Mental Health
Achievements:
January 2018 - December 2018
The Burdett Nursing Awards 2018
The Burdett Trust for Nursing was established to promote and advance education, research and
training within nursing and other healthcare professions for the benefit of the public and to promote:
• Public awareness of nursing and health issues
• Provide for the relief of hardship and mental or physical ill-health among nurses and other
health-care professionals and their dependants
• Promote and advance the provision of nursing and other health services for the benefit of the
public.
The South Eastern HSC Trust Mental Health Nursing Team led by Colette Reynolds, Psychological
Wellbeing Practitioner and Anne Gordon, Audit and Governance Facilitator, submitted an application
to the inaugural Burdett Trust Awards.
The purpose of the award scheme is to bring a fresh dimension to the Burdett Trust, to open it up to
new people and to promote innovation and best practice in health care worldwide. The team were
successful in winning the award in the Mental Health Nursing category and in doing so, collected a
£20,000 grant.
Colette and Anne submitted an application to the award scheme and were subsequently invited to
London to deliver a presentation to a panel of judges that included the Chairman of the Burdett Trust.
The team was shortlisted to the top three and
attended the awards ceremony, which was hosted
by the Burdett Trust at the Waldorf Hotel, London
in May 2018. This award emphasised and
recognised a Nurse Led Project, which had
commenced in 2015.
Having recognised the deficit in the provision of
psychological approaches in acute mental health
settings, the team believed that treatment outcomes
and the patient's experience could be significantly
enhanced if inpatients had access to evidence
based psychological care and treatment.
Colette Reynolds and Anne Gordon
receiving the Burdett Trust Mental
Health Nursing Award.
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