February 2012 Newsletter

In this issue

• BID Out and About
• BID Coming Together April meeting dates
• LINk Devon & Healthwatch
• BID January Coming Together meetings write up
• Engagement Network and Fusion Gateway news
• New involvement worker in Torbay
• Become a Governor
• Rethink Open Forum for Exeter, East and Mid Devon
• Improving information about medication
• Recovery Devon wants to hear from you
• 5 Ways to Wellbeing - ‘Stripping it bare’

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January 2012 Newsletter

In this issue

• BID Out and About
• BID Coming Together January meetings
• D-RRIG & Autumn Festival
• BID vacancy
• Introducing Niki
• Research into self harm and suicide
• LINk Devon events
• Engagement Network and Fusion Gateway news
• National Crisis Standards
• Lived experience event
• Adverse effects of psychological therapies
• Recovery Devon
• 5 Ways to Wellbeing – Mindfulness

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December 2011 Newsletter

In this issue

• BID Out and About
• BID Coming Together January meetings
• Research—parents experiencing low mood
• National Crisis Service Standards update
• Fusion Board and being a BID rep
• LINk Devon opportunities
• Get involved with local radio
• Experts by Experience
• 5 Ways to Wellbeing— The Best Me

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November 2011 Newsletter

In this issue

• BID Out and About

• BID job vacancy

• BID Coming Together meetings, October write-up

• Refocus on Recovery - free tickets

• The Fusion Gateway and consultations

• Benefitting from each others’ experience: people with psychosis

• Recovery Devon

• Crisis Service Standards update

• 5 Ways to Wellbeing - Getting back to work: new beginnings

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October 2011 Newsletter

In this issue

• Be part of the BID Team
• BID Out and About
• BID Coming Together meetings
• Recovery Devon
• Rethink community forums
• Online healthcare discussions
• Celebrating World Mental Health Day
• Devon Partnership Trust: Becoming a governor; AGM and annual report; NAG meetings
• Time to Change feedback
• Bipolar research
• Your community your choice
• 5 Ways to Wellbeing— Music is what feelings sound like

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September 2011 Newsletter

In this issue

• BID October meetings
• BID Out and About
• Altered States event
• Time to Change Roadshow
• National Standards for Crisis Services
• National community mental health survey results
• Devon Partnership Trust: policies for comment; Network Action Group dates
• Devon Autumn Festival of Recovery
• Recovery Devon
• Rethink community forums
• National Service User Network
• INVOLVE - members wanted
• Help GPs design a patient survey
• 5 Ways to Wellbeing - being involved in the largest bipolar study in the world!

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August 2011 Newsletter

In this issue

• BID new dates for October Coming Together meetings
• BID Out and About
• Community Treatment Orders - get your views heard
• Crisis plans - be involved in S&W Devon
• Rethink Open Forum meetings reminder
• BID July Coming Together meetings write up
• Recovery Devon: Leadership Role - job vacancy; next meeting
• Devon Autumn Festival of Recovery Innovations
• 5 Ways to Wellbeing – three stories about maintaining wellbeing

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July 2011 Newsletter

In this issue

• BID contract arrangements Update
• BID Out and About
• Being involved in interviews
• BID July Coming Together meetings
• The new single engagement contract for people in Devon
• Rethink Open Forum meetings reminder
• Devon Autumn Festival of Recovery Innovations
• Changes to the Health and Social Care Bill—Good news for involvement!
• Fusion Board update
• Quality, Improvement and Safety (QIS) update
• 5 Ways to Wellbeing – keep learning about yourself

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June 2011 Newsletter

In this issue

• BID Coming Together July Meetings

• BID Out and About

• BID Contract update

• Fusion Board

• Rethink - have your say

• ImROC update

• Quality, Improvement and Safety (QIS)

• Conferences / events: local and national

• Psychology Forum for Exeter, East and Mid Devon

• Research request

• Award nominations

• 5 Ways to Wellbeing - the Expert Patient Programme

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May 2011 Newsletter

In this issue

• BID Contract update

• BID Out and About

• Involving young people

• Spring to life eco-therapy

• Rethink—involvement

• BID April Coming Together meetings report

• Patients’ experiences of the first-tier tribunal

• Psychological therapy forum for Exeter, East & Mid Devon

• The national personal budget survey

• SANE survey - schizophrenia and bipolar

• Network Action Groups

• South West Alliance event

• 5 Ways to Wellbeing—How I Stay Well

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April 2011 Newsletter

In this issue

• BID Out and About
• BID Contract update
• Involving young people
• Recovery Devon
• Bi-polar disorder and exercise
• Interview skills workshop update
• Free voice training
• South West Mental Health Alliance
• Mental health and debt
• Policies out for consultation
• Open Up involvement opportunity
• Devon Partnership Trust Foundation Trust
• 5 Ways to Wellbeing, staying active

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March 2011 Newsletter

In this issue

• BID Out and About
• BID Contract update
• January Coming Together meetings write-up
• BID newsletter feedback
• Dual Diagnosis training feedback
• Internet Technology Mental Health conference, Devon
• Key challenges to recovery
• Comment on Mind publications
• No health without mental health
• Devon Depression & Anxiety Service - involvement request
• Being heard in Parliament
• 5 Ways to Wellbeing - Measuring the nation’s wellbeing

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BID Newsletter feedback summary

Thanks very much to everyone who gave their feedback about the BID newsletter using the form we sent out in January.

The March newsletter contains a brief summary of the feedback and what we will do in response.  If you would like to read a fuller summary of the feedback, you can download it from the link below.

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February 2011 Newsletter

In this issue

• BID Out and About
• BID Contract
• BID Interview Skills Workshops
• Dual Diagnosis Training
• NHS consultations
• Devon Partnership Trust: D-RRIG; ImROC; Policies for comment; Internet & mental health
• Speaking Up courses
• Wanted!
• 5 Ways to Wellbeing: Poetry competition; Sleep and mental health; Involvement in Mind Crisis Care survey

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January 2011 Newsletter

In this issue

• BID Out and About
• BID contract arrangements
• BID January Coming Together meetings
• Dual diagnosis training
• 2 research studies into depression
• Devon Partnership Trust updates
• Glenn Roberts retiring
• LINk Devon: depression and anxiety project
• Devon County Council Community Needs Survey
• Care Quality Commission and the Mental Health Act
• Personalisation and mental health event
• Involvement in staff recruitment—BID feedback
• Employment and mental health event
• 5 Ways to Wellbeing - Keep Learning

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December 2010 Newsletter

In this issue

• BID What we do
• BID Out and About
• BID Coming Together meetings
• Mental Health Research Network, West Hub
• Devon Partnership Trust Policies for consultation
• BID contract arrangements
• LITSUN (Local Implementation Team Service User Network)
• Devon Partnership Trust: Recovery update; User-led online learning
• NHS Consultations
• Depression and memory
• Psychosis: stories of recovery and hope conference
• Talking with medical students
• 5 Ways to Wellbeing— mental health and learning disability

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November 2010 Newsletter

In this issue

• BID January meetings
• BID Out and About
• BID Coming Together meetings write-up
• Devon Partnership Trust - Implementing Recovery
• Devon Partnership Trust - Research and Recovery Job Advert
• LINk Devon leaving hospital survey
• Women’s Network, Exeter area
• Recovery Devon
• North Devon & Torridge Psychological Therapies Forum
• Help at Hand - telecare trial
• Paternal depression seminar
• 5 Ways to Wellbeing - Spiritual Connections
• 5 Ways to Wellbeing - Art on Prescription

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October 2010 Newsletter

In this issue

• NHS White Paper
• BID Out and About
• BID Coming Together meetings
• LINk Devon Exeter volunteer
• BID updates
• Mental Health & Wellbeing Strategy for Devon
• Devon Partnership Trust Annual Report
• Devon County Council Tough Choices consultation
• Triangle of Care event
• Experts by Experience
• Recovery Devon
• South Western Ambulance Service Trust
• Your stories
• United Nations—Disability Rights
• Five Ways to Wellbeing: World Mental Health Day

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September 2010 Newsletter

In this issue

• BID Out and About
• Accommodation & Support
• WRAP taster session
• Mental health & wellbeing research opportunities
• Talking with Approved Mental Health Professionals
• Public participation in medicine seminar
• Policies out for information and comment
• Recovery Devon
• Healthwatch
• Five Ways to Wellbeing:
• Speaking up courses

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August 2010 Newsletter

In this issue 

• BID Out and About
• Post Natal Depression Study
• Policies out for information and comment
• BID Coming Together feedback
• Involvement in focus
• Involvement feedback - Accommodation & Support
• Five Ways to Wellbeing

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July 2010 Newsletter

In this issue

• BID Coming Together
• BID Out and About
• Joint Engagement Strategy
• Recovery Devon
• On the Road write-up
• Accommodation & Support
• BID supporting involvement in staff recruitment
• Childcare survey update
• Five Ways to Wellbeing

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June 2010 Newsletter

In this issue

• BID Coming Together
• BID Out and About
• Personality Disorder info
• Learning to Involve
• Joint Engagement Strategy
• Mental Health Research
• Young people and housing
• Recovery events
• Men and mental health update
• Accommodation & support
• Devon Partnership Trust news
• Mental health nursing
• Childcare survey
• Five Ways to Wellbeing

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May 2010 Newsletter

In this issue 

• BID On the Road
• BID Out and About
• New Horizons update
• Royal College of Psychiatrists
• South West Personality Disorder Services
• Recovery meetings
• Have your say with LINk Devon
• Making a difference in the workplace
• Devon Partnership Trust information and involvement
• Involving people in social work training and education website
• Involvement feedback
• Five Ways to Wellbeing

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April 2010 Newsletter

In this issue

• BID On the Road
• BID Out and About
• Nursing and mental health
• Share your inpatient experiences
• Developing recovery guidelines for prescribing and medication
• Are you an Expert by Experience?
• Access to talking therapies
• Making a difference in the workplace
• Devon Partnership Trust reports
• Childcare research

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March 2010 Newsletter

In this issue

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February 2010 Newsletter

In this issue

• BID Out and About
• Introducing BID Development Workers
• Psychological Therapies Participant Forum
• LINk Devon Café Corner
• What difference does involvement make in research?
• Your experiences of the new ‘Place of Safety’
• Patient Participation Group
• Putting People First

January 2010 Newsletter

In this issue

• New Horizons
• Local care planning research
• National research on working with workers
• What’s your story?
• Introducing Jessica and Julie, BID Development Workers
• Rejuvenation.
• Accommodation and Support Strategy, BID write-up
• On the Edge

December 2009 Newsletter

• Devon’s new supported accommodation strategy
• 5 Ways to Wellbeing
• Introducing Janet
• Time to Change Lived Experience Advisors wanted
• Medical Assessments Research
• NHS Direct online mental health advice

November 2009 Newsletter

In this issue

• The BID Team
• Direct Payments for health care
• BID out and about
• Your Views Wanted
• Involving people in the recruitment of BID staff

October 2009 Newsletter

In this issue

• The BID Team
• BID out and about
• The Big Care Debate
• Finding the road to recovery
• Torbay or not Torbay in BID

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