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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Dave Baillie ,
Mariam Aligawesa ,
Harriet Birabwa-Oketcho ,
Cerdic Hall ,
David Kyaligonza ,
Richard Mpango ,
Moses Mulimira  and
Jed Boardman
Dave Baillie
Affiliation:
Butabika-East London Link, East London NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK, email davewhbaillie@gmail.com
Mariam Aligawesa
Affiliation:
Nurse, Co-Chair, Butabika East-London Link, and Co-chair, Ugandan Diaspora Health Foundation, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
Harriet Birabwa-Oketcho
Affiliation:
Butabika Hospital, Kampala, Uganda
Cerdic Hall
Affiliation:
Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
David Kyaligonza
Affiliation:
Butabika Hospital, Kampala, Uganda
Richard Mpango
Affiliation:
Butabika Hospital, Kampala, Uganda
Moses Mulimira
Affiliation:
Butabika-East London Link, East London NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
Jed Boardman
Affiliation:
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
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Abstract

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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.

Type
Thematic papers: International partnerships in psychiatry
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BJPsych International , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , February 2015 , pp. 10 - 13
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