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Postnatal Depression Across Cultures
Who should attend?
- Health professionals: GP's/ health visitors/ psychological workers/psychiatrists
- Advice/Communtiy Workers, Community Development Workers, Midwives
- New mothers and fathers, other family members
- Voluntary organisations /Community Group
- Mental Health Commissioners and CAMHS Leads
- Mental Health Service providers
This is a free conference. For registration and further details contact:
The BME Health & Wellbeing Team Tel: 01706 752 340
Email: bme@rochdalemind.org.uk
- Please find a programme for Postnatal Depression Across Cultures Conference by clicking a link below:
Spring Newsletter
Voices 4 Wellbeing Newsletter for Spring 2012 is out now! We hope you enjoy reading about the work that we have been doing over the past three months and find the information included enlightening and useful. Please find an electronic copy of our latest Newsletter by clicking a link below:
Quality care. Everywhere.
This Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, help make quality care a reality for all men with prostate cancer.
Background
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men in the UK. Every year 37,000 men are diagnosed and 250,000 men are now living with the disease.
We know that men face a postcode lottery in the quality of prostate cancer services and care they receive. We believe that this is unacceptable. Men should have access to the same high quality care wherever they live. Sadly, the Government’s progress to properly set out the care that men should receive is very slow and threatens the quality of care men are receiving now.
To address these issues, we have been working with men affected by prostate cancer and their families, health professionals, policy-makers and others to develop a set of standards that outline the best quality care that all men with prostate cancer need.
Take action now!
1.What do you think about our vision for quality care?
Tell us what you think about the standards of quality prostate cancer care we have drafted.
2. Contact your MP and ask them to support our standards of quality care.
Your MP can help make sure quality care becomes a reality in your area. If they support our standards, they can publicise them to people affected by prostate cancer in your area. Contact your MP now or go to www.prostate-cancer.org.uk/takeaction for more information.
If you have any questions or would like hard copies of our draft standards of care, please contact us at campaigns@prostate-cancer.org.uk or on 020 8222 7622 (please ask for the Policy and Campaigns team).
HealthWatch Update
Latest update of HealthWatch from Central Government is that the development of Local HealthWatch has been put back from October 2012 to April 2013 and HealthWatch England to be established by October 2012.
Future Events
Organ Donation Event
Voices 4 Wellbeing has been working in partnership with BME Health Matters and Pennine Acute Foundation Trust to develop campaign to encourage organ donation from the Muslim Community in Rochdale. Two meetings have already taken place with local community members and Imams to see how this agenda can be moved forward. In 2012 Voices 4 Wellbeing will hold a 'Have Your Say' event on Organ Donation, details to follow.
Stigma – Join the Debate
Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust is conducting a survey to find out what local patients, service users, carers and the public think about mental health and whether they have ever been discriminated against because of a mental health condition.
Pennine Care provides community and mental health services in the boroughs of Bury, Oldham and Rochdale, as well as mental health services in Stockport, Tameside and Glossop.
It’s the first time the Trust has conducted a stigma survey on this scale and we want to hear from a range of different people about what they think stigma is, whether they have experienced it and what we can do to help stop it.
For details on how to join the debate, please view the flyer or visit www.penninecare.nhs.uk/stigmadebate
