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Kirklees Insight team let nature take its course
Staff and service users from the Kirklees Insight team recently went back to their roots to learn more about food waste when they hosted a healthy eating course in a unique location. After realising how much money they were spending on renting suitable venues for …
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Health Café – Kinsley Community Centre
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Success for Barnsley staff at AHP awards
Our Barnsley staff have been recognised at the first ever South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Integrated Care System Allied Health Professional (AHP) Awards, held on Wednesday 3 July. Intermediate care lead Amy Chambers was announced as AHP leader of the year after she was nominated by …
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New service to support people with learning disabilities and autism
A new NHS service has launched to help people with learning disabilities and/or autism moving back into the community from a forensic hospital. The Forensic Outreach Liaison Service (FOLS) supports people aged 18 years and above who have a learning disability or autism (or both) …
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Trust and West Yorkshire Police working together
A new partnership between the Trust and West Yorkshire Police is helping support staff and service users on adult mental health inpatient wards at Fieldhead. The work is aimed at tackling challenging behaviour by people in our care which poses a risk to others in …
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Kirklees learning disability health team help people to become ‘Happy and healthy’ at LD week event
The Kirklees learning disability health team held their first ‘Happy and healthy’ event in celebration of learning disability week 2019. The event, open to all, was hosted at Dewsbury Minster on Thursday 20 June from 11am to 2pm. It featured a variety of activities, information …
National homelessness charity inspired by Barnsley equipment recycling service
Barnsley’s community equipment recycling service was recently visited by a national homelessness charity to see what they could learn from the successful team. Sam Larke and Clive Thomas from homelessness charity EMMAUS visited the Barnsley Integrated Community Equipment Service (BICES) at their base in Stairfoot …
New nursing associates celebrated at presentation event
The Trust held a special event on Tuesday 28 May to recognise and celebrate trainees who have now qualified as nursing associates. Following completion of their two year training programme, the new nursing associates were presented with a certificate at the event held at Fieldhead …
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Horizon Centre’s service users have their say
To offer a better experience to service users on their ward, the team at Horizon Centre in Wakefield have introduced new ways of collecting patient feedback in order to see what they’re doing well and where they could make improvements. The Horizon Centre is a …
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Mood boosting with PAT pup Miley
To mark Mental Health Awareness Week, the Trust’s library at Fieldhead in Wakefield welcomed a special furry visitor to sniff out some good reads. Tibetan terrier Miley, who’s owned by befriending project and volunteer support co-ordinator Angie Barker, visited the library to showcase a series …
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