title: Creative practice.
abstract: Beverley Hallpike, consultant nurse at Norfolk and Waveney Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust, was presented with her Innovative and Creative Practice certificate from the Queen's Nursing Institute last month for the successful completion of a 12-month project working with dementia patients. Ms Hallpike was given £6,000 funding for her new Protected Patient Engagement Time project in which visitors are excluded from the dementia ward for three hours. During this time patients receive less rushed mealtimes together with a named nurse, aimed at eliminating the risk of malnutrition.