CPPE has designed this campaign for pharmacy professionals to raise awareness of mental health conditions and how the whole pharmacy team can help support people living with mental health conditions as part of routine practice.
When you complete all 5 challenges you will receive a virtual badge to add to your collection on your CPPE learning record.
If you have completed the campaign, you are now entitled to a one-year free membership with the College of Mental Health Pharmacy (CMHP). In order to get your free membership, please ensure you click here to allow us to pass on your details to claim your membership (don't worry, we'll only pass on your name and GPhC number).
This offer closes on 20th April 2018.
Use the arrows to scroll between the weekly challenges.
There are five challenges to get your teeth into. If you complete all five challenges you will receive the Supporting people living with mental health conditions learning campaign badge in your Badge collection in My CPPE.
Don't forget to sign up using the button below and encourage your colleagues and friends to take part too.
Mental ill health affects 1 in 4 people throughout their lives. It is important to appreciate what it is like living with a mental health condition and the impact on the individual, family, friends or carers.In England,1 in 6 people report experiencing a common mental health condition such as depression or anxiety in any given week.
Read one of the following blogs from Sam or Amy about how living with depression affects their lives. Think about what their priorities are and how you might be able to support them.
http://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-health-problems/depression/#.WOszNk3fNMs
Talk to a family member, friend or patient and ask them what it is like living with depression. Together identify one area of treatment or support you could tackle.
Finding the words: Taking the first step and reaching out for help is often the hardest step to take. How can we help support people to ask for help. Take a look at this video from MIND which shows some helpful strategies to approach a GP or other health care professional. https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/guides-to-support-and-services/seeking-help-for-a-mental-health-problem/where-to-start/#.WUeMA-srLIV
Discuss in your pharmacy teams how you can support people making that first step and record the date you had the conversation.
To find out more about different mental health conditions read one of the medicines optimisation briefings, produced in collaboration with the Royal Pharmaceutical Society , our medicines optimisation briefings and articles support you in helping patients to get the best outcomes from their medicines:
Depression medicines optimisation briefing and article (2015)
Schizophrenia medicines optimisation briefing and article (2014)
By mid-October you should have received your CPPE learning cards on supporting people living with mental health conditions. Take this week to familiarise yourself with its content and see how you can utilise them in your area of practice. Mental health is a broad area, and it requires a wide range of skills to manage the challenges and support patients who live with mental health conditions. Identify where your knowledge gaps are so you can focus your learning over the next weeks of the campaign. There are further supporting resources on the mental health pages including activities and detailed case studies to explore your knowledge further.
Test your knowledge on mental health by completing this week’s e-challenge from the 25th October.
This week we are focusing on changing perceptions and sharing our good practice. Take a look at the CPPE learning card 4, physical and mental health which links you to the video on perceptions of physical and mental health are currently thought of differently.
After watching this video, write down how your perceptions of people living with mental health conditions have changed and what changes you can put into place in your sector of practice to ensure parity of esteem.
In addition to this, watch our CPPE animation on mental health, and think about how you can improve your person-centred care when consulting with people with mental health conditions:
https://vimeo.com/240813319
Make a pledge on how you are going to change your practice following completion of the activities during this campaign.
We have some great ideas for things you can do and pledges you can make.
Your commitment will help show the impact that the pharmacy profession can make.
We are inviting you to share the resources you use in your place of work to help support people living with mental health conditions. These may be patient information leaflets, policies, guidelines, videos, training presentations, etc.
To share your good practice, visit the mental health resource hub We have put a couple of resources already there to get you started. Sharing your successes will help improve the efficiency of change across the profession to support people living with mental health conditions.
Challenge 5 is to make a pledge on how you are going to change your practice following completion of the activities during this campaign. Here we will show your pledges (latest 100 shown):
Rebecca Wishart
I will ask about mental health and wellbeing during medication review
24 October
Maqsud Patel
I intend to attend a Mental Health First Aid Course
21 January
George Kaye
I will ask about mental health and wellbeing during medication review
8 October
Julie Scott
I will ask about mental health and wellbeing during medication review
4 May
Rihab Elhamaky
I will attend a Mental Health First Aid training course
10 March
Heelen Shah
I will ask about mental health and wellbeing during medication review
6 February
Chandani Sakaria
"I will ask all of my patients with long term conditions about depression and how they are doing"
2 February
Anjlee Shah
I will ask about mental health and wellbeing during medication review
8 January
Nicola Palin
I will attend a Mental Health First Aid training course
27 November
Matthew Padgett
I will do a Healthy Living Pharmacy health promotion campaign on mental health / wellbeing
15 November
Peter Chan
I will ask about mental health and wellbeing during medication review
17 September
Zoe Flavell
I will attend a Mental Health First Aid training course
27 April
Rebecca Smith
I will raise the profile of mental health within my team, and put measures in place to ensure that we support each other and the teams' mental health
23 April
Valentina Bravova
I will attend a Mental Health First Aid training course I want to explore the main reasons, that cause this condition and how can be stopped this process people to suffer and developing this condition. What kind of prophylactic can be offered?
22 April
Tatiana Neculaes
I will ask about mental health and wellbeing during medication review
19 April
Pedro Alves Bandeira
I will ask about mental health and wellbeing during medication review and will give more time for patients to talk about themselves.
19 April
Oluwatoyin Olajide
I will ask about mental health and wellbeing during medication review
19 April
Vanessa Briggs
Leaflets posters Murs
18 April
Tazneem Anwar
I will raise the profile of mental health conditions within my team
18 April
Alice Micklewright
I will raise the profile of mental health conditions within my team
17 April
Sangeeta Rai
I will raise the profile of mental health conditions within my team
17 April
Matthew Johnson
End of last year, I identified mental health support in the community as a key area for my businesses to better service in 2018. By July 2018, my community care team will be launching our mental health hub of 3 on-site clinics in a specific setting for psychotherapist, counselors, mental health nurses and mindfulness and group therapist. This is in addition the the launch of our digital platform for mental health therapy (cCBT etc) - online, 24/7 support, accessible and affordable. The pharmacy team will work closely with our community teams and our pharmacists (me included) are in process of further specialising our mental health pharmacy knowledge in order to better support our range of community mental health services. I'd say we are doing a bit more than average!!!
16 April
Rahbeia Najeeb
I will ask about mental health and wellbeing during medication review
16 April
Mariam Janjua
I will do a Healthy Living Pharmacy health promotion campaign on mental health / wellbeing
12 April
Gurmeet Flora
Always raise issues with mental health to persons around
11 April
Emma Kelly
I will ask about mental health and wellbeing during medication review
11 April
Minal Shah
I will ask about mental health and wellbeing during medication review
10 April
Karishma Chandrahas
I will ask about mental health and wellbeing during medication review
10 April
Katie Dore
I will ask about mental health and wellbeing during medication review
4 April
Jessica Dodd
I will ask about the mental health and wellbeing of patients during medication reviews
19 March
Balazs Adam
I will keep abreast of the evidence used in mental health conditions such as depression, anxiety, bipolar affective disorder and schizophrenia and I will also attend a mental health first aid training course.
13 March
Mehjabin Miah
Support colleagues, patients, families and relatives with mental health problems by reducing the stigma attached.
11 March
Lucy Caswell
I will raise awareness of mental health with my team so we can have better conversations with our patients
27 February
Jillian Powell
I will encourage other members of my team to take part in this challenge so that we can raise the profile of mental health and wellbeing together.
26 February
Sally Read
I will continue to study as hard as I can for my Masters degree, focusing on the mental health modules. I have just started a new role as clinical pharmacist in a hospital for patients with mental illness so I will carry on trying to learn as much as I can about the difficulties these patients experience and how as a pharmacist I can help and support them.
26 February
Khadija Baxter
I will with my team have a poster and window display help promote mental health. With signpost and leaflets available. Has a healthy living Pharmacy encouraging client with mental health issue or concerns to eat healthy and exercise.
25 February
Helen Scott
I will be more willing to ask about how patients are getting on with medicines for mental health issues, just the same as I would for physical issues.
19 February
Javeria Nawaz
I will raise the profile of wellbeing within my team for example with a poster display
12 February
Diane Bullock
I will raise the profile of mental health conditions within my team
9 February
Rosemary Blackie
I will look for leaflets which I can display about mental health.
5 February
Harry Tillott
I will ask about mental health and wellbeing during medication review
5 February
Julia Faulkner
I will attend a Mental Health First Aid training course
31 January
Yutong Bai
I will be patient, supportive and understanding with everyone I encounter - you never know what they are going through.
29 January
Mohammed Sheikh
Me and my team would support patients with mental health and their family and friends in every way we can, with regular communication, discussions, leftlets and just simply talking to them to see if we can help. I pledge that me and my team would do everything we can for our patients
25 January
Amina Nadat
I will ask about mental health and wellbeing during medication review
25 January
Cheuk Ng
I will organise more presentations focused on mental health topics to be delivered to HCPs, e.g. dealing with physical health problems arising from mental health medications, pharmacological management of mania/ hypomania.
25 January
Leo Boswell
I will raise the profile of mental health conditions within my team
25 January
Tanaka Zwizwai
I will ask about mental health and wellbeing during medication review
24 January
Kar Chia
I will raise the profile of wellbeing within my team for example with a poster display
24 January
Jayne Rynn
I will ask about mental health and wellbeing during medication review
24 January
Eleanor Birnie
I will be patient, supportive and understanding with everyone I encounter - you never know what they are going through.
23 January
Helen Peters
I will raise the profile of mental health conditions within my team
22 January
Luca Massarenti
I will ask about mental health and wellbeing during medication review
22 January
Joanne Morgan
I will ask about mental health and wellbeing during medication review and raise the profile of mental health conditions within my team.
21 January
Maria Derrig
As I already work within mental health, I will try to ensure that our patients will be mindful of their physical health and seek help if appropriate as sometimes their low mental health overtakes their focus and needs for their physical health.
21 January
Craig Tibbitts
I will ask about mental health and wellbeing during medication review
21 January
Rory Killeen
I will ask about mental health and wellbeing during medication review
20 January
Anita Ncube
I aim to make myself more aware of local mental health services so that I can signpost people appropriately to them.
19 January
Wendy Hemming
I will investigate what local resources are available to ensure can signpost effectively
19 January
Holly Farr
I will raise the profile of mental health conditions within my team
17 January
Mario Oligeri
I will do a Healthy Living Pharmacy health promotion campaign on mental health / wellbeing
17 January
Sally Greensmith
We will have mental health as the topic for our next local pharmacy conference to make as many people aware of the issues as possible.
17 January
Rosie Darby
I will raise the profile of mental health conditions within my team. I am planning on doing a presentation on depression and antidepressants as part of my pre-registration training.
16 January
Karla Thomas
I will do a Healthy Living Pharmacy health promotion campaign on mental health / wellbeing
16 January
Adil Khan
I will raise the profile of mental health conditions within my team
16 January
Chigozie Okeke
I will ask about mental health and wellbeing during medication review. I will also raise the profile of mental health conditions within my team.
14 January
Amanda James
I will ask people with long tern health conditions about how they are feeling, and not be frightened to bring up mental health in consultations.
14 January
Lucy Stuart-Cross
I will ask about mental health and wellbeing during medication review
13 January
Victoria Moorshead
I will ask about mental health and wellbeing during medication review
10 January
Sonia Verma
I will be approachable so that patient's feel more confident to speak to me for advice or just general help with their condition , because the first step is always communicating.
9 January
Dipesh Raghwani
I will ask about mental health and wellbeing during medication review and raise the profile of mental health and wellbeing within my team.
8 January
Katharine Taylor
I will ask about mental health and wellbeing during medication review and I will attend a mental health first aid training course
7 January
Tracey Stockley
I will ask about mental health and wellbeing during medication review especially for newly prescribed medication, using the ICE approach
7 January
Nicholas Sherwood
I will promote discussion with other healthcare professionals about MH especially relating to the discharge process. To dispel the stigma around MH, we can improve treatments in secondary, primary care and across the interface.
3 January
Shoaib Arif
I will ask about mental health and well being during medication review.
30 December
Elena Kornilova
I will ask about mental health and wellbeing during medication review
30 December
Susan Grimwade
I pledge to raise awareness of mental health and importance of promoting both a healthy lifestyle and the 5 ways to wellbeing (Connect, Be active, Keep learning, Give to others, Be mindful) within both my workplace and with friends and family.
29 December
Andrew Bastin
I will raise the profile of mental health conditions within my team and think of ways to discuss mental health with a view to improve patient outcomes.
26 December
Kate Thacker
I will consider the impact of mental health on physical health and vice versa
21 December
Heenal Malde
I will aim to change perceptions of mental health, with my team, family and friends, by educating them on the importance of supporting those with mental health conditions, and sharing phrases to use that empower patients rather than condescend them.
21 December
Daksha Patel
I will organise a multidisciplinary education event on mental health
20 December
Sally Hughes
I will attend a Mental Health First Aid training course
18 December
Sally Rose
I will ask about mental health and wellbeing during medication review and continue to raise awareness.
18 December
Mairead Williams
I will ask about mental health and wellbeing during medication review
18 December
Shelina Shah
I will ask about mental health and wellbeing during medication review
16 December
Anthony Hunter
I will raise the profile of mental health conditions within my team
15 December
Deborah Bohor
I will raise the profile of mental health conditions within my team
15 December
Clare Hoy
See patients for depression reviews
14 December
Paramjit Sandhu
I will ask those patients walking in with a prescription for mental health treatments if they have any questions about their medicines in order to address any concerns they may have.
14 December
Stephanie Ramstedt
I will ask about mental health and wellbeing during medication review
14 December
Mona Qassim
I will raise the profile of wellbeing within my team for example with a poster display
13 December
Faiza Usama
I will do a Healthy Living Pharmacy health promotion campaign on mental health / wellbeing
13 December
Amin Osman
I will raise the profile of mental health conditions within my team
13 December
Kay Hirst
I will raise the profile of mental health conditions within my team
11 December
Abigail Readman
I will ask about mental health and wellbeing during medication review
11 December
Mussdiq Manzoor
I will raise the awareness of mental health conditions within my team
11 December
Min Teo
I will ask about mental health and wellbeing during medication review
11 December
Magdalena Kurnicka
I will do a Healthy Living Pharmacy health promotion campaign on mental health / wellbeing
10 December
Monique Ngo Nselel
provide leaflets, talking about mental health during medication reviews, share Learning with staff.
10 December
Nazmin Bi
I will raise the profile of mental health conditions within my team
7 December
