2832 People Have Now Made A Personal Pledge To Make A Difference

                                          

Hi,

 I have had the great privilege to meet so many amazing, caring, inspiring people IN PERSON on my tour across the country on twitter via our Dementia Carer voices Blog and my own TommyOnTour blog.

I have been overwhelmed by the kindness of people and have had many emotional journeys home late at night from talks thinking back to all that happened each day; the people I have met,the pledges that have been made , the stories I have heard and the great initiatives so many people have shared.

There are far too many people to mention in person - this blog piece might never end if I tried!

For me caring is truly all about people and relationships - it’s always people who make the biggest difference of all. I have met so many amazing people and witnessed the greatest relationships of care over the last year.

Thank you for bringing a smile to my heart over the last 12 months, thank you for making such a difference to my life BUT more importantly thank you for the amazing pledges to make a difference for others. 

Thank you from my heart and  from my amazing team mates Irene, Laura and Sarah.

You can view our NEW PLEDGE  FILM launched for 2014 with the staff of NHSAAA, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon CEO NHS Scotland Paul Gray and Chief Nursing Officer Fiona McQueen    here. 

                                                                                                          You Can Make A Difference            

                              The Amazing People and 2832 Pledges (and Counting )

January2015 

05.01.15 Ipswich Hospital make their pledges

09.01.15 First pledges of the week 2015

January 2014 

We began the campaign by asking “What does caring mean to you?”

20.01.2014 Letters, Life and Love Stories

February

06.02.14 University of Abertay

13.02.14 University of Edinburgh

13.02.14 Glasgow Kelvin College

13.02.14 Collection of online pledges

13.02.14 Collection of online pledges(2)

13.02.14 Abertay University

17.02.14 Royal College of Nursing Scotland – Lothian Branch

19.02.14 NHS Fife

20.02.14 University of Edinburgh – MSc Integrated Service Improvement Students

21.02.14 Collection of online pledges

26.02.14 NHS Grampian – Day 1 

27.02.14 NHS Grampian – Day 2

28.02.14 NHS Grampian – Day 3

28.02.14 ‘Stop, Start, Continue’ Feedback from Dementia Carer Voices visit to NHS Grampian

28.02.14 Collection of online pledges

March

07.03.14 Queen Margaret University

19.03.14 Glasgow Caledonian University

28.03.14 Collection of online pledges

28.03.14 ALLIANCE Link Worker Programme Team

April

04.04.14 James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough

(08 -10).04.14 NHS Dumfries & Galloway 

11.04.14 Glasgow City Council

11.04.14 2nd Year Mental Health Students @GCU

25.04.14 Online pledges for April 2014

May

01.05.14 Sunshine House – Wigan

14.05.14 Scottish Practice Nurse Association Conference 

20.05.14 University of Abertay – 3rd Year Nursing Students

27/28.05.14 Person-Centred Health & Care Collaborative Learning Session 4 at the SECC

June

3/4.06.14 NHS Conference

06.06.14 Alzheimer Scotland Conference

09.06.14 Equal Partners in Care

18.06.14  Carers Week 2014 pledges

19.06.14 Care Inspectorate Pledges

19.06.14  Birmingham tour pledges

19.06.14 Salford University Pledges

26.06.14 Community Nursing – School of Nurses NHSGG&C

27.06.14 BCDA Birmingham

NHSAAA The People The Pledges The tour - 13 talks July - August 

http://tommy-on-tour-2011.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/nhsaaa-people-pledges-films-kindness.html

                                                    

July

11.07.14 NHS Ayrshire and Arran

15.07.14 Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospital

31.07.14 Warrington and Halton Hospital

July Online pledges

August

07.08.14  Occupational Therapy Team in South Ayrshire

19.08.14 ALISS Programme Team @ALLIANCE

26.08.14 Care Staff at North Ayrshire Council

29.08.14  Crossreach Dementia Ambassador Awards

September

01.09.14  Teesside University

09.09.14 Belford Hospital 

10.09.14 Dementia Friends/We can make a difference session

16.09.14 Glasgow University Staff Development Day

17.09.14 Warwick University

18.09.14 Dementia Champions Forum Burton Hospital

19.09.14 University of the West of Scotland – Ayr Campus

30.09.14 Thank you for your pledges!

October

13.10.14 More Pledges

7-9.10.14  Parliament Exhibition, MSP Pledges

15.10.14 University of Abertay 

20.10.14 Birmingham City Hospital

20.10.14 Heartlands Hospital Birmingham

22.10.14 Julie Sheen Guest post with pledges from The University of Chester 

23.10.14 Dundee University

24.10.14 Warrington Social Work (2 talks)

November

03.11.14 Online pledges

07.11.14 Burton Hospital

13.11.14  Pledges of the week

17.11.14 University of Glasgow – School of Nursing

21.11.14 Lister Hospital –  Nursing Students

24.11.14 The Retreat York

December 

Pledges of the week 

02.12.14 NHSGGC Person-Centred Health and Care Collaborative Learn and Share Local Event

02.12.14 Promoting Excellence: Shifting the Paradigm in Dementia Care and Support – Driving Innovation in Education

16.12.14 Pledges of the week – Featuring @ALLIANCEScot @CarersTrust @SunderlandRoyal

15/16.12.14 Norfolk and Suffolk

18.12.14 Care Inspectorate Support You Can Make a Difference 

  Dementia Carer Voices pledge background 

Dementia Carer Voices has now gathered 2832   pledges as part of the “You Can Make a Difference” campaign. The campaign encourages people to listen to the experiences of people who have cared for a loved one with dementia and to think how they can make a positive difference in people’s lives. The team are delighted to have gotten such a strong response, and would like to take this opportunity to reflect on our journey up until now and how we have gotten to this point.

A fundamental aspect of the campaign has been about involvement. Throughout the lk tour, we have engaged with many thousand health and social care professionals, students, MSPs and members of the public, and have noticed a distinct increase in the number of pledges we have received when people are encouraged and supported to do so by colleagues and friends. We would therefore like to ask you to share this campaign, to encourage people you know to get involved and make a pledge to make a difference in the lives of people who have dementia, their families and carers. Through our own dedicated blog site, twitter account and website, the campaign is easily shared, and links people to a range of information.

Pledges can be submitted via email, twitter or on the blog site, and are also collected at every talk. We would very much appreciate it if you would promote this campaign; the talks and our films and encourage people to reflect on what they can do and how they can make a difference

                                              

Thanks for reading my blog, You can now view my 8 short films here!