Welcome to the Congress

"SAFE SETTINGS"

Horatio European Congress 10-12th May 2018 in the Faroe Islands

Facebook: HORATIO - European Association for Psychiatric Nurses

Twitter: @Horatio_eu

Twitter: @FpsFaroese

“Safewards – user friendly culture change?”

Geoff is Northern Irish, did his first training as a registered nurse for Learning Disabilities and then did mental

health nurse training. Geoff has now worked in, on and around mental health wards for over thirty years. In

that time, he has been in just about every position a clinical nurse can have – health care assistant, staff

nurse, charge nurse, practice development lead, nurse tutor and nurse consultant. Occasionally he got to

work with really smart people – like professor Len Bowers. It was Len who recruited Geoff to help with the

Safewards research trial. So basically, it’s Len’s fault. Anyway, it’s all on www.safewards.net

Since 2014, Geoff has worked for the UK charity “Bright” and runs the Star Wards project

(www.starwards.org.uk) for acute inpatient wards. In this role he has continued to support Safewards with

training, cheerleading, and assisting the international dissemination of the interventions. Geoff has presented

Safewards in Australia, Brussels and many parts of the UK. He also provides the jokes for the @safewards

twitter account.

For information about the event: http://www.horatio-web.eu/

For further information and registration: www.greengate.fo/safe-settings

Keynote Geoff Brennan,

Executive Director, STAR WARDS