25 September 2024 Life Beyond the Cubicle New free eLearning resources for health and social care professionals working in mental health services and emergency departments are now available in time for World Mental Health Day 10 October 2024. These resources were co-created by people with lived experience as patients, family carers and …
Following the tragic death of my daughter-in-law, I began to get involved in various initiatives to support clinicians to improve mental health services, and learn from deaths by overcoming the barriers to meaningful engagement of family and friends’ carers. I joined Making Families Count, and met with other family members and health …
Our first bespoke training for 2024 will take place in April when we travel to Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust to deliver three days of bespoke face-to-face training to all the managers of this trust. The training will cover staff responsiveness and working with families with confidence, using …
Making Families Count member Trevor Stevens spoke to Marina Cantacuzino as part of her BBC Sounds series “Forgiveness – Stories from the Front Line”, which has also been shared on Radio 4. If you haven’t heard this programme yet, I strongly recommend it to you. It’s powerful and humbling though …
This year, Making Families Count have been asked to speak at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Annual Conference on 26 March in Birmingham. Rosi Reed will be speaking as part of a longer session on the use and implementation of Martha’s Rule and how we can improve …
Making Families Count are pleased to announce that we have two new members, Trevor Stevens and Sue Willgoss, and our new members have already been busy working with MFC. Trevor has written pieces for our blog and been a speaker at several MFC webinars. Sue has been working with MFC members …
Rosi Reed of Making Families Count will be speaking at the Patient Safety Education Network on Friday 8 March. Her presentation is “The importance of establishing a meaningful relationship with families after a patient safety incident”, though she’ll also be talking about the work of Making Families Count and the training …
On November 2nd, 2017, I was transported instantly from the bubble I call my life, to a completely different bubble. My new, hugely unwelcome bubble happened when my grandson Harry was born at East Kent hospitals and made extremely unwell by abstract poor care. The new bubble demanded completely different …
HSJ are delighted to invite Rosi Reed of Making Families Count to join the HSJ Patient Safety Congress 2024 Advisory Board. The core focus of the Advisory Board is to work with the organisers to recommend content and speakers for the congress and ensure that the event provides the best …
Back in the summer, I tuned in to Newsnight for an item about an NHS Trust where 8,000 people in touch with mental health services died in three years. My daughter was one of the 8,000. Whilst watching the programme, I wondered what I would have thought if I hadn’t …