| Latest News |
14/08/09
Michael Rosen, ex-Children's Poet Laureate in the UK, has agreed that his commissioned poem about the NHS "These are the Hands" can join the "Poems for..." collection and be translated into different languages.
25/02/09
Hyphen-21 backs proposal for a code of professional practice for service user consultation.
|
|
14/08/09
Michael Rosen, ex-Children's Poet Laureate in the UK, has agreed that his commissioned poem about the NHS "These are the Hands" can join the "Poems for..." collection and be translated into different languages.
25/02/09
Hyphen-21 backs proposal for a code of professional practice for service user consultation.
29/01/09
The site www.poemsfor.org launched in April 2008 by Andrew Motion (see "News" 22/04/08), is being well used. Recent findings indicate a/ that the vast majority of people in UK who visited the site and downloaded the poems are school teachers; and b/ that the project is now delivering poems across the globe.
06/11/08
Hyphen-21’s AGM took place on the night after Guy Fawkes, in the week of Barack Obama’s election victory (for a poem on the election result see “New Poetry” on this site)
22/04/08
Andrew Motion helped launch a new website for "Poems for..." at the Nehru Centre in London on April 22nd
23/01/08
An online Directory of Services in Westminster - for people with mental health problems
Back to Top |
|
|
Poems for...
|
|
“I think this is a wonderful project giving people something meaningful and personal to consider, in what can be an anxious place.”
The Rt Hon Tessa Jowell, Minister at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport
“Diversity is an excellent theme, and particularly relevant to the challenges we all currently face in building a cohesive society..We would also like to order one set of your poster poems which we will use at appropriate FCO events..”
Sir Michael Jay, KCMG, Permanent Under-Secretary, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
“I am delighted to be part of your creative and beautiful project.”
Mourid Barghouti, Palestinian poet |
| Poems for... is here |
| Code of Conduct for ward rounds |
“The Department of Health welcome[s] such initiatives as the Code of Professional Conduct for Ward Rounds and Similar Meetings. [This] is an example of good practice it would want to support…”
Julie Nichols,
NIMHE
The Ward Round Code is here |
User involvement in staff recrutiment
|
Hyphen-21's model of a separate user panel “is an example of notable practice..worthy of sharing..across the NHS.”
Report by the Commission for Health Improvement (CHI)
August 2002
Consultation with the Users is here |
| Comments on Hyphen-21 |
“We feel that Hyphen-21 is doing some very important work designed to connect people to people, and people to community - their work on a code of good practice for ward rounds and their "Poems for the Waiting Room" project are particularly potent examples.”
Consumer Consultancy (Brighton)
“ I initially accessed your site as I was interested in your Poems for the Waiting Room project. However I am now really impressed by the other projects you have set up. My colleagues have also looked at your website and enjoyed the content too… We provide support and advice to drug users and their families. This involves needle exchange, counselling, access to funding for rehab, etc..I would like to express my support for your charity.”
Sheena MacKenzie,
Turning Point Worcester Druglink |
 to view PDFs |