Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust provides mental health and learning disability services for the people of Coventry and Warwickshire, and community health services for the people of Coventry.
We also offer some mental health and learning disability services in Solihull, serving a population of around one million people.
We also provide specialist services to people from across the West Midlands and beyond.
Our Trust has more than 4,300 dedicated staff who are working together to make a difference to the lives of everyone living in our communities, especially those using our services.
Our visions are to work for the wellbeing of the people we serve and to be recognised as the best at what we do.
We are currently undertaking the process of becoming a Foundation Trust and aim to be confirmed as a Foundation Trust by the end of 2012.
We are an NHS organisation that works closely with other health and social care providers across Devon to support the recovery of people with mental health needs.
We deliver services for:
Adults
Older people
People with alcohol and substance misuse issues
People with a learning disability
People who need forensic or secure mental health services (usually people that have come into contact with the criminal justice system)
People in Devon’s three prisons.
We also work with our partners to provide supported accommodation, vocational rehabilitation and employment opportunities.
At any one time, we provide care for around 12,000 people in Devon and Torbay.
Increasingly, our focus is on personal recovery. Working with people to understand their individual needs and goals, moving them towards recovery and independence and helping them to get on with their daily lives.
We actively support the national Time to Change campaign to end mental health discrimination and eradicate the stigma that too often accompanies mental ill health.
Dorset HealthCare University Foundation Trust provides Mental Health, Learning Disability and Community health services to the population of Dorset.
The Mental Health Directorate provides a number of services to support adults of all ages with their mental health and wellbeing. These include:
Community Services
Inpatient services
Rehabilitation and Recovery services
Addictions services
Forensic services
Prison health care services
The Directorate also provides some specialist services such as community and inpatient support for mothers and babies.
Other services such as Eating Disorder services and services to support young people’s mental health and wellbeing are also provided by the Trust, in the Children and Young People’s Directorate.
The Trust is committed to providing services which support people in their recovery and is working closely with people with lived experience, carers and third sector organisations to develop new ways of working to support this goal.
A recent development being the implementation of the fourth Recovery Education College in England.
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust was formed in April 2006 following the merger of East Kent NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust and West Kent NHS and Social Care Trust.
It provides mental health and social care services in partnership with Kent County Council in Kent. In Medway, services are not integrated but we work closely with the local unitary authority to provide joined up health and social care services.
The Trust employs 3,405 staff (plus 265 seconded staff) providing a range of mental health and other services from around 100 separate buildings across almost 90 sites.
The Trust is one of the larger mental health trusts in the country, covering an area of 1,450 sq miles and serving 1.6 million people across Kent and Medway.
The Trust’s main commissioner is the local PCT cluster, NHS Kent and Medway.
Our latest figures show that in 2010/11 over 71,000 referrals were received, 445,000 contacts were undertaken and there were over 3,000 admissions.
Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust provides community health, mental health and learning disability services across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.
The care and support we provide includes community nursing and therapy services and care on community hospital wards, service for people with severe mental health problems and healthcare in prisons.
We don’t just care for people who are ill or injured, we also support people to stay well and prevent future problems.
We serve a population of one million people and spend in excess of £262 million of taxpayers’ money each year, and employ almost 6000 staff.
Our services are organised into four operational divisions
Adult mental health services
Adult learning disability services
Families, young people and children’s services
Community health services, which includes mental health services for older people
We work with family doctors (GPs), local hospitals, social services and other local authority departments such as housing and education.
We also work with voluntary organisations, local community groups and local people.
Most people are referred to our services by their GP. We deliver our services from many different locations including hospitals, longer term recovery units, outpatient clinics, day services, GP surgeries, children’s centres, schools, health centres, people’s own home, care homes and prisons.
We continually strive to improve the services we offer to make them the very best. For more information about our services visit
LYPFT provides specialist mental health and learning disability services to people within Leeds, York, Selby, Tadcaster, Easingwold and parts of North Yorkshire.
Service users are at the heart of our organisation. We constantly strive to provide the best possible care and support, working closely with related organisations to provide effective, accessible and modern mental health and learning disability services.
Working in partnership with our local communities, our core purpose is to improve the mental health and well being of the people who use our services.
Arts and Minds is a partnership project co-ordinated by LYPFT. Arts & Minds exists to champion the vital role of creativity in promoting inclusion, recovery and mental wellbeing. We also support individuals receiving health and social care services to engage with the cultural life of Leeds.
Our primary goal is to deliver the most appropriate mental and physical health and wellbeing services wherever and whenever the people of Manchester need them.
Partnership working is key to our successes, both with other organisations in the city and, more importantly, with those who use our services, enabling them to identify and achieve their personal goals.
We are a recovery-focused organisation and have achieved national demonstrator site status for our work in this area.
We are also a leading force in mental health research, attracting more funding than any other Trust outside London, and are a key partner in Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, using our research findings to influence all that we do.
ChildLine ChildLine on 0800 1111 or www.childline.org.uk is the UK’s free, confidential helpline dedicated to children and young people. Whenever children need us, ChildLine will be there for them – 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days per year.
Georgina teaches on the three clinical short courses at the Institute of Psychiatry, providing both carer and user perspectives of recovering from Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder.
She is also an examiner for these three courses and runs workshops on the subject.
She delivers presentations to a wide variety of audiences. Her work has led to her being awarded honorary lecturer status within the Institute’s Section of Mental Health Nursing.
She also works for various universities and NHS Trusts.
We create music using your selected artwork, photography or poetry.
Once rethinkyourmind 2014/15 is complete, the 4 music singles will be available for download.
The bands and artists
These are the bands and artists that give up their time for this project. Our sincere thanks to all of them.
As lead singer with The Bluetones Mark enjoyed a 15 year recording career that produced 6 studio albums, 3 of which achieving Top 10 sales in the UK, including the #1 album ‘Expecting to Fly’, 13 Top 40 singles, and a Brit nomination in 1996.
Mark has recorded 2 solo albums and music for various side projects, including the Title and Chapter music for the 6 audio book versions of David Walliams’ children’s stories. Mark was also a judge on the Album of the Year panel for the Ivor Novello Awards.
Lucy Ward is an award winning acoustic artist from Derby. After winning the Horizon Award for best newcomer at the 2012 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, Lucy’s career has gone from strength to strength.
In 2013 it was announced that she had been nominated for the acclaimed “Folk Singer of the Year” at the 2014 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, making Lucy one of the youngest people ever to be nominated for this most prestigious award.
Her latest album ‘Single Flame’ became MOJO #2 Best Folk Album 2013.
Refuge are an acoustic band with baggage, sporting an appropriate interest in pushbikes & cheesecake!
The latest album ‘Time Together’ and new single ‘Reflections’ have been played on BBC Introducing.
Refuge are currently working on ‘Moving InWards’, with Mark Morriss, former lead singer of ‘The Bluetones’, this project aims to make live music an everyday feature on mental health wards.
Working on ‘rethinkyourmind’ 2012 was an excellent experience for the band and they are looking forward to being involved again!
Olivia Rose Deane is a Leicester based singer songwriter who has long written music and songs for herself and has recently discovered that other people like listening to them too.
As well as a few gigs and performing at Edinburgh Fringe; Olivia has also released her debut single “Sally” and getting ready to record the next.
