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Public Social Partnership events
Edinburgh Wellbeing public social partnership (psp)
“Talk, Share, Plan, Repeat” Coproduction Events
Public Social Partnerships (PSPs) are about people working together to design what services and supports are needed to meet the need of people who have mental ill health, or mental health difficulties, and then building partnerships to deliver the services and supports. There will be two city wide events, the first to capture the main themes and the second to capture work across the city and to begin to make these links. The locality events will be focused more around understanding the needs of that particular community, opening up local dialogue, and building relationships for future partnership working.
To registers for one/or more events or general enquiries please email: EdinburghPSP@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk
- Locality – North West: 1st Feb, 11 – 2:30, Muirhouse Library
- City Wide: 8th Feb, 11 – 2:30, tbc
- Locality – North West: 22nd Feb, 11 – 2:30, Muirhouse Library
Royal Ed campus redevelopment rolls on
The project to redevelop the Royal Edinburgh Hospital campus has taken another major step forward with the keys of the £48 million first phase being exchanged in time for Christmas.
Preparations are now underway to start a rolling programme of service relocations to the new facilities and will see staff moving into their new surroundings throughout the first half of 2017.
New Year, new Dad?
Antenatal classes course for dads
Local MSP welcomes record high NHS staff levels
Staffing in Scotland’s NHS has increased by over 1,000 in the last year, taking workforce levels to a new record high. Continue reading Local MSP welcomes record high NHS staff levels
First sod cut at North West Partnership Centre
A sod cutting ceremony was carried out last week to officially mark the start of construction work on the first of three health and social care centres in Edinburgh and West Lothian. Maureen Watt, Minister for Mental Health, officially cut the ground on the North West Edinburgh Partnership Centre in Muirhouse on 6 July. Continue reading First sod cut at North West Partnership Centre
Celebrating Lothian’s health heroes
LOCAL healthcare workers have been honoured at a ceremony celebrating the best of the best of NHS Lothian staff. The annual ‘Celebrating Success Awards’ praised the hard-working NHS Lothian employees who give their heart and soul to deliver outstanding care to patients.
24 hour paediatric services to stay at St John’s?
Two site option recommended
An expert review has concluded that inpatient children’s services should be retained on two sites in Lothian – St John’s Hospital (SJH) and the Royal Hospital for Sick Children (RHSC). Continue reading 24 hour paediatric services to stay at St John’s?
Elderly hospital care: NHS Lothian must do better
Inspectors step in to respond to Ferryfield patient buzzers
Health Inspectors were twice forced to step in to answer patients’ alarm buzzers while conducting a recent survey into complex clinical care in Edinburgh. It’s little surprise, then, that their report makes a number of recommendations for service improvement. Continue reading Elderly hospital care: NHS Lothian must do better
Emma chooses life to become LEAP’s 500th graduate
A mother-of-two has achieved a major milestone after becoming the 500th graduate of a pioneering drug and alcohol detox recovery programme. Emma Hogg has battled her addiction to alcohol to successfully complete the Lothian and Edinburgh Abstinence Programme (LEAP).
Continue reading Emma chooses life to become LEAP’s 500th graduate