Elysium Healthcare

The Mayor and Mayoress of Wellington came to visit Wellesley Hospital on 23rd August following Wellesley Hospital’s ‘GOOD’ result from their CQC report.
They celebrated with coffee and cake in the Patient Café where staff and patients attended.
The morning was very successful and a great opportunity for the Mayor to see how Wellesley have progressed and talk about their exciting future plans.

Field House is a specialist rehabilitation service for women with a history of trauma and/or attachment disorders. The service focuses on psychological input and provides specialist, evidence-based interventions including Trauma focussed Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Compassion Focused Therapy.
The majority of patients at Field House have a diagnosed Personality Disorder, however, the model is very different to services that provide Dialectical Behavioural Therapy as thei...r primary intervention.
Read more about our unique model that combines Positive Behavioural Support with Compassion Focussed Therapy:
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Our second Service User Conference is taking place on 20th September! #SUConf18
The theme for this year's Conference is ‘Moving Forward; Building Resilience and Overcoming Adversity’.
We're already receiving some fantastic artwork entries from our service users to display and share at the event, which share their thoughts and feelings about recovery and moving forward in their care.
... Take a look at the highlights from last year's conference here:
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During a tonic clonic epileptic seizure, the body jerks and shakes as muscles relax and tighten rhythmically. Breathing may be affected and become difficult or sound noisy, skin may change colour and become very pale or bluish.
After the seizure the person affected may feel tired, confused, have a headache or want to sleep.
This video by Epilepsy Society shows what it feels like to experience a tonic clonic seizure:

When we are depressed we tend to avoid things; we become reluctant to do regular day to day activities & anything new appears daunting.
It may be beneficial to push yourself to do something different or new. Read the rest of our 10 tips for depression:

Pathnav is our unique software application written to create a visual journey of care. It promotes collaboration between clinicians and Service Users and enables the Service User to be a true partner in their care.
Read what our Service Users had to say about it here: http://bit.ly/2MvrQo8

St Neots Hospital are pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Caroline Knight Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist to their Neurological Rehabilitation service.
Caroline brings extensive experience of treating people with neurological conditions including Acquired Brain Injury, Dementia and Huntington’s Disease.
Her career started in neurobehavioural rehabilitation, she has held Lead Psychologist posts with St Andrews, Partnerships in Care and led the Brain Injury service ...at Burton Park, acting as Clinical Director for Brain Injury services for the Priory Group. Caroline also holds the post of Head of Psychology with The Oakleaf Group.
Dr Knight has published research on the understanding and treatment of challenging behaviours and developed assessment measures widely used in neurorehabilitation – Overt Aggression Scale: Modified for Neurorehabilitation, St Andrew’s Sexual Behaviour Assessment and versions of the Multiple Errands Test. She is recognised nationally and internationally for her work and has been the recipient of the Association of Psychological Therapies Award for Excellence in Risk Assessment and Management. She has received the RAID award Excellence in Working with Challenging Behaviour twice and is an Honorary Lecturer for the University of Leicester.
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Potters Bar Clinic Transitional service for young women with Personality Disorders offers a continuum to the pathway from CAMHS to improve the transition period through services to independence.
Our 12 bedded unit offers a transitional service for specialist care that is specifically designed to support young women aged 18 to 25 who have a diagnosis of an emerging or personality disorder.
The focus of the service is to enable the young women to work on ways to decrease harmfu...l behaviours and replace them with effective strategies to enhance their lives and help them reach their personal life goals.
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Expecting your exam results tomorrow?
Waiting for exam results can be extremely stressful and can cause anxious thoughts and feelings as well as panic and fear about the future.
Take a look at our tips for dealing with #examresults #anxiety

There's still time to enter the United Kingdom Acquired Brain Injury Forum short film award for films that narrate the impact of an acquired #braininjury!
UKABIF are encouraging everyone that has an interest, or experience, in Acquired Brain Injury to enter for a chance to win one of 4 £250 prizes.
The competition is open for entries until 28th September. See more details here: http://bit.ly/2nr6FoY

We are delighted to welcome Shona Anderson RGN, who joins us as our newly appointed Director of Nursing for Elysium Neurological Services and will be based at The Bridge.
Shona brings with her over 20 years of nursing expertise across both private and NHS sectors, including operational and safeguarding expertise. She has specialist, critical and complex care experience in community and inpatient settings, along with a broad understanding of the continuing care agenda and the importance for needs led assessments.
Shona’s appointment is our commitment to ensuring those we support are at the heart of everything we do.

Our new Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) preparatory service in Milton Keynes is now open!
Isla House provides therapeutic preparatory work for women with a diagnosis of Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder (EUPD) who are not are not yet ready to engage with the intensive DBT programme. The service enables patients who may be ambivalent about committing to a twelve month programme to immerse themselves in the DBT culture, develop DBT skills, work on motivation and ...commitment levels and start to build therapeutic relationships with the multidisciplinary team.
Patients can move from Isla House to adjacent Hope House to complete the full DBT programme. Hope House provides the full DBT programme as described by Marsha Linehan and has achieved excellent outcomes for patients in terms of self-harm reduction, incident reduction, rescinded sections and successful discharges into the community.
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We are delighted to announce that we will be increasing the number of apartments at Ballington House in early 2019.
Ballington House is a specialist rehabilitation service for women with a Mental Illness, Personality Disorder and/or complex needs. The service provides care and treatment in a unique environment consisting of single and two-person, self-contained apartments. The apartments mirror a domestic living situation and offer a safe, structured and private environment t...o help reinforce socials boundaries. The environment facilitates recovery and helps patients prepare for community living.
The service focuses on psychological input and provides specialist, evidence-based interventions including Trauma focussed Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT).
The service was visited by CQC earlier this year and the inspectors commented on the vigilant approach to risk assessment and monitoring to ensure patient safety. Patients reported that staff were ‘extremely caring’ and they complimented the care and the environment. Patients found that the design and layout of the hospital replicated life in the community and helped prepare them for discharge. Patients said that staff encouraged independence and positive risk-taking. CQC reported that discharge planning commenced on admission and patients had clear goals of what they needed to achieve during their rehabilitation.
Hospital Director, Mandy Leadbetter, said “Ballington House has been rated as ‘Outstanding’ by the CQC recently so we are thrilled to be able to expand the service. The apartment model promotes independence and encourages patients to take care of their own space, skills which will stand patients in good stead for community living. We have a skilled and stable staff team here and we are all really looking forward to welcoming patients to the new apartments.”
Building work is due to commence in September 2018 – watch this space!
For more information about Ballington House or other Elysium services please contact Caroline Carnell on 07795 651 683 or email caroline.carnell@elysiumhealthcare.c o.uk
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We are very pleased to announce that Stanley House in Herefordshire has been reaccredited as a Headway - the brain injury association approved provider for brain injury care.
Learn more about Stanley House here: http://bit.ly/2vDXW6P

Potters Bar Clinic would like to welcome Ginette Fraher as Hospital Director. She brings a wealth of knowledge and experience within CAMHS, transitional services and adult mental health. Ginette will support the team to further develop the services at Potters Bar to meet the needs of the young people and adults requiring treatment for mental ill health.
Ginette’s ethos is to put the patient at the heart of everything we do to enable them to make informed choices and meet the...ir personal goals.
Potters Bar Clinic provides CAMHS Tier 4 Low Secure services for young people aged 13 – 18, transitional services for young women aged 18 -25 with Personality Disorders and Acute Mental Health services.
If you would like to come and meet Ginette or know more about the services provided at Potters Bar Clinic, please call 01707 858585 or email pottersbar@elysiumhealthcare.co.uk