Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust are proud to announce that its Older People’s Mental Health teams have won Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych) Psychiatric Team of the Year: Older-age Adults 2024 for its work on developing an older people’s mental health and dementia strategy and plan for the next 10 years for Southampton, Portsmouth, Hampshire and Isle of Wight.
The programme has been recognised for creating an ambitious whole system programme to look at creating equitable pathways for older people and people with dementia, developing new models and services where there are gaps and looking at best practice nationally and locally to determine the optimal models of care based on the changing population needs at a local level. The team have created a blueprint to transform the pathways to meet the population’s needs now and over the next decade from 2024, which has been co-created with lived and learnt experience and with enormous support from partner organisations.
Judges noted that “Their way of collaborative system approach to address inequalities in care and cocreate a vision to deliver high-quality evidence-based specialist mental health services for the older adults in Hampshire and Isle of Wight. This would be an exemplary project that the team should be proud of and share widely.”
Dr Vicki Osman-Hicks, Clinical Leader for the project “We are keen to celebrate this programme that we are so proud of and the improvements it has and will enable for our communities and those that use our services now and, in the future,”.
Accepting the award on behalf of the Trust, Katy Bartolomeo, Operational Leader for Older People’s Mental Health Project said “This is a really big team effort across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, we are delighted to win this and want to especially thank all of our carers and family members, and the team and all the services for their hard work.