Recent Success Stories

Share your success stories with us - no matter what you do, large or small, we want to hear about it.

If what you are doing to helps improve dignity in your place of work others will probably benefit from hearing about it. Please email your examples to dignitychampions@dh.gsi.gov.uk

Read the success stories below which have recently been sent in from champions.

• 'Personal Recommendations' of Care Homes
  A dignity champion has set up an initiative that encourages 'personal recommendations' of care homes. This is encouraging participation from the residents, relatives, visitors and staff of care homes...
• Door knockers for all bedroom doors
  Stratford Court residnetial home, owned by the Order of St John Care Trust have set a programme in motion to personalise the environment for residents. Door knockers were bought for all of the bedroom...
• Lorraine Oswick, Community Inclusion Facilitator for Learning Disabilities
  Lorraine Oswick is a Community Inclusion Facilitator for Learning Disabilities in Stowmarket. Lorraine has been recognised for excellent service and ability to provide dignity in care. One excellent...
• Andrea Bultitude, Adult Care Services
  Andrea Bultitude was a runner up for the Suffolk Dignity in Care Award 2009. Andrea is known within her team as being a committed member of the night team, within her role she promotes and maintains...
• Marion O'callagha, Adult Care Services
  Marion O'callaghan of Adult Care services has been recognised as treating all individuals with dignity and respect and constantly delivering person centred care. Colleagues feel that Marion enables...
• NHS Oxfordshire Dignity Advert
  NHS Oxfordshire recently ran this newspaper advertisement promoting people's rights to dignity, privacy and respect under the new NHS Constitution.
• North Yorkshire Case Study
  Take personal responsibility for challenging services that do not respect dignity. Include respect for dignity in all job descriptions. Work into objectives, inductions & performance appraisals....
• Airedale Case Study
  S.T.E.P. - (SEAMLESS TRANSITION of ELDERLEY PATIENTS) PROJECT.
• Kirklees Case Study
  Raising Awareness - Cheers!! In Kirklees we launched a poster and mat campaign to promote the dignity in care agenda by highlighting the 10 points of the dignity challenge on the back of a beer / coffee...
• West Midlands Skills for Good Practice
  Within Skills for Care West Midlands we are continuing to promote the Dignity challenge throughout the special care workforce in the region. We aim to promote the challenge at every meeting we hold or...
• West Midlands Southern Cross Good Practice Guide
  The dignity challenge is a focus for Southern Cross Healthcare and has been for some 12 months now. We have 750 champions have signed up with the department of health in England so far and it is growing...
• East of England Tackling Stigma in Dementia through Creativity
  This project, led by Cambridgeshire County Council, was the winner of the Eastern Region Dignity in Care campaign last year. The basis of the project is that everyone has a unique experience both of...
• East Of England Finishing Touches - Careforce Group
  Careforce is a Domiciliary Care Provider, based in Stevenage, which 93,000 hours of care delivered per week to 49 Local Authorities. A programme to give everyone a taste of something exciting to work...
• East of England Lessons from Sweden
  Sweden was selected for the visit because of its acknowledged good record in supporting Older People to live at home independently. In particular, the Swedish way of managing dementia care, acute and...
• Lincolnshire Hospitals
  With all the pressures upon healthcare providers in the NHS regarding finances and standards of clinical care & treatment, how do hospitals maintain the whole patient experience and within their existing...
• Chesterfield Hospital
  Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has been well profiled as an example of achieving same sex accommodation standards across the hospitals wards as well as their emergency management unit....
• Radford Care Group
  The Radford Care Group (a registered charity) offers care, respect and support for older people in the community.
• Sing for Life Project Equal Arts/Silver Belles
  The Silver Belles, a group of 9 older women singers are involved in a project encouraging singing in residential care homes in two homes in County Durham and Newcastle.
• Feedback from Dignity Event Gateshead
  The first Privacy and Dignity Conference was held in the Trust on 11 June 2009. The day was very well attended with representatives from the nursing teams across the Trust. Admin services, physiotherapy...
• Dignity In Care In Middlesbrough 2009 Awards
  For the second year running Middlesbrough Council Department of Social Care celebrated a Dignity in Care Awards event. The event was organised by the Social Care Workforce Development Unit who invited...
• Pondsmead Nursing and Residential Home
  Ponsdmead is a residential and nursing home based in Somerset providing short and long stay care and support to over 50 residents. Through their work on dignity in care pondsmead have introduced a series...
• Moondancer Dignity In Care
  Moondancers work includes providing a 'mobile cinema' for care home residents. Using a large library of films, they 'tailor make' an event using vintage film that is lively and entertaining.
• Dignity Day at United Hospitals Bristol
  The day was arranged as a drop in event with stalls set out around the venue displaying the information. Each stall was supported by someone able to discuss what was being done and there was tea and coffee...
• Work of the Dignity Champions in Brighton and Sussex University NHS Trust
  Over the past four years the Trust has developed a well established network of 92 Older People's Champions, two for every ward and department in the Trust. These are usually nurses and healthcare assistants,...
• Community Health Buckinghamshire Essence of Care
  Dignity represents an individual's innate right to respect and ethical treatment. Community Health Buckinghamshire has been developing the profile of Essence of care within community teams by streamlining...
• Age Concern Trafford - Silver Surfer Project
  The Silver Surfer project assists older people to learn how to use a computer through a number of courses run by our staff and volunteers across the Borough.
• Dignity Challenge Poem
  Vicki Lines, Senior Staff Nurse submitted this poem to the Nursing Times The 'Dignity Challenge' is highlighted in this verse, To enable you, on cardiac Wards, to become a better nurse. Sign up...