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Blackpool played host to LSCft’s annual Time to Shine awards last week as colleagues, service users, partners and sponsors descended on the town’s iconic Winter Gardens for a night of celebration to mark the outstanding work carried out by the Trust over the last 12 months.

We’re proud to announce that our Reconnect: Care After Custody Team won the gold award for Adult Services Team of the Year at the Social Worker of the Year Awards in London on Friday (8 November 2024).

We recently held our first remembrance service since taking over our site in Whalley, formerly known as Calderstones, to honour the site's history as a former military hospital and those across Lancashire and South Cumbria who have given their lives, ahead of Remembrance Sunday.

Have you accessed crisis care via the NHS 111 mental health service?If you have used the service, NHS England would like to hear your feedback about your experiences and the support you received.

People in Lancashire and South Cumbria have been given two further opportunities to discuss health and care services with NHS leaders in the region following a recent series of successful events.

The horticultural work of a team of patients and colleagues from our Guild Lodge Grow Your Own (GYO) project has been praised at a North West Britain in Bloom event.

Op Courage, the NHS veteran mental health and wellbeing service, is offering some top tips to help people on Bonfire Night, which we know can be triggering for veterans or those in active service, particularly if they suffer with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

This week (Monday 11 November to Friday 15 November) is Psychological Professions Week, which is a brilliant opportunity to bring together psychological professionals, policy makers, and the public to connect and share their learning to maximise the benefit of the psychological professions to the communities they serve.

The new five days of intensive face to face induction training was delivered to our new internationally educated nurses (IEN) for the first time last week.

More than £5,000 has been raised for a mental health charity in Cumbria thanks to 19 Trust colleagues who recently took on the five peaks challenge.

At Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust, every day is Mental Health Day. But today is World Mental Health Day and the theme this year is work place health. Danny works for us and is sharing his story of hope.

Mental health is what we do at Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (LSCft) so we want people to get talking about it and its importance in the workplace.