Mental Health Champions Development Programme: Sandra Walker

The Mental Health Champions Development Programme was developed to put education into acute settings to improve the care of people with mental health problems, and support staff in dealing with them.

Portsmouth City NHS Trust (as was) and Portsmouth Hospitals Trust collaborated to put this programme together, which then became part of the learning and development requirements for staff. The model was so successful that it is currently being extended to other clinical areas through research at the University of Southampton.