§ FHSA and Description of Project
§ Brent & Harrow
§ Age Concern Brent—volunteers will check that elderly patients about to be discharged have a safe and secure home to go back to; follow-up visits to monitor progress.
§ City & East London
§ Tower Hamlets Health Strategy Group—a Bengali-speaking advocate and continence adviser will develop continence promotion services for Bengali women in Tower Hamlets.
§ Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster
§ St. John's Hospice—provide more and better care in people's homes, thereby reducing hospital admissions in the last months of life.
§ Ealing, Hammersmith & Hounslow
§ Fulham Good Neighbour Service—provide short-term voluntary help (for example, help with meals and practical preparation of the home) to enable vulnerable patients to be discharged whilst statutory services are being established.
§ Lambeth, Southwark & Lewisham
§ Lorrimore Centre—recruit workers to provide support to people with mental illness who have a history of repeated brief admissions.
12WA§ Brent & Harrow
§ Brent Mind—counselling centre to provide one-to-one counselling for local clients to help them cope adequately in the communinty.
§ Brent & Harrow
§ Brent Mind—provide care support worker to support 16 adults living in four housing projects.
§ Brent & Harrow
§ Brent Mind—"Training House" project, providing one-to-one support for a challenging client group at a residential community-based project.
§ Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster
§ London Lighthouse—provide home support (and subsequently some respite services) to approximately 100 elderly clients per year.
§ Ealing, Hammersmith & Hounslow
§ Alzheimer's Disease Society—provide one-stop resource for people with dementia and their carers.
§ Brent & Harrow
§ Carers' Support Brent—employ GP and practice staff liaison officer to identify ways in which primary care staff can better support carers.
§ Ealing, Hammersmith & Hounslow
§ Cancer Relief Macmillan Fund—provide a number of Macmillan nurses in different parts of LIZ.
§ Brent & Harrow
§ Brent Irish Advisory Service—assess and help develop services for alcohol misusers in Brent.
§ Greenwich & Bexley
§ Bexley Council for Racial Equality—bilingual advice/counselling service for ethnic minority communities living in Thamesmead.
§ Barking
§ Barking, Havering and Brentwood Alcohol Advisory Service—day programme to support drinkers in their need to stabilize their drinking behaviour following detox, or crisis episodes.
§ City & East London
§ Newham Mind—provide weekend and bank holiday club to support people with psychiatric problems at times when statutory services in the community are often not available.
§ Ealing, Hammersmith & Hounslow
§ Milap Day Centre—provide culturally and linguistically-sensitive day care for discharged elderly Asian clients.
§ City & East London
§ Newham Alcohol Advisory Service—provide 450 more hours per year of counselling to prevent serious consequences of alcohol abuse.
13WA§ Lambeth, Southwark & Lewisham
§ North Lambeth Day Centre—provision of specialist health care team in day centre catering for homeless people.
§ Ealing, Hammersmith & Hounslow
§ Alzheimer's Concern Ealing—intensive domiciliary respite service to provide relief for people with severe dementia and their carers.
§ Enfield and Edmonton
§ Mental After Care Association—planned respite care to carers and care receivers where there are significant mental health problems for the family.
§ City & East London
§ Turning Point—the Multisubstance Project will provide a nurse who will develop alternatives to hospital provision for problematic substance users.
§ Ealing, Hammersmith & Hounslow
§ Broadway Housing—extra member of staff to work in new house for people with mental health problems, especially from the Afro-Caribbean community.
§ Camden & Islington
§ Camden Family Services Unit—provide community mental health outreach service to refugee communities (primarily refugees from the Horn of Africa).
§ City & East London
§ Anchor Housing Trust Hospital Discharge Scheme—facilitate early discharge by making repairs and improvements to elderly people's homes.
§ Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster
§ Wytham Hall Sickbay for the Homeless—will employ extra staff to develop aftercare and support for homeless people in the community.
§ Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster
§ Mind Kensington and Chelsea—"Many Hands" scheme provides training for adults with serious recurring mental health problems.
§ Lambeth, Southwark & Lewisham
§ Lambeth Crossroads Care Attendants Scheme—Crossroads schemes provide respite relief for carers of people with disabilities in their own homes. The Lambeth scheme will now be extended to cover all of the borough.
§ Enfield & Edmonton
§ National Schizophrenia Fellowship—establish an NSF Family Support Worker in a medium-sized practice in Tottenham to work with people suffering from schizophrenia using a family intervention approach.
14WA§ City & East London
§ Newham Care and Repair—make appropriate repairs to the homes of elderly patients to facilitate early discharge.
§ Camden & Islington
§ Women's Therapy Centre, Islington—provide short-term psychotherapeutic groups workshops to women at risk of being admitted to psychiatric beds.