Archive for the “Barnsley” category
Barnsley adult learning disability health service
This service is a community health service for people with learning disabilities who need support to improve health and wellbeing. It includes psychiatry, psychology, specialist learning disability nursing, therapists and an intensive support team with many different skills. The team provide specialised support to people …
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Neighbourhood nursing service
The neighbourhood nursing service is essential in preventing unnecessary admission to hospital. Community matrons provide case management for individuals within community settings who have complex long-term conditions requiring support from both health and social care services. Community matrons are responsible for providing service users with …
Creative Minds radio with Phoenix FM
What’s it about? Do you have an interest in radio or want to give exposure to music and recordings you have made? Then this project is for you. There are also opportunities to learn more about recording, editing, internet radio, and sharing ideas. Who’s it …
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Community musculoskeletal service
The community musculoskeletal service (MSK) aims to provide a specialist triage and assessment service for MSK referrals in Barnsley. The service aims to provide the best options for care, ensuring patients are seen by the most appropriate healthcare professional, at the appropriate time and in …
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Cross the Sky Theatre Company – Barnsley Civic
Cross the Sky Theatre Company is a company of adults with learning disabilities who create new and innovative theatre performances and artwork. Our aim is to give the members of our company an opportunity to share their voice, thoughts and feelings in a public, mainstream …
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WCCA – health and wellbeing project
Worsbrough Common Community Association (WCCA) delivers a range of community activities that address physical and mental health inequalities. In the last census 17.8% of residents living in our area described their health as ‘not good’ (national 9.2%). The activities we run aim to improve this, …
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Newton Lodge (The Yorkshire Centre for Forensic Psychiatry)
Newton Lodge (also known as The Yorkshire Centre for Forensic Psychiatry) is a 90 bed medium secure hospital based at Fieldhead in Wakefield. The service provides care and treatment for women and men with mental health problems and men with a learning disability from across …
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Health inclusion team (HIT)
The health inclusion team aims to support individuals who experience multiple overlapping risk factors for poor health (such as poverty and complex trauma), experience stigma and discrimination, and are not consistently accounted for in electronic records (such as healthcare databases). These experiences frequently lead to …
Paediatric therapy service
The paediatric therapy service aims to enable the child to maximise their potential, in all aspects of daily life. The service works in close partnership with families, carers, schools, nurseries, and other professionals. Paediatric therapists see children in clinics, children’s centres, nurseries, schools and in …
Newhaven low secure learning disability service (Wakefield)
Newhaven is a low secure service providing 16 beds for males with a learning disability based at Fieldhead in Wakefield. In addition to inpatient beds, the service provides an outreach service which supports people to integrate back into the community. Newhaven provides high quality assessment …
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