Cumbria recently joined a number of other NHS trusts as users of the GRiST risk assessment service. After a successful training session some time ago, eGRiST returned to Cumbria to train practitioners who will then be able to train others in the use of GRiST.
eGRiST delivered a training course to members of the public at the SYDNI Centre, Leamington Spa, as part of Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust’s Recovery and Wellbeing Academy.
The GRaCE-AGE project explores the use of technology throughout the home to monitor and improve the wellbeing of older people living independently. Today, Dr Buckingham visited a smart house developed by Hft to learn about some of the latest technology available in the field.
A bathroom in the Hft Smarthouse
The GRandis Project, an international collaboration which seeks to develop a training programme for caregivers, met in Arcachon, France.
GRandis meeting in Arcachon
Imagine Independence, a mental health charity providing services to 2000 people per year, adopted GRiST in 2017. Today the eGRiST team delivered training sessions to two groups of Imagine practitioners at their Liverpool office.
eGRiST delivered a training session to Durham County Council and Aycliffe Secure Centre practitioners following their adoption of GRiST.
The NHS' Kolvin Service have recently adopted GRiST for delivering risk assessments in children's secure homes.
eGRiST meeting with the Kolvin Service
eGRiST hosted a full-day training session for mental health practitioners at Newton Rigg College, Cumbria.
Dr Buckingham attended a meeting at the Fraunhofer Institute of Technology, Germany, in a continuation of eGRiST’s collaboration with the European PICASO Project.
Nazmul Hussain is a PhD student working on autonomic adapters that will be used for GRaCE and GRaCE-AGE. His research was presented at the The International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Computer Vision 2018 is the third edition of ISCV15 and received the best paper award.