The All Wales  Forum for
Senior Nurses in Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Home Page.

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• Introduction
• Activities
• Current Agenda Items
• Next All Wales Forum Meeting
• Documents
• Contact
• Membership

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Introduction

Hello. Welcome to the All Wales CAMHS Senior Nurse Forum homepage. If you've been looking for us, we hope it didn't take too long to find us at this URL (w.w.w. address). We also hope this gives you some useful information.

We first met in 1993 with a brief to share good practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health nursing. Each member of the forum is a senior nurse with clinical and management responsibilities for an NHS Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service in Wales, a principality of the United Kingdom. All the CAMH Services in NHS Wales are represented.

Initially, the Forum just provided a venue to its members for information exchange and support, but over time our workload, reputation and influence has grown. For example, we have co-opted membership of the Welsh Nursing and Midwifery Committee, and have been invited to provide expert evidence to the Carlile Review of safeguards for children in Welsh National Health Service provision ('Too Serious a Thing' NAW 2002). Forum members also sit on the Implementation Group and sub-groups of the Welsh Assembly Government's Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service Strategy and the CAMHS and medicines groups of the Welsh National Service Framework for Children.

We were re-constituted in 1999 as a subgroup of the Nurse Executive Wales group and have had support from the Office of the Chief Nursing Officer in Wales since our beginning. The Forum has no direct funding, (i.e. no income), but we are supported directly by the National Health Service Trusts that employ us.
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Activities

We meet quarterly and develop a work-plan for the coming year at each Annual General Meeting. Once a year we have a joint meeting with our senior nursing colleagues in Children's Nursing.

We've developed standards and an audit tool for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Nursing in Wales -  'Nursing in Action'. These are referred to in the CAMHS Strategy Document "Everybody's Business". The Forum reports to the Nurse Executive Wales group on these standards annually.

We organise an annual training day which is provided free of charge to staff working in Services represented by the Forum's membership. We are planning this years event for November which will focus on nursing skills and will be held in Mid-Wales.

'Principles to Practice', the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Nursing response to the Welsh Assembly Government's nursing strategy 'Realising the Potential' is now available. The Welsh Assembly Government and Nurse Executives Wales are signed up to the ambitions and strategic direction for CAMHS nursing in Wales, as set out in this document, for the next ten years.
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Current agenda items include:

The role of Consultant Nurses in CAMHS.
The new Mental Health Bill for England and Wales.
Developments in CAMHS education.
New Health commissioning structures in Wales, and professional advisory mechanisms.
Implementation of the Welsh CAMHS Strategy.
2004's Training Event
Welsh CAMH Service's progress against the Nursing in Action standards.
The role of Nurse Prescribing in CAMHS and nurse led services.
The Welsh National Service Framework for Children.
The current Nursing and Midwifery Council consultation on the NMC register.

Next Meeting

Friday 26th September 11am to 3pm, Mansion House, Bronglis Hospital, Powys.

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Documents

We regret that our key documents are not downloadable from this site. The 'Nursing in Action' standards and audit documents are available from the Forum Chair at the address below. The Welsh CAMHS strategy and 'Principles to Pracitice' documents are available from The Office of the Chief Nursing Officer, Welsh Assembly Government Buildings, Cathays Park, Cardiff. CF10 3NQ or on-line from the WAG website, http://www.wales.gov.uk/keypub/index.htm
We expect the Welsh National Service Framework for Children to be published by January 2004.
 

Everybody's Business            Principles to Practice

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Or telephone 01633 436831  (+44 1633435831 if calling from overseas). Sally Rushforth - Secretary.

Or e-mail Mr Geoff Lee, Senior Nurse for the Swansea Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, at: swanz777@btopenworld.com
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Andrew Cresswell, Forum Chair, Co-opted Member - Clinical Service Manager, Gwent CAMHS.
andrew.cresswell@gwent.wales.nhs.uk

Sue Gregory -  Welsh Executive Nurse Committee Member
sue.gregory@bromor-tr.wales.nhs.uk

Peter Meredith-Smith - Nursing Division of the Welsh Assembly Government
peter.meredithsmith@wales.gsi.gov.uk

Mick Fisher - Health Professions Wales
mick.fisher@hpw.org.uk

Geoff Lee -  Clinical Nurse Manager, Trehafod, Swansea CAMHS.
swanz777@btopenworld.com

Jane Harris - CAMHS Manager, Pembrokeshire and Derwen CAMHS
jane.harris@pdt-tr.wales.nhs.uk

Steve Riley - Senior Nurse, Cedar Court Adolescent Unit, Colwyn Bay, Conway and Denbighshire CAMHS.
steven.riley@cd-tr.wales.nhs.uk

Cynthia Smout - CAMHS Community Nurse Specialist, Powys CAMHS
cynthia.smout@powys-tr.wales.nhs.uk

Julie Morris - Senior Nurse Manager, Brynfynnon, Pontypridd and Rhondda CAMHS.
C/O elaine.simpson@cardiffandvale-tr.nhs.uk

Elaine Simpson - Senior Nurse Manager, Harvey Jones Adolescent Unit, Cardiff and Vale CAMHS.
elaine.simpson@cardiffandvale-tr.wales.nhs.uk

Ria Stanley - Ward Manager, Hergest Unit, Bangor, Gwynedd. North West Wales Trust.
ria.stanley@nww-tr.wales.nhs.uk

Barbara Norris - Co-opted Member, Senior Nurse, CAMHS (Community),
Cardiff and Vale Trust, Penarth Family Centre, Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan