Berkshire Healthcare Nhs Foundation Trust

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Happy Breastfeeding Celebration Week! Breastfeeding is a skill that takes time to get the hang of – for helpful tips check out Start4Life: http://socsi.in/aeAbu #CelebrateBreastfeeding

The Reading Health Visiting service ran the first Saturday health review clinic on 8th June. The nursery nurses rolled out a new model of delivering the health review in a group setting, allowing parents to become more involved.
Feedback from parents was very positive and included: "Both parents preferred the new model reporting, they felt the old model sitting at desks made the parents feel like they were being judged, they enjoyed sitting together and the child having the opportunity to socialise with other children during the appointment. They liked the option of a Saturday clinic as this enabled both parents to attend."
Our team completed a total of 7 health reviews. The picture shows the team that volunteered to work. We are looking forward to our next Saturday clinic on 6th July.

Talking Therapies are busy raising money to support a team member, who unfortunately following complications at the birth of her second child, had to have both of her legs amputated.
Priya Kalyanker works as a CBT Therapist in Slough for Talking Therapies and gave birth to her second child, Ana, in March this year. Priya is making remarkable progress and is now home and doing well, but there is a long road ahead to recovery.
Priya’s family have set up a GoFundMe page to help support the cost of alterations that are needed in the house, and Talking Therapies colleagues have already raised over £300 with a cake sale at Fitzwilliam House. They are now planning to run the Park Run on Saturday 22nd June in Bracknell, if you would like to sponsor the team, please visit: http://socsi.in/SeT4G.

Happy #PrideMonth - we are excited to be at Reading Pride Celebration on the 31st August! #LoveUnites Here's some photos from last year! 📷 🌈

Are you working with a carer who is supporting a loved one affected by psychosis?
During #CarersWeek, we would like to actively promote a study available to people who provide caring support for a loved one with psychosis. The study aims to find out if an online resource, COPe-support, works to improve carers’ wellbeing and how well they cope with caring. We are inviting all carers supporting a loved one affected by psychosis to join our study. Carers can be parents, partner...s, siblings, other relatives or close friends.
The study is running in the Trust until February 2020, and carers would be joining the October cohort. If you’d like to find out more, please visit: http://socsi.in/xhZFc or contact research@berkshire.nhs.uk
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Yesterday members of our research and development team were at Broad Street Mall promoting research as part of #CarersWeek. Learn more about research and development and how you can get involved online: http://socsi.in/t8awG

Upcoming events for #CarersWeek: ⭐ Thursday - 10.30 to 2.30pm The Sue Ryder Hospice is hosting afternoon tea, along with a ukulele musical performance and complementary therapy. Location: The Sue Ryder Hospice Wokingham Hospital Barkham Road, Wokingham, RG41 2RE
... ⭐ Friday 14 June - 11am to 2.30pm A presentation by Asset Harbour Financial advisor will provide information on “Making of a Will, Power of attorney and Financial Advice” as well as offering information stands for Wokingham-based unpaid carers. Location: The Oakwood Centre, Headley Road, Woodley, RG5 4JZ
More events and information can be found here:
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Come and meet Talkback Nclude at Market Place Broad Street, Reading.
As part of Carers Week, we are offering a chance for you find out more about what we do and how we can help you!
Find out more here: https://bit.ly/2KI66E4

It’s important for you and your family to get vaccinated so you can help keep yourselves and your community healthy. The NHS has vaccination programmes for different ages, as seen below. Boys will also be brought into the HPV programme for the 2019/20 academic year. For more information visit: http://socsi.in/VJ26B

As part of #CarersWeek, a series of events have been organised by the Berkshire Carers Hub, with support from a variety of partners and voluntary sector organisations and charities.
People living in Reading who provide unpaid care for a friend, relative or neighbour can look forward to a number of free advice, support and wellbeing events from 10 June to 14 June to mark National Carers' Week 2019. For more information, visit: http://socsi.in/nSIz8

This week is #CarersWeek - this is an annual campaign that aims to raise awareness of caring, highlight the challenges carers face and recognise the contribution they make to families and communities throughout the UK.
East Berkshire and Berkshire West Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), together with Signal for Bracknell Forest Carers, have launched a Berkshire wide phone line on 0800 1337851, offering support & information, for those who maybe looking after someone. Many people who carry out caring responsibilities do not recognise themselves as carers, but may benefit from some support and could be unaware of the help available to them. For more information click here: http://socsi.in/GGuRz

Tony volunteers once a week at the East Berkshire Specialist Mobility Service and Janet, Madge and Marie volunteer at Wokingham Community Hospital. Thank you to our wonderful volunteers! #VolunteersWeek ⭐

This week is #DietitiansWeek - we've been tweeting all week about #WhatDietitiansDo. You can find us on twitter @ BHFT. The dietitians at Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust have ‘Cake Thursday’. Check out these delicious cakes from Thursday. #DietitiansWeek 🍰

Thank you to the McAfee Volunteers! On Thursday 6th June volunteers from McAfee came to Upton Hospital to work in the gardens to celebrate #VolunteersWeek. They did a fantastic job and were joined by Berkshire Healthcare Chief Executive Officer, Julian Emms, to thank them for their hard work and support.

Today is #WhatMattersToYou day. The aims of today are to encourage and support more meaningful conversations between people who provide health and social care and the people, families and carers who receive health and social care. More information can be found here: http://socsi.in/IF6mP 🗣️

*Important* Our voicemail in East Berkshire Mobility service (St Marks Hospital) has been down since last week. Any voicemails that are left cannot be listened to. We ask all patients calling in to not leave messages for the time being and to call the number again if not answered the first time so a member of the team can help you.