25 August 2016

For immediate release

Join us at our Annual General Meeting

Videos showing two successful services that provide care across the age groups will be broadcast during CNWL's Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Wednesday 7 September 2016.

The first will feature the Milton Keynes High Impact Team, which works with local care homes to reduce the need for residents to go into hospital as ‘unplanned' emergency admissions by proactively managing their health and care needs and focussing on prevention.

When the service was piloted in Milton Keynes there was a 31 per cent drop in older people being admitted to hospital from care homes.

The second concentrates on a psychological treatment programme being offered by the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) in Milton Keynes to teenagers in Milton Keynes with complex and challenging mental health problems.

The treatment - Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) - is aimed at young people aged 14 to 18 in the Milton Keynes area who are frequently suicidal and who self-harm as a means of coping.

The published evidence indicates significant reductions in hospital admissions and in self-harming incidents, as well as reductions in experiencing suicidal thoughts.

CNWL runs both mental health and community health services across Milton Keynes. During the year it treated more than 47,000 patients across all age groups.

The AGM will be held at 30 Euston Square, London NW1 2FB.

All staff and members of the public are invited to attend to hear about all CNWL's services, both community and mental health.

There will be plenty of time to put questions to the Board of Directors and Governors about our performance and plans.

Chief executive Claire Murdoch said: "AGMs are when we - the Directors - account for all we do; how we spent £450 million and the outcomes for the 300,000 people we have seen. This is also an occasion when the staff have their work acknowledged by the local community; budgets often dominate the headlines, but we need to remember that the staff are the most called upon, and most valuable, of all the resource of our NHS."

Registration opens at 4.30pm (teas and coffee available), the meeting opens at 5pm and will conclude around 7pm and will be followed by light refreshments.

Visit our Eventbrite page to RSVP.

Our Annual Report is on our website.
 
Editors' notes 
 
 Attached photo is of CNWL Chief Executive Claire Murdoch

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