Big Book of Best Practice event and Annual Members' Meeting

Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust's Big Book of Best Practice and Annual Members' Meeting event is a showcase of the innovative best practice and quality improvement work happening across CWP, alongside the collaborative work with partners across the wider healthcare system. It features exhibitors from across the Trust whose projects are highlighted in the Big Book of Best Practice 2024-25.

The event coincides with our Annual Members' Meeting, taking place on the first floor of Sycamore House from 11am. This is your chance to hear from the Board of Directors and Council of Governors about the work of CWP over the last year, and our ambitions for the future. 

For more information, please read our Annual Report and Accounts or contact Laura Elliott via laura.elliott39@nhs.net or 01244 397 397.

9am - Arrival, registration and refreshments

  • Register at the reception desk when you arrive at Sycamore House and feel free to grab a tea or coffee from the refreshment station in the foyer.

9am to 1pm - Big Book of Best Practice marketplace

  • Spend the morning browsing our marketplace stalls and chatting to the teams behind our innovative Big Book of Best Practice 2024/25 case studies. 

11am - Annual Members‘ Meeting 

  • Isla Wilson, CWP Chair, alongside Tim Welch, Chief Executive Officer, Jennie Birch, Director of Business and Value and Helen Nellist, Lead Governor will formally present CWP’s Annual Report and Accounts and recap on the Trust’s key achievements and activity during the 2024/25 financial year.
    Location: Florence Nightingale Suite, first floor.

1pm - Event finish

We will be exhibiting the following best practice case studies from our Big Book of Best Practice in our marketplace (downstairs in the Marie Curie and Edward Jenner rooms) from 9am to 1pm.

To find out more about the Big Book of Best Practice and view all 52 case studies from this year's book, visit: Big Book of Best Practice 2024-25.

Clinical Support Services

  • Antimicrobial Prescribing audit across CWP Inpatient Mental Health Services – moving to digital reporting
  • Call Before Convey
  • Cross-sector Collaboration: Introducing the role of a Pre-Registration Pharmacy Technician 
  • National Electronic Patient Record Survey communication and engagement
  • Towards Excellence in Digital Standards: Level 1

Children, Young People and Families

  • Cheshire 0-18 CYPMHS Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
  • Extended Family Nurse Partnership programme offer to care leavers aged 24 years and under
  • National Autistic Society specialist autism accreditation
  • Open Access to 0-19 Starting Well service
  • Parent Led Interventions Pathway 
  • UK Unplugged Community Interest Company and Care Navigators
  • Wait list initiative
  • Whole school offer

Learning Disabilities, Neuro-Developmental and Acquired Brain Injury 

  • Cinderbella - A safeguarding story

Multiple care groups

  • Digital patient communications from SystmOne
  • Digitising therapeutic and supportive observations
  • Family and Carers Support Booklet - Last Days of Life
  • Filling the gap together
  • 'Prepare to Care' new starters induction programme

Neighbourhoods

  • Direct referrals to the COCH Vascular service via the ERS system
  • Ketamine-induced uropathy - Prevention rather than cure
  • Non-healing wounds pathway
  • The use of CIPHA risk stratification tool

Specialist Mental Health

  • “Listening, Learning, and Improving” - making changes over time to improve the experience of a group therapy course for service users living with dementia and their carers
  • Clozapine quality improvement plan
  • Developing, implementing and evaluating brief therapeutic interventions for women in the perinatal period
  • Enhancing the Cheshire and Merseyside NHS Talking Therapies Workforce
  • Good Citizen Project
  • Harm Reduction Unit: Stalking clinic service review
  • Integrating mental health lived experience in CWP workforce - peer support
  • Internet Safety Education
  • Post-diagnostic support for people with dementia
  • Preventing pneumonia in clozapine patients: Pharmaceutical interventions in a community mental health setting
  • Probation Dual Diagnosis Service
  • Reducing physical health inequalities in adults with a serious mental illness
  • Sensory and dementia friendly room
  • The Happy Newspaper
  • Citizens Advice Wirral Terminal
     

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