Chronic Mood Disorder
Who we work with
Organisations:
- Secondary Mental Health Services: Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, Derbyshire Healthcare Trust, Cambridge and Peterborough Foundation Trust
- Nottingham Psychotherapy Unit, Thorneywood
- Self-Help Nottingham
Individuals:
- Service users and their carers
- Community Psychiatric Nurses, Social workers ad Occupational Therapists
- Psychotherapists: Experts in delivery of standard Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Mindfulness and Compassionate Mind CBT
- Psychiatrists
- GPs
Progress to date
September 2009
Advertising and recruiting participants in South Nottinghamshire. This is ongoing and as of August 2011 we have 80 participants.
September 2010
Establishing support groups for study participants in the specialised treatment arm, in collaboration with Self-Help Nottingham.
August 2011
Setting up of study sites in Derbyshire, Mansfield and Cambridge.
Next steps
We are continuing to recruit participants to the study to reach a minimum total of 174. We hope that the establishment of the new sites will help to attain this figure by September 2012.
How we are disseminating our information?
We have a bi-annual newsletter sent to study participants as well as a newsletter for referrers. We regularly make presentations to community mental health teams in order to update them on the study’s progress and speak to them about making referrals. Copies of the newsletter can be downloaded here:
In late 2010 our was published. See also our comprehensive list of papers and presentations.
How are we building capacity in the NHS?
We have three Diffusion Fellows whose role it is to prove a link between the researchers and the clinicians, to ensure there is an exchange of information in both directions. The Diffusion Fellows for this project, all from Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, are:
- Neil Nixon- Consultant psychiatrist
- Anne Garland - Consultant nurse in psychological therapies
- Vijender Balain - Psychiatrist
The Diffusion Fellows work to raise awareness of the project with relevant stakeholders.