ALLIANCE Christmas Networking event December 1st 12pm-

Monday 1st December 2014, 12:00 – 16:30

The ALLIANCE, Venlaw Building, 349 Bath Street, Glasgow G2 4AA

 

Come and join us at our next members’ networking event: Self Management, Partnerships in Practice on Monday 1st December 2014 at 12pm. 

 

On the day, there will be three networking sessions to encourage sharing experiences. Explore partnership working, how to engage people and co-production. 

 

Inspirational speakers will share their achievements through effective partnerships and there will be some Christmas surprises. 

 

This event is open to all members of the ALLIANCE but may be of particular interest to you if you have any key experiences of self management and partnership working to share or you want to learn more about how others make their partnerships work. 

 

If you are interested in attending this event, e-mail

event@alliance-scotland.org.uk including any access or dietary requirements

 

Please also list the networking sessions you would like to attend in order of preference. 

 

The networking sessions are: 

Partnership Working 

Engaging People 

Co-Production 

 

We look forward to networking with you!

Speaking at Citizens Advice Direct Scotland Annual General Meeting 2014

 

 

 

Looking forward to speaking at Citizens Advice Direct Scotland Annual General Meeting 2014 this Friday at the Grand Central Hotel, Glasgow at 6.30pm

 

Massive thanks to Andrew Bartlett for inviting me to speaking on the evening.

 

"Having outgrown The Corinthian, 2014's Advice Direct Scotland trading as Citizens Advice Direct's Annual General Meeting is moving to the Grand Ballroom at Glasgow's iconic Grand Central Hotel. Speakers include Nigel Kershaw, co-founder and chair of The Big Issue and CEO of Big Issue Invest, and the inspirational Tommy Whitelaw, who will talk about his mission to raise awareness of dementia.
The AGM will last for approximately one hour, followed by drinks, food and networking"

If you would like to attend please register through Eventbrite at:

http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/advice-direct-scotland-annual-general-meeting-2014-tickets-12100628305

Tommy
 

    Thanks for reading my blog, You can now view my 8 short flims here!  http://tommy-on-tour-2011.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/my-mums-name-was-joan-this-is-our-story.html  

7 days-17 talks-7 towns-cities-Another busy week For MakeADifferencetour

Hi

Well this week is a another busy week on my 'You Can Make A Difference Tour '  (186 talks across the UK )

Seven days seventeen talks across seven towns and cities 

I have 14 talks in Partnership with NHS Highland starting with 3 talks Fort William Monday, 4 talks Wick Tuesday, 4 talks Inverness Wednesday and last but not least Oban for 3 talks 

I then head from Oban to Dunblane late Thursday evening to speak at the HFMA Annual conference first thing Friday morning then later that day I will be speaking in Galsgow at the Citizens Advice Direct AGM

Next day I head off to Sunderland to speak at a the City Hosptial Sunderland End of Life Care Conference 

A busy but very exciting 7 days on my tour .A massive thank you to all of the above for the invites ,opportunities and support to get there 

I am so very much looking forward to meeting everyone listening,learning ,speaking meeting new and old friends along the way and I hope adding more personal pledges to our pledge wall

You can read the 2360 pledges made to date here 

Tommy 

  

Guest Post - A week in the life of an Allied Health Professions Dementia Consultant Jenny Reid

Todays guest blog post is from the great Jenny Reid, Allied Health Professions (AHP) Dementia Consultant working in NHS Lothian.  Thank you so much Jenny for taking the time to write such an informative post.  #makingadifference.

My name is Jenny Reid and I am an Allied Health Professions (AHP) Dementia Consultant working in NHS Lothian. There are four such posts in Scotland each with a different focus but working together as a team. The Allied Health Professions are a group of 10 different professions including:

• Arts therapists (including art, music and drama)
• Dietitians
• Occupational Therapists
• Orthoptists
• Paramedics
• Podiatrists
• Prosthetists and Orthotists
• Radiographers (diagnostic and therapeutic)
• Speech and language therapists

I was delighted to be asked by Tommy to share my role through a guest blog on Dementia Carer Voices. One of the great things about my role is the variety, so in order to give you a flavour of some of the work I’m involved in I thought I would describe a week in the life of an AHP Dementia Consultant.

On Monday I was part of a team hosting a national event for AHPs involved in delivering post diagnostic support to people living with dementia, their families and carers.  The Connecting People, Connecting Support event was a one day conversation celebrating the best in supported self-management for people with dementia and co-creating the future direction.  The audience included Alzheimer Scotland Link Workers and Allied Health Professionals from around Scotland.  During the event we launched a new publication sharing good practice from around Scotland.  The Allied Health Professionals delivering Post-Diagnostic Support: Living Well with Dementia document is available online at:

http://www.knowledge.scot.nhs.uk/media/CLT/ResourceUploads/4052046/02295%20AHP%20report%20on%20post-diagnostic%20support.pdf

The day was action packed with a range of speakers including Jacqui Lunday-Johnston (the Chief Health Professionals Officer in Scottish Government), Dr Claire Craig (Sheffield Hallam University), Amy Dalrymple (Alzheimer Scotland) and members of the Scottish Dementia Working Group.  In between the presentations Fiona McNeill and her associates hosted the conversation based on a series of powerful questions.  There is a webcast of the event for anyone who would like to see the day: http://www.knowledge.scot.nhs.uk/dementia/communities-of-practice/national-ahps-best-practice-in-dementia-network/early-intervention-and-supported-self-management.aspx

Tuesday included a meeting with colleagues from the occupational therapy team at Queen Margaret University and my colleague Elaine Hunter (AHP Consultant in Alzheimer Scotland).  We are working together to design opportunities for AHP students to learn the knowledge and skills they require to work effectively with people living with dementia, their families and carers.  This has included practice placements in Alzheimer Scotland services, AHP interns, an Alzheimer Scotland AHP PhD studentship and creating both undergraduate and masters level modules focusing on dementia for AHPs.

Wednesday was focused on meeting with around 30 AHPs working in Lothian across NHS services as well as three of the local authorities.  I am working with my AHP Practice Education Lead colleague to train AHPs in Lothian to a minimum of the Skilled Level in the Promoting Excellence framework.  There are around 1900 AHPs in Lothian so we are adopting a “train the trainer” model to allow us to train as many staff as possible.  This is the first cohort of staff who have signed up to be trainers and they are a really motivated and enthusiastic group of staff who will have trained around 250 staff by next summer and 500 by the end of next year.

On Thursday and Friday I had time to catch up with email and telephone calls and to do some much need preparation for various events and training sessions.  My job involves meeting with people from diverse services and the upcoming sessions which I spent time preparing for included Fire and Rescue Service staff involved in providing home fire safety visits and falls champions from NHS, Local authority, care home and leisure services.

I also spent time working on two poster presentations for the Alzheimer Europe Conference (20-22^nd October in Glasgow), one on a national project to pilot an occupational therapy intervention in 6 different health boards in Scotland.  The Tailored Activity Programme (TAP) intervention aims to help carers to support the person with dementia to continue to engage in meaningful and enjoyable activities using their remaining abilities and compensating for the difficulties caused by their dementia.  This intervention has been shown to improve quality of life, reduce signs of stress and distress and reduce time carers spend in caring tasks.  If you would like any more information on the TAP project please go to http://www.knowledge.scot.nhs.uk/dementia/communities-of-practice/national-ahps-best-practice-in-dementia-network/tailored-activity-programme.aspx

This is just a flavour of some of my work. If you would like more information on my role or on the work of the other AHP Dementia Consultants you can find lots o information including our update reports and the Dementia AHPproaches newsletter which I produce quarterly on our community of practice http://www.knowledge.scot.nhs.uk/dementia/communities-of-practice/national-ahps-best-practice-in-dementia-network.aspx .  We are all active on twitter too so check out

@JennyAHPDem

@elaineahpmh

@christineahp

@AHPRunRideTeddy

There is also a weekly blog sharing some of the AHP Dementia work (http://letstalkaboutdementia.wordpress.com/) for new posts every Thursday morning.

 

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With great thanks to Sandra Boldison Heads of Adult Services Support Team Families & Wellbeing Directorate Warrington Borough Council for the kind invite to give two talks to staff at 

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