World Delirium Awareness Day - 15th March 2023

This year’s theme: Delirium is Everybody’s business

 

Our Delirium Team in HEENE are engaging with the initiative of WDAD2023. Our colleagues in various NHS Trusts have planned several activities on 15th March. Please have a look at HEENE website for free resources that can be used, downloaded for sharing.

If you are planning any activity, please share it with us by tagging us on social media. You can use the following hashtags:

#WDAD2023        #IcanpreventDelirium      #DeliriumReady   

and tag @MadeinHEENE

 

National and International Events

Please check the website www.Deliriumday.com

  1. Infographic competition
  2. Delirium Ambassadors – raising awareness using social media
  3. Call for videos
  4. Pass the Delirium Awareness Flag around the world
  5. There will be a live interactive Zoom Session at 2pm UK time from experts across the world discussion about WDAD and why it is everybody’s business link below

Meeting ID: 818 2064 3377

PW: WDAD2023

Zoom Link; https://ed-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/81820643377

2:00PM GMT

 

Events happening across the Region

Gateshead 
  1. Gateshead Health are having a competition for wards to participate in a delirium board – judging will be on the day with a cream tea for the winning team.
  2. We have PINCHME posters printed for all of the Wards and departments which we are handing out next week (we unashamedly, via Twitter, contacted a healthcare practitioner from outside of our region and she shared a poster she had designed which fitted in with our theme of teaching of delirium and how to prevent it).
  3. We have Comms information that has been sent out as well as a screen saver that we will have running for the full week.

Northumbria 
  1. At Northumbria Healthcare we had planned to have the giant brain in the well-being centre on Monday 13th March.  We were going to provide mini teaching sessions on aspects of A PINCH ME, have sim glasses of a deteriorating patient and have delirium videos on loop which included a patient’s story.  We intend to go ahead as planned with the giant brain. 
  2. We have created new flowcharts, guidelines and a patient leaflet which we plan to roll out during the working week of World Delirium Day. We will be visiting wards around the trust during the week to promote these new documents.  The plan is to visit different ward/departments dressed as a squid to embed the ‘different today’ message.
Middlesbrough
  1. The inflatable Brain ERIIC will be  at James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough – The education session will run from 10 am to 4 PM
Stockton
  1. Liaison team in University Hospital of North Tees planning various activities on WDAD
Tees Esk and Wear Valleys
  1. TEWV NHS FT have embedded Delirium Pathway and delivering Bite Size teaching throughout the week
Newcastle
  1. CNTW trust has developed a trust wide policy for Delirium currently out for consultation