UHCW Dementia and Delirium Team

Today 12 amazing people and 2 dogs gave up their morning and braved the rain to walk to raise money for patients and their families at UHCW. Well done everyone! Check out their @JustGiving page at justgiving.com/page/nikki-gou…

💡 #Delirium isn’t “just confusion” - it TRIPLES mortality at 30 days. Would you ignore a heart attack? Stop normalizing brain failure. #WDAD2025

Today is World Delirium Awareness Day! And no better way of spending it than having a great teaching session with the IMT doctors at UHCW about why delirium care is so important @nhsuhcw

Every day is a learning day. Looking forward to tomorrow @TheNeuroAcademy

New BGS #Delirium elearning course is suitable for any health and social care professional who provides care for older people who experience delirium or are at risk. It is particularly aimed at professionals who deal with complex cases or lead services. bgs.org.uk/policy-and-med…

Dreams. 1. Every older person inpatient has a CFS+4AT and people understand why we do them. 2. Everybody caring for older people with frailty can describe how they normally walk vs how they currently walk 3. Clinicians can explain the gap and understand the need for rehab

✨UHCW has become the first trust in England to deliver a revolutionary new Parkinson's treatment to an outpatient. Seamus Connolly, who was diagnosed in 2013, underwent his treatment at University Hospital Coventry. 🔗Read the full story: uhcw.nhs.uk/news/uhcw-beco…

Cake sale now open in the forget me not lounge. £1 for any cake or clotted cream scone or cookies. All raising money for the uhcw charity @james_gaywood @marielawrence18 @CriniganJo @vickyDCNO @pijush357ray @eacpuhcw @UHCWCharity

To celebrate the end of Dementia Action Week 2024, we have a charity bake sale in the Forget Me Not lounge from 1-3pm. Hope to see you all there @nhsuhcw @UHCWCharity @james_gaywood @TherapyUhcw @eacpuhcw @pijush357ray @CriniganJo @VanessaMC_uhcw @vickyDCNO

The winner for our dementia action week board competition - CTCC! What a fantastic board, full of information, patient centred and practical ideas on how to improve care for our patients. Well done CTCC & amazing work Mary Jane. @vickyDCNO @nhsuhcw @UHCW_CT_UNIT @CharlotteBeddo9

Next stop on our tour of the wards with @vickyDCNO was acute frailty, w31a, w40 and w20a. Some great information for staff, patients and their relatives.

What an amazing afternoon going round the wards with @vickyDCNO to see all the amazing boards teaching about dementia awareness. We started with interventional radiology, w34, CTCC and ward 31.

Dementia Action Week 2024 - we are at the innovation hub all day. Come along to find out more about dementia diagnosis and what the team can offer you @eacpuhcw @nhsuhcw @CharlotteBeddo9 @DebbieH87476849

Today the wonderful Palliative Nurses and Patient Partner representative have a pop up information stand for #DyingMattersAwarenessWeek. Pay them a visit in the Involvement Hub @UHCW to learn more and provide feedback about this years theme "The way we talk about dying matters".

@UHCW_REACT This is amazing!!

Happy Friday! Eunice completed the Deconditioning Awareness display for the ward and it looks amazing ✨#frailty #preventingdeconditioning

Custard cream for a delirium screen!!! #WDAD2024

It’s World Delirium Awareness Day. The Dementia and Delirium team will be out and about today, with the incentive of ‘a custard cream for a delirium screen’ @nhsuhcw think SQID and get those delirium bundles started asap!!

Sudden withdrawing of antidepressants & many other drugs can cause #delirium. Think twice before scoring off drugs - sometimes no change or tapering down is more appropriate. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31896883

Stay tuned for the next World Delirium Awareness Day on March 13th 2024, the theme this year on @WDAD2024 is: Humanizing Delirium Care More info and projects on deliriumday.com

Happy AHP day! To all the AHPs at UHCW, you all do an amazing job, thank you!