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The Trust celebrates national volunteers’ week
The Trust held an event this week to celebrate its valued volunteers as part of national volunteers’ week. Held at Fieldhead in Wakefield, the celebration featured speeches by Trust chair Ian Black, head of volunteering services Jane Milner and from volunteers themselves about their experiences. …
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RightCare Barnsley win HSJ award
RightCare Barnsley won a Health Service Journal (HSJ) Value in Healthcare award last night in the clinical support services category. The programme, which is run collaboratively between Barnsley Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) by Barnsley Hospital and South West Yorkshire Partnership Teaching NHS Foundation Trust, helps people …
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Hear to help! – An event for those with hearing loss
‘Hear to help’ takes place on Wednesday 1 June and promises to be the biggest one yet! Now in its fourth year, ‘Hear to help’ aims to highlight the support available for people who have hearing loss problems or are deaf in the Barnsley area. …
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The Focus – our new monthly update for our partners
We’ve just launched the first edition of our brand new monthly update for our partners, The Focus. May’s update includes: News on our new chief executive, Rob Webster, who joined us on Monday 16 May. Facts and figures about our Trust. Debs Taylor’s incredible story …
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Barnsley health centre showcases local photography
A new NHS health centre is looking picture perfect after a local photographic society helped brighten up the building with their Barnsley snaps. South West Yorkshire Partnership Teaching NHS Foundation Trust officially opened Barnsley New Street Health Centre in December 2015, as part of its …
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IAPT- Mental Health awareness week activities across Kirklees and Calderdale
Many people experience problems at some point in their lives. Life changing events like losing a job, an accident, the loss of a loved one, a traumatic incident or even just moving house can lead to feelings that can be hard to cope with. Sometimes …
Our new chief executive
New chief executive Rob Webster South West Yorkshire Partnership Teaching NHS Foundation Trust’s new chief executive has taken up his post today, 16 May 2016. Rob Webster is now responsible for leading the organisation and its 4700 staff. Rob joins the Trust from the …
Transfer of children’s services in Barnsley
Our board has taken the decision to withdraw from the provision of Barnsley’s 0-19 healthy child programme, commissioned by Barnsley Council. Barnsley Council put the service out to tender last year and we were the only provider to submit a bid. Our bid was at …
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Our new visual identity and how you can help!
Our visual identity (how our printed and digital materials look) is going to be changing. In the meantime, we need your help. Our well-known strapline ‘with all of us in mind’ is staying – with the emphasis on ‘all of us’. It reflects our inclusive …
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Our members’ council election
The nominations stage for election to our Members’ Council closed on 17 March 2016. Elections will be held in Calderdale and Kirklees and information on the ballot can be found in our notice of poll. The vacant seats in Barnsley (1 seat) and Wakefield (2 …