Addresses of Dramatherapy Scotland’s Management Committee members are as follows:

Dramatherapy Scotland T-Shirts!

NEW and IMPROVED DTS T-Shirts.

Help to support DTS wherever you go by buying your very own Dramatherapy

Scotland T-shirt.

T-Shirts now come in Black with White writing or White with Black Writing and are up-to-date (not as in the picture shown which says 1999-2000).

If you are interested, please send a cheque for £10 made payable to ‘Dramatherapy Scotland’ to Elinor Vettraino at the address on the front of this

newsletter.

Trestle Masks!

DTS have purchased a set of Trestle Masks with an accompanying Teacher’s Pack and video. These are kept at the Chair’s address (see bottom of this page) and can be rented out by Dramatherapy Scotland members. They must be booked in advance with 3 week’s notice, along with the member’s name, address and dates needed (up to 3 weeks). A cheque deposit of £20.00 should be made payable to ‘Dramatherapy Scotland’ and this will be returned on the safe return of the goods. This is because the masks are

expensive and may be in demand.

Building Strong Foundations

From Rhetoric to Reality

This conference was held in May 2002 and launched the Patient Focus and Public Involvement Framework with NHS staff, voluntary and community

sector organisations and patients/public. A number of events are now being held throughout Scotland in order to build on the work of this conference. The aims of the events are to support the development of local sustainable frameworks for Patient Focus and Public Involvement and provide opportunities to share experiences and learning between health

services and their community planning partners. The next 2 events are being held in Stirling (4th Nov) and in Edinburgh (12th Nov). For more information contact the Convention Management Service on 0131 623 2533.

Feedback on the Allied Health Professions

(AHP) Scotland: Joint Future Conference,

25th October ‘02

For detailed information on the Scottish Executive Joint Future Unit see

www.scotland.gov.uk/health/jointfutureunit

The joint future aims are to enable health, social services and housing to work together in a holistic, multiagency approach to care in the community, to have a single shared assessment, to have joint resourcing and joint management and to increase its current budget from £24M to £48M (£1M towards AHP and the first 12 AHP Consultant posts. These will be within the next 2 years and operated within local authorities).