Andrea Cowlishaw

Happy Valentine’s Day from Team Windermere. Staff filled the day with love for our patients with some fabulous cake pops, cheesecake and trifle (thanks Vicky). We also shared gifts as part of our “secret Valentine” to show our appreciation of each other ❤️#windermereiswonderful

Pancake day on windermere Lodge was flipping gorgeous (pardon the pun) patients and staff have all enjoyed their pancakes 🥞

🐉Celebrating Chinese New Year 🐉 @Andrealisaking

Patients Enjoying the piano with @lchord this morning

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Windermerelodge/our naughty elf has been causing trouble again #windermereishavingfun

Windermere is officially welcoming christmas to the ward... #christmas #windermereiswonderful

Celebrating our psychology team past and present for #psychologicalprofessionsweek2023 and a warm welcome to Chloe who joins us next week.

@anderson_lja @hattieohe1 @Gateshead_NHS Could u possibly send some information as I'm oral hygiene champion on our ward. Andrea.cowlishaw@nhs.net

@Gateshead_NHS Come and pay us a visit in the Hub today between 10am and 2pm for day one of mouthcare matters week. We will be raising awareness of the importance of good mouthcare for our patients as well as displaying new mouthcare equipment and assessment documentation

Starting off our remembrance day activities with decorating the ward, lots more to come .... #RemembranceDay2023 #windermereiswonderful #meaningfulactivities

Lovely “Tea and Talk” session. Our head judge sampled all the cakes (without knowing who the bakers were) and declared the Halloween cake the winner - the cake was made by one of our patients in our therapy kitchen! #windermereiswonderful @rdash_nhs

Re enablement continue with their themed lunch groups, this week was Indian food. With bollywood dancing and henna influenced arts and craft activities throughout the week. #reenablement #meaningfulactivities #windermereiswonderful

Fridays theme for lunch group was Chinese. Patients helped our fabulous reablement team cook some amazing food in our therapy kitchen (the smell was enough to tickle anyone’s tastebuds) #windermereiswonderful #therapyteam #reablement @NomaMakha @JackieGelder

All good things must come to an end. Thankyou to our fabulous James for being our first ever Assistant Psychologist. You have been an incredible addition to the team. Good luck with the next chapter. #windermereiswonderful #inpatientslossiscommunitysgain

Ended #FallsPreventionAwarenessWeek with coffee and cake supported by our lead physio, discharge assistant and nursing assistants. Patients, relatives and staff all enjoyed the cake!#windermereiswonderful @rdash_nhs @EmmaSly5 @CWongRDaSH

Our themed lunch groups have continued this week, Greek salad, music and some (paper) plate throwing 'OPA' #Greece #windermereiswonderful #reenablement

Day 3 of #FallsPreventionAwarenessWeek and our safety huddle has been an interactive Spot the falls risk session #windermereiswonderful #spotthehazard