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Kirklees recovery college given Volunteering Quality Award
Kirklees recovery college in Mirfield has been commended for its volunteering by being given the Kirklees Volunteering Quality Award. This local award, managed by Volunteering Kirklees, is awarded to organisations to show that they involve volunteers in ways that have been agreed as good practice …
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Enabling mothers during inpatient stays
A stay on a mental health ward can be a stressful and disruptive time for both service users and their families. A team of our occupational therapists (OTs) wanted to show how occupational therapy can support mothers and families during their time on a ward. …
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Mental health support for perinatal women
Perinatal women across Calderdale and Kirklees will now have easy access to information on how to get help for mental health issues that present themselves during pregnancy and after their baby is born. We’re working together with Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust to ensure …
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Trust recognised for customer-centred care
We’re celebrating being successfully re-accredited against the Government’s customer service excellence (CSE) standard for the fourth year in a row. The standard is a nationally recognised award for good practice across a range of criteria including understanding customer needs, staff professionalism and attitude, delivery outcomes and …
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Community nursing transformation
A challenge from commissioners to work in a new way has presented an opportunity for nurses in Barnsley to restructure and re-vitalise our service offer. Locally Barnsley is changing with a growing emphasis on home and community care that meets the needs of an ageing …
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Recovery college launch new courses to help recovery and reduce stigma
More free courses to help those with mental and physical health conditions are being launched at Wakefield and 5 Towns recovery college, run by South West Yorkshire Partnership Teaching NHS Foundation Trust. To reduce the stigma attached to issues, the college is offering classes to …
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Wakefield health and wellbeing services
Wakefield Council has informed the Trust that when its current contracts to provide health and wellbeing services in the district end on 30 September 2016 they will not be renewed in the present form. Some elements are to be procured under a new specification. The …
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Cancer survivor organising charity concert
A cancer survivor and her colleagues, who all work together at South West Yorkshire Partnership Teaching NHS Foundation Trust, are aiming to raise more than £1,000 for charity by holding a concert in Barnsley. Kerry Vernon, from Barnsley, is the Trust’s pension manager and has …
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Government funding awarded to Trust’s places of safety
The Government has announced that South West Yorkshire Partnership Teaching NHS Foundation Trust and Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust have been jointly awarded £422,000 for health-based places of safety in Calderdale, Kirklees and Leeds to support those in mental health crisis. The money will fund …
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Tele-health improving quality of life
New figures released by South West Yorkshire Partnership Teaching NHS Foundation Trust show that its telephonic health services in Barnsley are making big improvements to patients’ quality of life. They have also contributed to saving the NHS money through less people attending accident and emergency …
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