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NHS worker honoured for 50 years service
Human resources manager Peter Burtoft has celebrated 50 years of service with the NHS Staff at a special party with colleagues at Fieldhead, Wakefield. Peter, who lives in Doncaster, started his career in Sheffield in 1959 when he joined the finance training scheme at Nether …
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NHS Trust invites Todmorden to support Festival of Wellbeing
Local residents are being invited to events at Todmorden Health Centre on Tuesday 6th October to support the South West Yorkshire Partnership Teaching NHS Foundation Trust’s Festival of Wellbeing. In partnership with NHS Calderdale’s Stress Down Day there will be a range of activities helping …
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NHS Trust hoping to stomp out the stigma of mental health
Special walks through Wakefield and Pontefract are aiming to spread the message that 1 in 4 of us will experience a mental health problem in the course of a year, but unlike other medical issues mental illness doesn’t always generate understanding and sympathy. As part …
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Art exhibition to mark the start of wellbeing festival
To mark the start of the Festival of Wellbeing the South West Yorkshire Partnership Teaching NHS Foundation Trust is inviting everyone to attend the opening of an art exhibition at Fieldhead, Wakefield on Tuesday 29th September at 5pm. The festival runs from September 29th to …
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Local people invited to 150 events designed to boost wellbeing
1 in 4 of us will experience a mental health problem in the course of a year and there are things that we can all do to help our mental wellbeing. That’s the message from the local NHS this autumn. The local provider of specialist …
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Brave Fieldhead manager makes 15,000ft leap of faith
South West Yorkshire Partnership Teaching NHS Foundation Trust employee Glenda Hartshorne has taken to the skies to do a parachute jump in support of the Prince of Wales Hospice. More comfortable on a ward than hanging out of the door of an aeroplane, Glenda, who …
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Tweet with the Trust
South West Yorkshire Partnership Teaching NHS Foundation Trust, which provides mental health and learning disability services to the people of Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield, has joined Twitter to encourage local people to keep up to date with the Trust. Twitter is a free social networking …
Specialist NHS intensive care unit runner-up at national awards
A specialist mental health service provided by South West Yorkshire Partnership Teaching NHS Foundation Trust has been named runner-up at the national PICU Team of the Year 2009 awards. The awards were hosted by the National Association of Psychiatric Intensive Care Units (NAPICU), which aims …
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Wakefield nurse wins top prize at Dementia UK Awards 2009
South West Yorkshire Partnership Teaching NHS Foundation Trust’s lead continence nurse Jane Spencer, who works at Fieldhead, has been named Dementia Nurse of the Year. The Dementia UK awards are sponsored by the University of Stirling (a recognised lead in research on people with dementia) …
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Trust says have your say on the future of national mental health care
Would you like to help shape the future of mental health services? Then why not attend a public workshop on the Government’s new mental health strategy. South West Yorkshire Partnership Teaching NHS Foundation Trust, which provides mental health and learning disability services to local people, …
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