Diaspora and peer support working: benefits of and challenges for the Butabika-East London Link.

Journal: BJPsych international

Volume: 12

Issue: 1

Year of Publication: 

Affiliated Institutions:  Consultant Psychiatrist, and Chair, Butabika-East London Link, East London NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK, email davewhbaillie@gmail.com. Charge Nurse, Co-Chair, Butabika East-London Link, and Co-chair, Ugandan Diaspora Health Foundation, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK. Consultant Psychiatrist, Butabika Hospital, Kampala, Uganda. Nurse Consultant, Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK. Director of Nursing, Butabika Hospital, Kampala, Uganda. Head Occupational Therapist, Butabika Hospital, Kampala, Uganda. Life Skills and Recovery Mental Health Worker, and Co-chair, Butabika-East London Link, East London NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK. Consultant and Senior Lecturer in Social Psychiatry, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.

Abstract summary 

The International Health Partnership ('the Link') between the East London NHS Foundation Trust and Butabika Hospital in Uganda was set up in 2005. It has facilitated staff exchanges and set up many workstreams (e.g. in child and adolescent psychiatry, nursing and psychology) and projects (e.g. a peer support worker project and a violence reduction programme). The Link has been collaborative and mutually beneficial. The authors describe benefits and challenges at individual and organisational levels. Notably, the Link has achieved a commitment to service user involvement and an increasingly central involvement of the Ugandan diaspora working in mental health in the UK.

Authors & Co-authors:  Baillie Dave D Aligawesa Mariam M Birabwa-Oketcho Harriet H Hall Cerdic C Kyaligonza David D Mpango Richard R Mulimira Moses M Boardman Jed J

Study Outcome 

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Citations :  All Parliamentary Party Group on Global Health (2013) Improving Health at Home and Abroad: How Overseas Volunteering from the NHS Benefits the UK and the World. Available at http://www.appg-globalhealth.org.uk/reports/4556656050 (accessed 30 October 2014).
Authors :  8
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SSN : 2056-4740
Study Population
Male,Female
Mesh Terms
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Study Design
Cross Sectional Study
Study Approach
Country of Study
Uganda
Publication Country
England