Specialist Occupational Therapist Lee Samuel and Exercise Therapy Clinical Lead Michael Hindmarch talk about the different patient wellbeing projects CNTW’s SHINE charity has funded at St. George’s Park in Morpeth.
St George’s Park provides a full range of mental health facilities including:
– Acute adult admission/treatment and psychiatric intensive care
– Mother and baby
– Rehabilitation
– Geriatric assessment/treatment/day hospital
– Northumberland Head Injuries Service
as well as some of our Trust’s community services.
St. George’s Park is also the base for our Northumberland Initial Response Team which provides 24-hour urgent mental health care to anyone who lives in Northumberland and feels they need urgent care.
To find out more about CNTW’s SHINE charity, visit www.cntw.nhs.uk/SHINE
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My name is Lee Samuel I’m a specialist occupational therapist at St George’s Park Hospital in morphus the garden had been in a bit of disrepair because nobody was able to kind of spend the time kind of looking after it and restoring it so we really needed um the
Money from shine to purchase some items in order to grow vegetables and fruit we’re able to kind of restore the ground and get all the Moss away and all the rubble and and create a really lovely peaceful environment patients are able to use it on a onetoone basis so it’s
Really great for patients that maybe have um kind of sensory needs as well so we’re utilizing um this kind of therapeutic activity within the garden to really engage them we do a build and Bloom group once a week so patients are able to come and utilize a garden as I
Say we’re growing vegetables and fruit when it comes into that season um and yeah it’s a beautiful space to spend a bit of time if they want to do a bit of meditation if they want to do some mindfulness um and all the team are able
To use them and we we utilize it as well as well and in the nicer weather and in the sunshine it’s lovely to sit outside so Gest was a new idea and it came about through the activity support network each Ward took a table um and
They were it was more of a kind of vocational approach so thinking what are they going to sell on their stall what’s their stall going to look like so we had people doing a Ice cof and jewelry making um we had a chocolate fountain um Shane enabled us to buy a
Candy floss machine we got a really nice sign made Gest that hopefully we’ll be able to utilize over the years to come um we got a nice cream van that came um we were able to purchase a gazebo where our um music therapist was able to come
And play and the guitar and the piano and the patients were able to join in so it was a really lovely Festival feel it was really great to to allow the patients to participate in something that was quite different they were able to um you know show their their
Vocational skills and their family and their cers were able to come along as well so it was a really lovely day so we apped the shine fund over two years ago now and that was to access some money so that we could get some bikes the main reason being because we
Wanted to increase patient well-being and give them access to different activities upon the wards so looky and we received the bikes last year and we started um doing two bike groups per week where we’ll have access to 10 mountain bikes two electric bikes and a trike luckily MTH has some really good
Areas where we can take the bike so we can go and access pegwood Lake go around the different tracks of the the woods and it’s been really well received by a lot of the patients as we know cycling is really good for your health it’s really good for your cardiovascular
Fitness weight loss also just a Green Space and getting off a Ward and not being having having that leave and having that ability to go and get some fresh air and again with 10 people on bikes it’s a really good group and um it’s been really been really beneficial for All