Mental Health Care news

Our new 80 bed mental healthcare site in Mossley Hill is now just 200 days from completion, with its roof on and interior works progressing. To mark this, Trust leads went on site this week for a ‘topping out’ ceremony. Trish Bennett, our CEO designate, toured the works and said: “It’s looking fantastic, there’s really great progress being made.”

Following on from learning from incidents, there was an online session recently on management and support for patients presenting with psychosis. A task group has been set up to look at pathways, provision and processes which will result in multiple working groups looking at how we continue to do what’s working and improve what isn’t, to make things safer for our patients.

Agnes Chandia Baku, Chief Nursing Officer from Ministry of Health, Uganda, was welcomed to the Trust on 15 July by Jenny Hurst, Deputy Director of Nursing and Sandra O’Hear, Deputy Nurse Strategic Lead for Safeguarding. The visit was initiated by Justine Kigozi Nakimuli Odwongo, Freedom to Speak Up Guardian and Cultural Sensitivity Lead.

Simon Graham and Kathy Curtis from our Psychotherapy and Personality Disorder Service join Dr Dixon and Dr Berezin in a podcast to discuss the use of a local case management team and a combined day treatment and crisis service for patients with borderline personality disorder.