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Our Vision
Real help for real people: A well-coordinated system of effective treatment resources for people with eating disorders and obesity across Greater Manchester
Our vision is for Oakwood House - NWCED to play a vital and collaborative role with stakeholders across Greater Manchester, with the overall aim of improving access to high quality, timely psychological and nutritional care for eating disorders, obesity and eating and weight distress, thereby reducing the personal and social costs of these difficulties. We recognise that people with eating and weight distress are best served by flexible treatment that offers choice in therapeutic modality, timing and intensity. We provide evidence-based and cost-effective therapeutic services to individuals, families and carers.
Our Values
The Three R's: Resourceful, Responsive, Research-focussed Practice
Resourcefulness
Resourcefulness is at the heart of our work. We recruit very selectively to ensure that our team is comprised of the best workers: people who are informed, skilful, dedicated, hard-working, compassionate and down-to-earth.
In our client work resourcefulness is shown in our flexible choice of effective therapies, which can be accessed without undue waiting times. We help clients make the most of their own resilience and resourcefulness so they can achieve wellness and happiness in life.
In our work for referring GPs, we are committed to providing reliable, safe, communicative patient care, and to responding proficiently to emerging health concerns.
In our work with our NHS commissioners we provide community-based eating disorders and obesity treatment that is distinguished by innovative, evidence-based, client-centred programmes that deliver outstanding value for money and robust clinical quality.
In our consortia and partnership projects, we collaborate effectively as an active associate to coordinate and deliver superior therapeutic treatment programmes.
Finally, NWCED is one of the few community-based eating disorders programmes in the UK to provide clinical training placements for advanced psychology and counselling students, thereby helping to develop workers who can contribute to the advancement of an area of mental health care that is generally under-resourced.
Responsiveness
We are dedicated to providing therapy in a way that our clients actually want. We do this by actively gathering feedback from every client and making use of all suggestions to continually improve the service. Our dedication to responsiveness means that we aim to reply to every email and telephone call within 48 working hours. We genuinely care about improving the lives of people with eating and weight distress and their family members and carers, and always endeavour to give helpful, relevant and accurate information to all who contact us.
Research-focussed practice
Evidence on what types of treatment deliver the best outcomes for people with eating and weight distress remains inconclusive, despite attracting a broad spectrum of research interest over the past thirty years. NWCED is committed to staying abreast of developments in the research literature, and to using research findings to inform and evolve our good practice. Through regular audit and research, we conduct careful evaluation of the usefulness and effectiveness of our services and put the results forwards in conference presentations and publications. A number of masters and doctoral research dissertations have been completed with NWCED, some of which have been published. We thereby pursue the joint ethos of research-informed practice and practice-informed research.