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This film is based on a paper presented by former Cassel patients at the BIGSPD conference in June 2023, and subsequently published in the International Journal of Therapeutic Communities. Using a diary format, it chronicles their experience during a typical week in the life of an Outreach patient at The Cassel, where a strong culture of peer […]
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Supporting past patients to develop their skills and develop work as experts by experience is the main focus of the CHCT’s Service User Involvement Fund (SUIV). So we were delighted to fund past patients to attend the annual BIGSPD conference held this year in Belfast. The former outreach patient group had successfully presented at last […]
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New research has been published in BJPsych Open by the Cassel Hospital Charitable Trust’s (CHCT) collaboration between King’s College London, and the University of Bristol. The project used novel approaches to explore measures of severity of ‘personality disorder’ using routine data from electronic health records (EHRs). Novel approach to health service data Research lead Dr […]
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As Patron of The Cassel Hospital Charitable Trust, it gives me great pleasure to congratulate The Cassel on the occasion of its centenary. Founded at the end of the First World War to treat patients suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, it is a great testament to the work of The Cassel and its staff that, […]
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Staff and patients from The Cassel are working with archivists on how the hospital’s internationally important records may help in the treatment of personality disorders. The project is part of The Cassel’s centenary celebrations and centres on the exploration of documents and artefacts dating from 1919. These are kept at The Planned Environment Therapy Archives […]
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