Mental Health Care news

Modern matron Tonia Smith was one of the first to view the new wellbeing service at Mossley Hill this week. Tonia, along with the site estates team Deana Huizer and Margy James joined the construction workforce on site at the launch of their immersive mental health ‘pod’. Set up with beach sand and a seaside feel, the virtual reality service from our partners is a way for a traditionally hard to reach group – construction workers – to access health and wellbeing at work.

Prof Nav Kapur has been involved in two new reports.

Brook Place addictions service, has a lot to celebrate as it’s the only service in England not only to micro-eliminate Hep C amongst service users, and retain elimination for eight months, but more significantly to have tested virtually all of the people who access the service, not just those people who have a history of injecting.

Professor Nic Wilson, Professor Dan Joyce, Assistant Chief Executive Alison Walshe and Chief Executive Officer Joe Rafferty were given a tour of our new suite by Consultant Psychiatrist at the service, Richard Barnes.

The team developing training on self harm support want to share news of a great partnership with a community forensic service user: bringing lived experience into the design stages for the first time.