This week, we should describe as a good week for offender health in the West Midlands, we do have reason to be cheerful, sometimes we forget this.  I finish this week knowing we have made some significant improvements. Have a good weekend.

At the end of last week, we had a response through our you tube channel to our places of safety training DVDs. The response was a patient experience of being held in a police station under S136 of the Mental Health Act, some 2 years ago.  You can view Amy's experience here.

 

 So my challenge for today is how does a report on the benefits of the patient IT system in West Midlands, make a difference to the patient.....what's your challenge for the day?

Been a bit of an odd week, this week. One I'll remember for a while. You will see from the announcements that we are now in a position to make a statement about the future of the offender health programme in the West Midlands. If you haven't seen the letter, you can view it here. 

As I have alluded to before there is going to be a lot of rumour about what is going on.  Hopefully I can make what I know clear here.  It is sad that the offender programme as we know it is ending.  I have been involved in the West Midlands offender programme for what will be 5.5 years by the end of March 11.  However all that has been confirmed as ending is the work undertaken by us in the Strategic Health Authority, and as many of you know all of the Strategic Health Authority will cease by 2012.

The front line work continues, there remain prisons in the region, multi-agency teams working across the region delivering services in prisons and in the community. None...