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Dementia Friendly Lindley event taking place on 21 January
Did you know it is estimated that there are over 5,000 people living with dementia in Kirklees? South West Yorkshire Partnership Teaching NHS Foundation Trust is working with the Kirklees Dementia Action Alliance (KDAA) and other partners by holding an event to raise awareness of dementia …
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£10m-a-year contract win to provide children’s healthcare
Our Trust is one of four healthcare providers to be awarded the £10m-a-year Kirklees healthy child contract. Kirklees Council, working with NHS North Kirklees and NHS Greater Huddersfield clinical commissioning groups, has awarded the healthy child programme contract to a partnership of local providers. Working …
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New director of strategy
Salma Yasmeen is South West Yorkshire Partnership Teaching NHS Foundation Trust’s new director of strategy. She is a mental health nurse by background, with a strong track record in transformation and innovation. Most recently Salma spent over five years at King Fahad Medical City in …
Festive message as smoking continues to decline across Yorkshire
Yorkshire Smokefree is running a Christmas campaign to help smokers to quit. It comes as new figures show up to 20% of smokers in some areas have ditched the cigarettes over the past four years on record. The service is run by South West Yorkshire NHS …
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Nova and Trust to run Wakefield social wellbeing service
Wakefield Council has chosen Nova Wakefield District Limited and South West Yorkshire Partnership Teaching NHS Foundation Trust’s joint bid to deliver a new social wellbeing service in the district. Nova and the Trust will work in partnership to deliver this innovative service to support local …
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Fieldhead master plan update
Our £16m project to transform mental health services in Wakefield continues apace. We are redeveloping two adult acute mental health wards and one older people’s ward at Fieldhead. Patients will benefit from new purpose built facilities with a modern therapeutic environment. Earlier this month staff, …
Health integration team
Recent changes mean that people arriving to live in Barnsley from overseas are no longer automatically picked up by our health integration team (HIT). This is because Flag 4 data which was previously supplied centrally via the Family Health Service Authority is no longer being …
Helping women recover faster in secure services
Women receiving care in our medium secure facility, Newton Lodge, are recovering more quickly than ever before thanks to an innovative new approach to care. This has seen a typical stay drop by an impressive 3.4 years since 2015. When a major renovation of the …
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Older people’s services in Calderdale working on Care Closer to Home
The Trust’s older people’s services are engaged closely with primary care and other stakeholders in Calderdale as part of the Vanguard Integrated Community Model. We are working on a similar model of Care Closer to Home in Calderdale as we have in operation in Kirklees, …
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Helping people with autism get access to care and have a positive patient experience
Our Trust is leading the way in helping people with autism to access treatment. Many people with autism can experience difficulties with ‘unfriendly’ environments. For example, patterns, bright colours or fluorescent lighting can be distressing. Our new checklist for autism-friendly environments, which has just been …