Celebrating Practice & Networking Event

Specialist Dementia UnitsAn event to share and celebrate good practice

Thursday 5 October 2017Stirling Court HotelStirling FK9 4LA

Programme

10:00 Registration and coffee

10:30 Welcome(Chair)

Hugh Masters, Associate Chief Nursing Officer, Scottish Government

10:35 Keynote Address

Maureen Watt MSP. Minister for Mental Health.

10:45 Introduction and context

Hugh Masters. Associate Chief Nursing Officer, Scottish Government.

Henry Simmons. Chief Executive Alzheimer Scotland.

11:00 Maureen Taggart- Dementia Nurse Consultant . Alzheimer Scotland

11:15-11:40 Comfort break and poster viewing

11:40 Concurrent sessions

Session 1: Person Centred Interventions for People Experiencing Stress and Distress

Session 2: Improving practice improving care

Session 3: Systematic change and improvement

12:40-13:40 Lunch – poster viewing and networking

13:40 Concurrent sessions

Session 4: Specialist Dementia Units Demonstrator sites

Session 5: Meeting people’s complex physical health care needs

Session 6: Improving person centred care and interventions

Session 7 : Partnerships for positive change

14:40-15:00 Comfort break

15:00 Plenary and next steps

Chair: Michelle Miller. Portfolio Lead. Focus on Dementia, Healthcare Improvement Scotland.

Hugh Masters, Associate Chief Nursing Officer, Scottish Government.

Maureen Taggart, Dementia Nurse Consultant . Alzheimer Scotland

Susanne Forrest, Programme Director, NHS Education Scotland

Tom McCarthy, Improvement Advisor, Healthcare Improvement Scotland

15:30 Conference Close

Stephen Lithgow, Associate Improvement Advisor, Healthcare Improvement Scotland

Celebrating Practice & Networking Event

Specialist Dementia Units

1. Steven MacDonald, NHS Forth Valley Meaningful activities to improve the quality of patient experience

2. Sharon Armstrong, NHS LothianDevelopment and implementation of complex health care needs training

3. Rachel MacLeod, NHS Ayrshire & Arran Come to your senses about dementia – experiential learning

4. Mairi Johnson, NHS LothianAppreciating a Day in Prospect Bank, Findlay House

5. Julia Wells, NHS GrampianExperience Based Co-Design. Strathbeg Ward

6. Christine Murphy, NHS GG&CA Day in the Life of Balmore. Using Experience Based Co-Design

7. Margaret Addis, Arlene McManus, BUPAOrbiston Community at Hatton Lea Care Home. A Demonstrator Site with the Specialist Dementia Unit Improvement Programme, Improvement Hub.

8. Tom McCarthy, HISSpecialist Dementia Unit Improvement Programme

9. Phil Smith, NHS LanarkshireSystemic developments in NHS Lanarkshire Specialist Dementia Units

10. Morna Russell, NHS LothianIt’s Amazing – Playlists for Life: personalised music for people with dementia.

Cognitive Stimulation Therapy groups in NHS dementia assessment wards – successes and challenges.

“In the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” (quote attributed to Abraham Lincoln)

The occupational therapy contribution to the care of older people with mental health conditions in NHS Hospital Based Complex Clinical Care wards.

11. Morna Russell, NHS LothianCognitive Stimulation Therapy groups in NHS dementia assessment wards – successes and challenges.

12. Morna Russell, NHS Lothian“In the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” (quote attributed to Abraham Lincoln) The occupational therapy contribution to the care of older people with mental health conditions in NHS Hospital Based Complex Clinical Care wards.

13. Lorraine McLeod, NHS Ayrshire & ArranForget me not garden

14. Lorraine Haining, NHS Dumfries & GallowayImproving the patient and care experience

15. Lorraine Haining, NHS Dumfries & GallowayOver the rainbow

16. Linda McDougal, NHS Dumfries & GallowayAssessing end of life care within an acute mental health ward

17. Karen Hutton, NHS TaysideTransforming psychiatric assessment for people in care homes

18. Julia Wells, NHS GrampianContemporary approaches to meeting key objectives of committment11 (now seven) from a health and social care perspective within Grampian

19. Janice McAllister, Erskine HospitalImproving Practice – Improving Care

20. Doreen Mall, NHS GG&CProviding Effective Person Centred Occupational Therapy in Advanced Dementia care

21. Ashling Mooney, NHS Lanarkshire Audit on the use of AWI S47 forms in an old age mental health unit

22. Stephanie Crawford, NHS GG&CThe assessment and management of distressed behaviour in dementia: an audit of pre and post training practice

23. Helen Skinner, NHS FifeA pilot study to explore the effects of individualised music on agitation in patients with moderate to severe dementia in a specialist mental health hospital setting: a single case experimental reversal design study

24. Frances Aitken, NHS LothianTogether is a powerful tool

25. Colin MacDonald, NHS LothianReducing Stress and Distress in Long Term settings

26. Angela Watson, NHS GG&C Falls reduction in specialist dementia assessment unit

27. Geraldine Hutton, NHS GG&CPhysical Health Care planning

28. Lorraine Haining/Gillian Bowie, NHS Dumfries & GallowayUse of DCM (Dementia Care Mapping) in a Specialist dementia care unit

29. Kerry Lowe/Penny Wood, NHS FifeHolistic Older Adults Assessment Tool. Using the Promoting Excellence Framework to improve the care provided in the inpatient service

30. Colin McNally, NHS TaysideDeveloping, delivering and implementing a psychological approach to understanding and managing stress and distress in dementia in inpatient settings

31. Carolanne Shaw, NHS Lothian“I have a Right to End of Life Care That Respects my Wishes” Standards of care for Dementia in Scotland (2011)

32. Stephanie McClymont, NHS Ayrshire & ArranGAME On: Translating meaningful activity into everyday practice and making it everybody’s business

Posters

Speaker Biographies

Hugh Masters

Associate Chief Nursing Officer and Health Professional Policy Lead for Older People, Learning Disabilities and Mental Health, Scottish Government

After training as a mental health nurse, Hugh worked in a variety of practice settings, before moving to Edinburgh Napier University as a senior lecturer. In 2009, he took up a post in the Scottish Government as Nursing Officer for Mental Health and Learning Disabilities and in March 2012 moved to his present post in the Scottish Government. He is currently focused on assuring the care of older people in hospitals and the implementation of the Standards of Care for Dementia in hospital settings.

Henry Simmons

Henry Simmons joined Alzheimer Scotland as Chief Executive in August 2008, prior to this he worked as an Executive Director with ENABLE Scotland. He is a registered Social Worker, RMN and has an MBA.

Henry has over twenty years’ experience in the health and social care sector and has spent the majority of his career in the voluntary sector, primarily involved in developing new community-based person-centred services.

Henry has worked in both the learning disability and mental health fields. He was a Board Member of Alzheimer Europe for several years and is a General Member of the Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland. He is also chair of the NHS NES/SSSC Dementia Programme Board and currently a member of the Fair Work Convention.

Recently, Henry has been fortunate to be awarded Honorary Doctorates from both Queen Margaret University and Glasgow Caledonian University.

Susanne Forrest

Susanne’s background is in nursing having initially trained as a general and then mental health nurse. Most of her career has been spent in education, firstly in the university sector as a Lecturer and Senior Lecturer, and currently in her post at NHS Education for Scotland where she is Programme Director leading the Mental Health, Learning Disability and Dementia Programmes of work. She has also been involved in policy development and was seconded to the former Scottish Executive to take forward a review of Mental Health Nursing in Scotland.

She is passionate about improving the care and support of people with dementia and their families and carers and led the initial development, and now the ongoing implementation of the ‘Promoting Excellence’ framework and workforce development plan at NHS Education for Scotland.

Maureen Taggart

National Dementia Nurse Consultant Alzheimer Scotland

Prior to her appointment to the National Dementia Nurse Consultant with Alzheimer Scotland she had an excellent 38 year career with the NHS retiring in December 2014.

She held various post including Team Leader for the Community Mental Health Team for Older People, Service Development Manager for a rural area in Lanarkshire, Service Manager for Mental Health Services with the Operational Lead for Old Age Psychiatry across the organisation. Thereafter she was appointed to the Alzheimer Scotland Nurse Consultant post in 2010 for NHS Lanarkshire with a specific remit to improve the quality of care for people with dementia in the Acute General Hospitals and supporting the Dementia Champions as agents of change and innovation.

Following the Dignity and Respect Report by the Mental Welfare Commission in June 2014 Scottish Government and Alzheimer Scotland jointly funded her post to work with Health Boards across Scotland to analyse the full implications of the inability of clinicians to discharge and suitability of alternative accommodation and other arrangements. Also, to develop a potential transition planning model and what it will take to support those individuals inappropriately placed in these environments to make a safe and effective transition.

Tom McCarthy

Tom is an Improvement Advisor with the Focus on Dementia Portfolio at Healthcare Improvement Scotland. Tom has specific responsibility for the delivery of the Specialist Dementia Unit Improvement Programme. Tom has expertise and experience of a range of improvement approaches.

Tom joined NHS Scotland as a management trainee in 2006 working in NHS Ayrshire and Arran. He has an MSc in Healthcare Management and Leadership and has worked in a variety of roles in NHS Scotland including a review of Non-Surgical Oncology in the South East of Scotland cancer network and supporting the development of the palliative and end of life care strategy in NHS Lothian. Prior to joining Healthcare Improvement Scotland Tom has worked in St Georges Hospital in London where he supported a range of improvement programmes in the trust.

Outwith work Tom is a member of the Action on Hearing Loss Scottish Advisory Group, enjoys staying active and reading.