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Lights, camera, action as Colten Care home becomes film set for the day
February 03, 2012
A DORSET nursing home has doubled as a film set for the production of an internet video on how to help stroke patients outside hospital.
Professional actors joined medics at Colten Care’s Avon Reach home in Mudeford to role play scenarios in which members of the public help people experiencing strokes.
The filming will support an NHS e-learning course designed to improve the stroke assessment skills of nurses, paramedics and other health workers in the community.
The project is funded by the National Stroke Improvement Association and the South Western Ambulance Trust.
Elizabeth Benson, Colten Care Operations Manager, said: “The aim of the film is to enable a much more accurate diagnosis of strokes, especially the more subtle signs, so that stroke patients can be taken to specialist centres more quickly.”
The filming was carried out by the health and safety training company, Solutions Training and Advisory, and was overseen by Steve Shackleton, a clinical tutor at the ambulance trust.
The 56-bedroom Avon Reach is one of 18 Colten Care homes across the South providing a range of services including quality residential, nursing and dementia care.
