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REMEMBERING ROSEMARY
Family and friends of a learning disability nurse are remembering her in a special way whilst also officially welcoming a new assistant chaplain to Fieldhead, Wakefield. The Bishop of Wakefield, Rt Revd Stephen Platten will be conducting a service at South West Yorkshire Mental Health …
MIND OVER MATTER
A daring Huddersfield community psychiatric nurse (CPN) has raised over £3000 in spectacular style by taking on the gruelling challenge of trekking 90km through the Peruvian Andes. Rita Hinchcliffe, who works in Huddersfield as a CPN for the South West Yorkshire Mental Health Trust, spent …
CALLING ALL CARERS!
14th –20th June is Carers Week and National Men’s Health Week and NHS staff in Dewsbury are holding a special event to mark both these important weeks. Staff at the Priestley Day Unit, run by the South West Yorkshire Mental Health NHS Trust, are holding …
AIN’T NO MOUNTAIN HIGH ENOUGH!
An intrepid group of information services staff in Wakefield have raised over £500 pounds for mental health services. The group of staff who work for the South West Yorkshire Mental Health NHS Trust, along with their friends and family completed a gruelling trek to the …
CHANGES TO OLDER PEOPLE’S SERVICES WELCOMED
Service users and staff have welcomed changes to mental health services for older people in Wakefield. The changes mean that older people are getting the most appropriate care, in the most appropriate setting – which is usually not a hospital environment. In a move away …
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A THOUSAND THANKS
The daughter of a well-known local man is thanking hospital staff for the care they gave to her father by presenting them with £1000. Valerie Dickinson’s father, Fred Wood, died last October aged 90. He had developed manic depression in later life and spent 18 …
ONE IN FOUR
People who use mental health and learning disability services across the Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield areas will be amongst the first in the country to benefit from a new scheme. The South West Yorkshire Mental Health Trust has been selected as one of only four …
AWARD SUCCESS
Service users, carers and staff in Wakefield are celebrating, after winning an award at the first ever West Yorkshire Modernisation Awards. Direct Impact, a service user and carer research group, from the South West Yorkshire Mental Health NHS Trust beat off competition from two other …
A FOND FAREWELL TO KAY
Members of health staff from across South Kirklees are expected to turn out in force on Friday (19th March) to bid a fond farewell to Kay Singh who is holding a special event to mark her retirement. Kay has worked for the South West Yorkshire …
AWARD HOPEFULS
Service users and staff have got their fingers firmly crossed in the lead up to the first ever awards for NHS staff in West Yorkshire. Direct Impact, a service user and carer research group, from the South West Yorkshire Mental Health Trust have been short …