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New £18m mental health inpatient unit opens on World Mental Health Day
Author and broadcaster Horatio Clare, who was previously detained under the Mental Health Act at Fieldhead Hospital, officially opened our new £18m mental health inpatient unit on Thursday 10 October 2019. The launch was timed to coincide with World Mental Health Day to raise awareness …
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Stoptober is back – are you ready for the challenge?
Stoptober is back and our NHS Yorkshire Smokefree service is ready to support the region’s smokers in their mission to become smoke-free. Nationally, the Stoptober campaign has driven over 1 million quit attempts and is the biggest mass quit attempt in the country. Those who …
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Ambassador role for Macmillan nurse
Katie Yockney, our Macmillan Advanced Palliative Care Practitioner in Barnsley, has been chosen to represent a national charity for their flagship charity event. Macmillan Cancer Support have asked Katie to be a Marks & Spencer Ambassador to mark their biggest fundraising event of the year, …
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Home First pilot
A trial of new partnership working arrangements is taking place around intermediate care in Barnsley. Home First is a collaborative piece of work between Barnsley Hospital, neighbourhood rehabilitation/crisis response team (intermediate care), re-ablement and social services. The main aims are to get patients out of …
Dylan’s volunteering story
Light touch volunteer Dylan explains what giving his time to help our services has given him in return. After going through bad mental health myself, I found that learning all I could about the subject helped, but what got me through it was volunteering. The …
Horizon nurse becomes clinical academic research fellow
Advanced nurse practitioner Enzo Harris has been successful in his application to become a clinical academic research fellow with the University of Huddersfield. The Trust has been working with the department of nursing and midwifery at the University of Huddersfield to develop this exciting new …
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Newton Lodge celebrates first place at regional conference!
Congratulations to staff and service users at Newton Lodge who won the Yorkshire and Humber Involvement Network competition at this year’s annual involvement conference. Competition winners were announced at the conference on 17 September at the National Coal Mining Museum, with the Bretton Centre following …
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Royal College of Psychiatrists praises dramatic cut in use of ‘restrictive practice’
The Royal College has issued a press release today (Tuesday 17 September, 2019) highlighting the 56% reduction in the use of physical restraint, seclusion and rapid tranquilisation on our Nostell ward at Fieldhead Hospital. It comes nine months after we joined an 18 month improvement …
World Suicide Prevention Day
We’re marking World Suicide Prevention Day (today, Tuesday 10 September 2019) with a huge push to reduce the amount of people dying by suicide across our region. We’re the lead partner for suicide prevention across the West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership and …
Dietitian shortlisted in national awards for tube feeding experience
Barnsley dietitian Sarah Armer has been shortlisted in the ‘Outstanding contribution’ category of the national Our Health Heroes awards. Sarah was nominated for the award after she spent four days being fed through a naso-gastric tube to better understand her patients’ experiences. Having been a …
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