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  • Rise of Cost of Living Drives Increases in Mental Health Demand

    23rd June 2022

    With the widely reported rise in the cost of living, mental health experts are warning of the potential impact on people’s mental health and are advising them to speak out and get help.

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  • Trust Apprentices win awards at the North West Health and Social Care Apprentice Awards

    20th June 2022

    We are proud to announce that two of our apprentices won awards at the North West Health and Social Care Apprentice Awards on Friday (June 17)

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  • We've been shortlisted for eight HSJ Patient Safety awards

    20th June 2022

    We are delighted to announce that we have been shortlisted eight times across six categories at this year’s HSJ Patient Safety Awards, recognising our outstanding contribution to healthcare.

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  • We're celebrating our Design in Mental Health Award win

    16th June 2022

    Our newly refurbished Wesham Rehabilitation Centre won the Design in Mental Health award for ‘Project of the Year – Refurbishment’.

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  • Friends and family get an insight into positive mental health care at open day

    16th June 2022

    Friends and family of service users joined us at Ormskirk Hospital for a Summer Open Day and were joined by Titch the miniature donkey and goats Ant and Dec!

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  • Appeal for Volunteers to Support our Wellbeing Helpline

    31st May 2022

    We are continuing to recruit volunteers to help support our Wellbeing and Texting Service this Volunteers Week. Over the last 12 months, our Wellbeing Helpline took over 8,000 calls with a team of 80 volunteers helping to run the support service. We are now looking to recruit further volunteers to help operate the service.

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  • Exhibition explores what it means to be human

    6th May 2022

    Inpatients and staff from our Guild Lodge Forensic Hospital in Whittingham and the new Wesham Rehabilitation Unit have come together to collaborate with students from University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) for a second time, to create a vibrant art exhibition.

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  • Lancashire teacher shares her struggles with perinatal anxiety to help raise awareness during Maternal Mental Health Week

    5th May 2022

    Lancashire teacher shares her struggles with perinatal anxiety to help raise awareness during Maternal Mental Health Week

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  • Mums shares her perinatal journey to raise awareness for Maternal Mental Health Week

    3rd May 2022

    Today is the start Maternal Mental Health Week (May 3-8). We have sat down with some mums across Lancashire who have been supported by the Perinatal Team to share their experiences with pre and post-birth mental health struggles.

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  • Familiar settings stimulate memories and conversations for dementia residents

    20th April 2022

    At our inpatient facility at The Harbour in Blackpool we have introduced everyday activity settings across our dementia wards to help residents - who are struggling with unfamiliar surroundings - feel more at ease.

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  • Our brand new mental health rehabilitation service opens in Lancashire

    1st April 2022

    We have opened the doors to our brand new £9.4m community-facing rehabilitation centre in Wesham, an integral part of our continued rehabilitation and recovery transformation work.

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  • Keen to support your local NHS?

    23rd March 2022

    Eagle-eyed volunteers needed to help develop our trust leaflets.

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