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Winter 2014
Your future is our future - see page 3
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CPFT
news
Winter 2014
CPFT News is produced by Cambridgeshire
and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
(CPFT).
We are a designated Cambridge University
Teaching Trust and provide mental health
and learning disability services to the
755,000 residents of Cambridgeshire and
Peterborough and also children’s
community services in Peterborough. CPFT
is also a member of Cambridge University
Health Partners (CUHP), one of only five
Academic Health Science Centres in
England.
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Message from the
Chief Executive
W
elcome to our winter issue of
CPFT News.
The past few months have been both
hectic, but exciting for CPFT.
As you may well have heard in the news, our joint bid with
Addenbrooke’s for the older people’s and adults healthcare services
contract was successful. This is great news as it means these services
stay in the NHS and we can look forward to forging some great
partnerships with other NHS providers, social care and third sector
organisations to ensure patients in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
receive first-class, efficient integrated services.
This contract will be a huge challenge but we are confident it will work.
We have already started talking to some of the NHS staff who will be
transferring over to CPFT in April and these sessions have been going
well. We havre superb staff here and this will be enhanced by the arrival
of 1300 new faces, but everyone is up for this challenge and we relish
the chance to provide joined-up care for local people.
I was delighted to be invited to a third sector partners’ event in
Godmanchester in November. This was organised by CPFT and we had a
wide range of representatives from voluntary organisations and charities
attend the day-long event. Partnership working is extremely important
to us, and this will become even more apparent as we begin to deliver
the new integrated care contract mentioned above.
It was encouraging that those who attended this event came out with
positive feedback about their commitment to working with us to help
deliver health and care services for the county’s population. We look
forward to working even closer with them.
The end of the year is drawing closer. This year has been tough particularly for our staff in our adult community services, which faces
ever-increasing pressures. I don’t believe 2015 will be any easier - we
will be forced to make more cost savings and this will place more
pressure on our teams as they deal with those who need our help. We
know the number of people who require our services is only going to
increase in the future, but the current situation, where funding for
general hospital services continues to rise but funding for mental health
and some children’s community services is being reduced, remains
unfair.
I know, however, that our staff - despite being under enormous
strain - will continue to put patients and service-users at the very heart
of everything they do, and continue to help those who need it most.
And I will most certainly be thinking about those staff who will be
working on Christmas Day and Boxing Day in our services, making the
event as enjoyable as possible for those people who are in our wards
over the holiday period.
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From all at CPFT, we hope you have a fantastic Christmas and we wish
you all the very best for the new year.
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Aidan Thomas
Chief Executive
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CPFT partnership to
provide integrated care
I
t has been announced that CPFT and
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS
Foundation Trust (CUH) are preferred
bidders for Cambridgeshire and
Peterborough Clinical Commissioning
Group’s (CCG) tendering process for
older people’s healthcare and adult
community services.
services, providing more joined-up care
for patients.
CPFT forms part of the Uniting Care
Partnership (UCP) with CUH and was
the only NHS-led partnership left in the
bidding process at the final stage.
•
In a statement, UCP said: “We are
delighted that our NHS-led consortium,
UnitingCare Partnership, has been
appointed preferred bidder for the
provision of older people’s healthcare
and adult community services. We look
forward to delivering the vital
improvements to care for older people.”
•
A contract has now been signed and
UCP is starting to mobilise the staff
ready for the anticipated start date of
1 April 2015.
•
UCP was selected after a 15-month
service design and procurement process
to find a lead provider of older people’s
healthcare and adult community
services, which is able to integrate
It will be responsible for ensuring care is
much better co-ordinated. It will directly
provide adult community health services
and hold the budget for the following
services:
•
Urgent care for adults aged over 65
including inpatients as well as A&E
services
Mental health services for people
aged over 65
Adult (all people over 18)
community health services - for
example, district nursing,
rehabilitation and therapy after
injury or illness, speech and
language therapy, care for patients
with complex wounds, support for
people with respiratory disease or
diabetes
Other health services that support
the care of people aged over 65.
As a direct provider of adult (people
over 18) community health services,
UCP will employ staff who currently
provide these services. Meetings have
already started with those staff affected
and these have given staff the chance to
ask questions about the new contract.
Lucille van Geest ward relocates
CPFT’s Lucille van Geest ward, which
was situated on the old Peterborough
District Hospital site in Thorpe Road, has
relocated to The Cavell Centre.
The short-stay ward had to move from
the rear of the former hospital site
following the sale of the land. In just
three months, a team of staff planned
and delivered the project to relocate to
The Cavell Centre.
Nine patients and more than 20 staff
have now moved in to the new ward
which will be called Oak 4 (LVG). It
means all acute wards in the
Peterborough 3-3-3 system are now
housed at The Cavell Centre. As
part of the project, Maple 2 has
been reconfigured.
Bob Thomson, General Manager of the
Trust's Adult Services Directorate, has
praised the "remarkable effort" of the
staff involved.
"This is the culmination of a long-held
ambition to have all the wards at The
Cavell,” he said. “This has been a
remarkable effort, led by two modern
matrons and three ward managers, and
the estate support from Kate Bergner
has been outstanding.
"Patients are now in a much better
environment with more space and up to
date facilities, and overall their care will
be much more effective.”
Three new faces on
Trust Board
CPFT has moved to strengthen its
board with the appointment of a
new finance director and three
new Non-Executive Directors.
Scott Haldane is joining CPFT as
new finance director in
December. Scott was formerly
Director of Finance at
Cambridgeshire Community
Services NHS Trust and has more
than 20 years’ service in the NHS.
Simon Burrows, Diana Forsyth and
Jo Lucas have been formally been
appointed Non-Executive
Directors.
Simon, from Whittlesey, was most
recently Group Director at TNS
(UK) the world's largest market,
social and political research
business. Currently operating as
an independent management
onsultant, he also serves as a
trustee on the board of several
charities.
Diana, who lives in Cambridge, is
a management consultant
specialising in organisational
development and change. She is
currently a non-executive director
of Henshaw’s Society for Blind
People, and previously served as a
non-executive director of
Cambridgeshire Community
Services NHS Trust and NHS
Central Eastern Region
Commissioning Support Unit.
Jo, from Chesterton, has spent
nearly 40 years in mental health
and began her career as a
nursing assistant in Fulbourn. She
is a psychotherapist in Cambridge
and works with a number of
mental health organisations.
Elizabeth Mitchell, Lead
Governor of CPFT, said:
“Governors welcome the new
non-executive directors and the
strong business and public sector
experience they bring with them.
Especially important for Governors
is the commitment they all gave
to engage with service users and
carers so their experiences can
help shape services.”
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Fantastic response to Mind
Your Body fund-raiser
A
round 170 people donned
running shoes and walking
boots to take part in CPFT’s first
charity walk at Grafham Water in
October.
Several thousand pounds was raised
from the event which consisted of a
3km, 5km or 10km walk or run. All
the proceeds will be going to the Croft
Child and Family Unit at Fulbourn and
CPFT’s Recovery College East.
Andrea Grosbois, communications
manager at CPFT, said the turnout
exceeded all expectations.
“This was the first event we have
organised for the CPFT charities and it
was a great to have more than 170
people turning up was amazing. There
was a really positive atmosphere. We
had asked everyone to turn up in
yellow and orange to bring some
sunshine to an autumn day. One man
who took part carried his son on his
shoulders for the whole 10km, which
was impressive.”
The event had also been organised to
coincide with World Mental Health
Day. “Each year, one in four of us will
experience a mental health challenge.
We really wanted this event to get
people talking to break down some of
the stigma still surrounding mental
health,” Andrea added.
“On the day, you didn’t know who
were staff, who were service users and
who were members of the public everyone supported each other and
shared their experiences, which was
what the day was about.”
The Croft Child and Family Unit is an
inpatient ward for children and their
families and supports children who are
experiencing challenges such as
depression, anxiety, OCD and eating
disorders. Recovery College East is an
educational facility offering free
courses for people in using CPFT
services to help them into employment
and develop useful life skills.
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Award-winning
CPFT staff
We’ve had a host of staff
recognised in local and
national awards.
Our older adult psychiatry
team, which is based at
Addenbrooke’s, has won the
team award in the Frances
Jaye Care and Compassion
Awards. The team won the
award for delivering care
with sensitivity and
kindness.
Elena Baker-Glenn, a
member of our Older
People's team at Fulbourn,
has been named trainee/
student leader of the year in
the Health Education East of
England awards.
Dr Dickon Bevington,
consultant with CASUS, has
been named one of the
Health Service Journal's 50
top innovators. The list
recognises people whose
ideas and leadership have
changed ways of working,
those whose work has
fostered and led to more
innovation, and people who
have given inspiration to
others.
CPFT’s Communications Team
has won the “Best Use of
Digital Media” award and
was also runner up in the
“Best Creative Campaign” in
the Athene Communications
Peterborough PR and Media
Awards. These awards were
for the “Who is Robert”
campaign, the patient in
Peterborough who suffered
severe amnesia.
And Rowena Harvey
(pictured), our Professional
Lead for
health visiting
and school
nursing at
CPFT, has
been made a
Fellow of the
Institute of Health Visiting
(FiHV).
Rudolf scoops top
national psychiatry award
A
clinician at CPFT has won a top
honour.
Dr Rudolf Cardinal was named Higher
Psychiatric Trainee of the Year at the
Royal College of Psychiatrists Awards
2014.
The annual awards mark the highest level
of achievement within psychiatry, and are
designed to recognise and reward
excellence in mental health.
Dr Cardinal said: “I'm delighted and
honoured to have received this award,
and it was wonderful to hear about the
many achievements of teams and
individuals celebrated by the College in
its annual awards.
“I'm very grateful to all those who have
trained me over the years, and to my
colleagues, Dr Mai Wong and Dr Cathy
Walsh, for nominating me.
“Working in psychiatry we have the
opportunity to meet people at some of
the most difficult times in their lives, and
to think about why and what could be
done to help, which is a particular
privilege.”
Dr Cardinal is an honorary specialist
registrar working on acute wards
Mulberry 2 and Mulberry 3 at Fulbourn
Hospital, Cambridge. He is also a clinical
lecturer in psychiatry and a Wellcome
Trust Fellow at the Department of
Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge.
At the ceremony in London on Thursday,
6 November, Dr Cardinal was shortlisted
alongside three other doctors in the
Higher Psychiatric Trainee of the Year
category. He was given his award by
Rudolf receives his award from
Prof Jane Dacre, President of the RCP
Professor Jane Dacre, president of the
Royal College of Physicians.
Judges were impressed by Dr Cardinal’s
work to develop an anonymised clinical
database which allows consenting
patients to take part in clinical research
to further develop understanding of
mental health.
They also admired the words of his
colleagues when they nominated him,
saying: “His skill, kindness, and hard
work are valued greatly by his patients
and colleagues. He is the clinician we
would all like to be in charge of our care,
the colleague that helps us return for
another hectic day, and an inspirational
ambassador for psychiatry.”
It is the second prestigious award given
to a CPFT clinician in two years. In 2013,
Dr Mai Wong, an associate specialist in
the Trust’s liaison psychiatry service, was
named Speciality Doctor/Associate
Specialist of the Year.
Agreement signed to tackle mental health issues
Senior leaders from health, the police,
local authorities and voluntary
organisations signed a local declaration
in November setting out how they
support people experiencing a mental
health crisis. The Cambridgeshire and
Peterborough’s Mental Health Crisis
Care Concordat Declaration sets out
how organisations will work better
together to make sure people get the
help they need when they are having a
mental health crisis.
Following the agreement, the next step
is to formulate a detailed shared plan
of action to improve the care and
support of people in mental health
crisis in the county.
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Help us improve services,
CPFT tells voluntary groups
Hearing Voices
conference
Preparations are underway
for the “Hearing Voices
Network Approach: Fresh
Perspectives” conference on
28 January 2015.
M
ore than 60 representatives from
voluntary organisations attended
a special engagement event run
by CPFT in November.
This one-day event is
taking place in room LAB
002, Lord Ashcroft Building,
at the Anglia Ruskin
University campus, East
Road, Cambridge.
The day-long meeting took place to allow
organisations to have their say on services
run by CPFT.
The event, which was held at Wood
Green in Godmanchester, also asked
delegates to suggest ways in which the
Trust can improve the way it works with
voluntary groups and representatives of
the third sector.
Those who attended included charities,
community groups and carers’
organisations. Colleagues from
Cambridgeshire County Council,
Peterborough City Council, Healthwatch
Cambridgeshire and Healthwatch
Peterborough were also present.
All the delegates had the chance to
network and hear presentations from
CPFT chief executive Aidan Thomas and
director of service integration, Deborah
Cohen.
Neil Winstone, associate director of
performance delivery, who organised the
meeting, said: “It was great to meet
representatives of so many different
voluntary organisations.
“The groups are all doing incredible work
across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.
Today was designed to show we are
listening to their views and how important
they are to our work. There is no doubt
that we want to improve the ways in
which we are working together.
“Today will give us clear actions that we
can take forward which will help us to
improve our joint working for the benefit
of patients and service users.”
The day will involve
presentations and
workshops on experiencing
voices, living well and
supporting each other.
If you would like to attend,
contact Prof Shula Ramon,
from ARU, at
[email protected]
or Sharon Gilfoyle, from
CPFT, at
[email protected]
Registrations must be in by
9 January 2015.
Ready, steady, care!
Staff and patients at Oak 1 at The
Cavell Centre have begun a new
cookery club.
They are working together to make
their own evening meals, up to three
times a week. The project will give
patients and staff the chance to
improve their culinary skills - and get
to know each other better when they
sit down to enjoy what they've
cooked.
Ward Manager Becky Thorogood
(pictured right) said: “This has all been
the idea of one of my team, Val
Richards (also pictured), and it’s gone
really well. The restaurant at The
Cavell Centre is very good, but Val
thought it would be great if we could
make our own meals.
“As a group - and that’s patients and
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staff - we’ve decided to commit to
making three evening meals a week.”
In the first few days of the new meal
scheme, the patients and staff have
sat down to sausage hotpot, a beef
stew and chicken and vegetable soup.
Becky said: “We have two slow
cookers on the ward and appealed for
staff at The Cavell Centre to donate
any tins or veg they have hidden away
in their pantries which we could use to
stock up on the ward. We've all been
getting together in the morning and
working to prepare the vegetables,
which have been grown on the ward’s
allotment, and the meat.
“Then at the end of the day, when the
food is cooked, we've been sitting
together and enjoying meal times. It’s
given us a chance to all talk together
and there's been a really good
atmosphere on the ward.
“It's never easy for staff and patients
to get to know each other, but this
has really helped to break down any
barriers that may have existed.”
It is now hoped that other wards
across CPFT will embrace the idea.
200 take part in dementia trials
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early days to say whether any of these
trials will translate in to widespread
clinical treatments. However, I am
personally optimistic that within five
years, we will see a major
breakthrough in the treatment of
conditions like Alzheimer’s.”
ore than 200 people across
Cambridgeshire and
Peterborough are now taking
part in research into dementia.
The trials are conducted by experts
from Cambridgeshire and
Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
and the University of Cambridge. If
successful, the trials could lead to
major breakthroughs in the
understanding, prevention and
treatment of dementia within five
years.
Dr Ben Underwood, Consultant
Psychiatrist at CPFT, who is
co-ordinating the trials, said: “There
are now nine different clinical trials
taking place involving 240 patients
and service users from CPFT.
“This is a very exciting time and we
are delighted that so many people
have agreed to take part. We know
that dementia is a massive issue and
thanks to the recent investment there
has been into this kind of work, we
have been able to move research
forwards.
Ben Underwood
“My colleagues and I remain hopeful
that these studies will ultimately lead
to better care and treatments.”
The studies span a range of areas from
looking at the effect of different
medicines through to measuring how
different activities and games may
delay the onset of dementia-related
conditions.
Dr Underwood, speaking ahead of
World Mental Health Day on Friday,
10 October, added: “It is still quite
The Alzheimer’s Society says that by
2015 there will be 850,000 people
with dementia in the UK, while
Alzheimer’s Research UK states that
Alzheimer’s and other dementias
affect nearly 7,500 people in
Cambridgeshire.
In December, the Government
announced funding for dementia
research will increase to £132m by
2025. At the moment £52m of
government money goes to dementia
research.
Last year, CLAHRC East of England,
which is a collaboration between CPFT
and the Universities of Cambridge and
East Anglia was awarded nearly £10m
to aid cutting edge research into the
care of people with mental health
conditions.
Mental health project kicks off
Players have praised a football project
aimed at supporting those with
experience of mental health issues in
Peterborough.
The scheme is a collaboration between
CPFT, Peterborough United FC,
Peterborough and Fenland Mind, and
Northamptonshire Football
Association. The participants have
even been asked to form a team and
play against other sides involved in
similar projects across the country.
More than 20 people signed up for
ten weekly sessions designed to boost
their mental well-being and encourage
them to play football more regularly.
One player, Ben, said: “The last ten
weeks have been brilliant. To come
down here, play football and exercise
and socialise with the other people
has been fantastic. I honestly believe
it’s been the single biggest factor in
my recovery.”
Another participant, Spencer, said:
“We’ve all really enjoyed it. It’s a
mixed group of different abilities, but
everyone’s skill levels have improved.
It’s been a really good experience and
it’s really helped towards my
recovery.”
Matt Rowe, Support Time Recovery
Worker with CPFT, said: “The links
between exercise and improving
people’s mental health are very well
documented. People who have
lived-experience of mental health
issues often find themselves feeling
isolated, but this project has given
them a chance to get together with
others, play their football and have
fun. We’ve had a lot of interest from
other projects like it across the
country, and we’ve been invited to
play against a team run by a
Championship club, and invited to
take part in a cup competition. That’s
given everyone a boost, and I’m really
looking forward to January when we
start the next ten sessions.”
The project, co-ordinated by CPFT’s
Recovery College East, has been
taking place at Netherton United FC,
Mayors Walk, Peterborough, every
Wednesday between 2pm and 3pm.
The first two weeks were free of
charge, and then cost £2 per player.
Money raised will go towards funding
further sessions which are being led by
coaches from The Posh.
For further details about the football
project, or any other courses run by
Recovery College East, e-mail:
[email protected] or
call 01223 884431.
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Know your Governors...
Colin Shaw talks about his role as CPFT Public Governor
What is your background?
I am a former Guardian foreign affairs
journalist. After retirement, I spent 10
years as a county councillor for a
deprived area of Cambridge. In both
jobs I had to handle sensitive issues
and learned how to challenge and
probe, and I thought I could use these
skills as a Governor.
Why did you want to be a
Governor?
I wanted to be a Governor because I
was concerned, both as a patient and
a Labour activist, at the government’s
decision to change the face of the
NHS. My aim was to help to ensure
that mental health didn’t suffer as a
result of the formation of the new
Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG).
I have talked to health experts at a
CCG event in Huntingdon to learn
more, and I am also representing the
trust at a stakeholders’ briefing on the
Greater Cambridge City deal, with the
task of reporting back to Governors.
journalist, and was also a befriender
with Mind in Cambridgeshire.
I was involved in establishing three
homelessness organisations in
Cambridge in the 1990s. As an adviser
with Emmaus and Wintercomfort, I
got interested in mental health, as
experience showed 40% of homeless
people tended to have mental health
illnesses; I was a communications
worker for Cambridge’s Lifecraft
mental health charity after retiring as a
What have you been involved in
since being elected?
On becoming a governor three years
ago, I joined the then Governors’
Effectiveness Group. I have helped
recruit Non-Executive Directors, been
active during the sometimes tricky
learning curve entailed in
understanding the Governor role and
responsibilities, as well as being fully
engaged with our successful
integrated care bid. Like all at the
Trust, my wish is for more money to
go into the Cinderella that is the
mental health service. And I’ll do what
I can to achieve that.
Are there any issues you feel are
particularly important to you?
Looking ahead, as an Anglican Lay
Minister, I am hoping to play a part in
the Trust’s chaplaincy work.
Member events
CPFT has organised a number of
events for members over the coming
months - just book your place by
e-mailing
[email protected] or
call her on 01223 726768.
Friday 30 January 2015:
Mindfulness
12noon-1pm: Fulbourn Chapel, Resource
Centre, Fulbourn Hospital, Fulbourn,
Cambridge CB21 5EF.
Tuesday 24 February 2015:
Talk by Dr Deborah Girling
Time and venue to be confirmed
Friday 13 March 2015:
Mindful eating
1pm-2pm: Room F24, Newtown Centre,
Nursery Road, Huntingdon PE29 3RJ
Friday 24 April 2015:
Mindful breathing
11am-12noon: Conference Suite, Cavell
Centre, Bretton Gate, Peterbrough PE3
9GZ
Friday 5 June 2015:
Mindful walk
12noon-1pm: Meet at the Chapel,
Resource Centre, Fulbourn Hospital,
Fulbourn, Cambridge CB21 5EF.
Friday 17 July 2015:
Mindfulness
1pm-2pm: Training room, Cavell Centre,
Bretton Gate, Peterbrough PE3 9GZ
CPFT Board meeting dates
Council of Governors
Board of Directors
10 December 2014: 6pm-8pm,
Conference Hall, Ida Darwin, Fulbourn,
Cambridge CB21 5EE
28 January 2015: Boardroom,
Elizabeth House, Fulbourn Hospital,
Fulbourn CB21 5EF
11 March 2015: 5.30pm-7.30pm,
Enterprise Lounge, Peterborough
Regional College
4 February 2015: Kestrel Room,
Hinchingbrooke Country Park,
Brampton Road, Huntingdon
www.cpft.nhs.uk
31 March 2015: Huntingdon Room,
Newtown Centre, Nursery Road,
Huntingdon PE29 3RJ
28 April 2015: Conference Room,
Cavell Centre, Bretton Gate,
Peterborough PE3 9GZ