between climate change and health but also demonstrates that solutions are in our grasp to prevent and mitigate the health consequences of climate change. The webinar ‘The climate crisis and its health impacts‘ will centre around three themes: How climate change impacts human health What can be done to prevent or mitigate such impacts Why it’s important to prioritise public health in the climate debate and methods to achieve this Speakers Elaine Mulcahy, Director UK Health Alliance on Climate Change Dr Marina Romanello, Executive Director, Lancet Countdown Dr Claus Runge, Senior Vice President, Public Affairs & Sustainability at Bayer How to attend To attend this report launch webinar on Zoom please register for your joining link.

The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) is hosting its second virtual symposium showcasing the latest research conducted within the NIHR School for Public Health Research Public Mental Health (PMH) Programme. At the symposium, you will be able to: hear updates on the latest research from across the PMH programme, provide comments and feedback on the findings, ask academic and peer researchers questions about public mental health research, improve your own knowledge of public mental health research, build connections with others interested in public mental health. Audience This event is free to attend and open to anyone interested in public mental health, including members of the Public Mental Health (PMH) Network. Programme This is a one-day event with morning and afternoon sessions that need to be booked separately. Morning session: 10.00am – 12.30pm This session will showcase the work from Phase 2 of the Public Mental Health Programme, which has been focused on evaluating promising approaches (activities, programmes, etc.) for mental health. This programme of work is divided into eight projects: five that explore public mental health in adults, and three projects which explore public mental health in children and young people: Adult mental health projects Co-located services for working-age adults Community interventions for older adults Economic evaluation of public mental health interventions Using big data to understand public mental health interventions and inequalities Public perspectives on inequalities in public mental health Children & young people mental health projects School culture and student mental health: a participatory action research study Qualitative case study examining the links between school culture and student mental health Creating a Health Research Network to improve young people’s mental health and well-being There will be presentations on all eight projects co-facilitated by academic researchers and peer researchers who have worked together throughout this phase of the programme. Afternoon session: 2.00 – 4.30pm The afternoon session will be made up of a series of short presentations showcasing the SPHR public mental health work from: PhD students Public Health Practice Evaluation Scheme (PHPES) Pre-doctoral and Post-doctoral Fellows Our Research Network (ResNet) members A full programme for the event will be made available soon. Inclusion Both the morning and afternoon sessions will include a series of presentations. In the morning session, you will have the opportunity to ask questions after the presentations, in breakout rooms, and in the chat box on Zoom. Your question will then be read by a moderator and either responded to directly in the chat or read out loud and answered. In the afternoon session, presenters will be monitoring the chat and using it to respond directly to any questions. Presentation slides used during the event will be read out loud. This will be through a mixture of live and pre-recorded presentations, which will also be made available to view on the SPHR website after the event. If there are any access requirements you would like us to be aware of, please answer the question when completing your registration form. Any information given regarding personal access requirements will be used to inform access during the event. All information will be kept confidential. Register Morning and afternoon sessions must be booked separately. Please click on the links below to register for these sessions. Morning session Afternoon session Contact Please email publicmentalhealth@ucl.ac.uk if you have any questions.

This webinar delivered by the East Midlands Patient Safety Collaborative and The AHSN Network will provide an introduction to safety culture and the impact it can have. To register, email kursoom.khan@nottingham.ac.uk

Making Families Count has developed a new Webinar, based on extensive experience of it's members, to explore how mental health professionals can work effectively with families when they raise safety concerns about their relatives. This webinar focusses on effective risk management in the community and how healthcare professionals can work better with families when they raise safety concerns about their relatives. This webinar explores what happens when critical information is absent from treatment plans and how to utilise families effectively as part of the care team. It will also address issues of how to work well and effectively with families after a serious incident or mental health homicide. Use this link to find out who is speaking and to book your place for this online event: https://www.makingfamiliescount.org.uk/what-we-do/webinars/#managing-risk

In the dawn of a new era for digital and health tech transformation, the Leading Healthcare Innovation Summit looks to bring together emerging communities in healthcare to solve the most pressing issues facing the UK healthcare sector. It will be addressing the sector’s biggest challenges and concerns including the mental health of clinicians and patients; clinical pathways; diversity and inclusion in data and products; service and user inclusive design; remote patient monitoring; virtual consultations and ICS development. You will leave with action points to push forward your digital health projects, aided with the tools and knowledge to make digital innovation a reality in your organisation. Register

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This Westminister Education Forum policy seminar will examine priorities, policy and best practice for improving child mental health in England - with a particular focus on the impact of the pandemic Overall, key areas for discussion in this conference include: immediate priorities for supporting children’s mental health following the pandemic and a return to in-person education identifying root causes of poor mental health, and best practice for prevention assessing child mental health services, and looking at how they can be improved, including the role of inspections in raising standards. Agenda Register

This national conference looks at the practicalities of Serious Incident Investigation and Learning from Deaths in Mental Health Services. The event will look at the development and implementation of the New Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (previously known as the Serious Incident Framework) which has now been published for the early adopter sites as introductory guidance, and will examine how this will fit with the Royal College of Psychiatrists Care Review Tool for mortality review. A 20% discount is currently available. Quote HCUK20dmh when booking. Register

Join Bevan Brittan for the next in their series of webinars discussing the government’s proposed changes to the Mental Health Act. In this webinar they will be looking at the consultation questions and inviting your input to help them submit a response that reflects your priorities. Register

The Professional Records Standard Body (PRSB) are holding a workshop on 4 March to help us develop a shared decision-making standard, so that individuals can be more involved in the decisions that affect their health, care and wellbeing. The online workshop will bring together health and care professionals, patients and system vendors to focus on different topics including diabetes and other long-term conditions, mental health, child health, gynaecology, colorectal cancer, genetic conditions, multi-medications and orthopaedics. We will be asking questions about the way information about treatment and care options are discussed and decisions recorded. This would include consent for treatment, when it is agreed, and any pre-operative assessments and requirements. By standardising the process, it will ensure that information can be shared consistently using any digital systems. If you’re interested in getting involved in the project, please contact info@theprsb.org

Good mental health services are now recognised as vital to the NHS and to the health of the nation. With that in mind, the NHS Long Term Plan proposes to significantly increase mental health investment and envisages data and technology as central to transforming services. Stepping forward to 2020/21 sets out the need for continued development of the mental health workforce. We need mental health services that offer the best available care, provided by staff who can work effectively in a culture of continuous improvement. What will result when this policy alignment meets technological progress? This webinar from GovConnect will highlight the potential for emerging technologies to impact on our understanding of mental health and the care that we provide, identifying broad trends that are already underway, which are set to transform mental health services and the workforce who deliver them. Register

This virtual conference will focus on reducing restrictive interventions in line with national guidance and ensuring adherence to the National NICE Quality Standard on Violence and Aggression. This focus on reducing restrictive practice is particularly important in light of COVID-19 where mental health services have reported spikes in incidents of physical restraint or seclusion on patients, driven by covid-19 restrictions (HSJ 5th June 2020). Further information and to book your place or email kate@hc-uk.org.uk Follow the conversation on Twitter #reducingrestrictivepractice We are pleased to offer hub members a 10% discount. Email: info@pslhub.org for the code.