Hi All We are having clinical debates at present about the appropriateness of patients within medium secure services having MP3 players due to their recording...
Hi Kathryn, We are sort of in the middle of looking into this. Currently MP3 players that can only play music are allowed - i.e. no photo, video or wireless...
Hi This was brough to our attention when a patient had reported he had used his MP3 player to record night staff and intended to use it as evidence at his...
Hi everyone, My name is Emma and I am an OT student on the third year placement at a forensic unit. I need to do a literature review and write up a research...
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Hello, I am currently trying to establish an OT programme on the acute admissions ward of a MSU for adult males. This is proving to be quite a challenge due to...
Hi all, We are setting up a number of vocational projects at our Forensic Unit which caters for both low and medium patients. One of the projects identified...
... at a ... in ... Hi Emma I recently graduated and decided to do a similar literature review and research proposal. Unfortunately there is not a great deal...
Hi We provide a range of therapeutic activity offered to all (although not all are at a level of ability to participate), to a select group (depending upon...
Hello! I am an occupational therapy student at Utica College in New York State. For one of my classes, we are discussing various treatment settings and I am...
Hi Mark, WLMHT has been succesfully running a car valeting service through work rehab for a number of years on the site of St Bernard's Hospital (Ealing). If...
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Hi Sarah, Many thanks for the reply. I have emailed Kate Morris from the WLMHT regarding the valeting (I guess that's who you were going to say) and am just...
Hi, Im an OT in New Zealand, looking to get in touch with fellow OT's working in the area of Forensic intellectual disability/ learning disability. I would...
Hello Melanie, My name is Kathy and Im from New Zealand. I am the OT at the national intellectual disability secure unit. My case load is between 17-19 male...
Thank you wendy, some useful ideas. I shall check out model of creative ability too. ... We ... for ... rolling ... cards ... the ... I ... in ... quite ... ...
Hi Victoria, We run a programme on our intensive care ward and do similar activties to those already mentioned. I wanted to just add though, that regularly...
Hi all! I'm a new member of this group, working in a medium secure unit. Currentyl I'm looking into the possibility of starting an internal patient radio...
What a wonderful and phenomenal idea! I'd also be interested in finding out more information on this project.....specifically start up costs, equipment and...
Hi Cindy We are in the very early stages of planning of this project at the minute so i dont have too many details to share with you at present but i will...
Nacro are undertaking some mapping work on behalf of CSIP South East to find out what work is being done in the region around equality and diversity and...
Hi, I currently work on a rehabilitation ward in a RSU. I've been thinking about setting up some kind of group whereby patients are actively involved in...
Hi Hannah We had a patient magazine at the North London Forensic Service and I would be happy to share my experiences of the group. You can email me or ring me...
Dear Group, Just thought I would let you know that the group has reached the landmark number of 500 active members! Congratulations to S. Thistlewaite who ...
I have an interview for a post on a new 12 bedded male LSU unit next week. I have done lots of reading around and guess it's important to be 'up' on risk...
Hi All, We are trying to put together a policy for sexual health and behaviour here (it's still going Sar!). As part of this I have been asked to identify what...
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Thank you, your encouragement is much appreciated. It is difficult but I am finding that consistency and perserverance does pay off. Also that when people are...
Hi Nicola, I'm fairly new to using this site! Do you have a separate email address I can use to speak to you about the group? Many thanks for your help Hannah...
Hi there, I don't suppose if anyone knows of any community 24hr residential accomodation placements which take older adults with forensic histories (currently...
