Cumbria Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is a major provider of healthcare in Cumbria. Our principal activities are:
Long term conditions, including dementia, psychosis, diabetes, neurological conditions and learning disabilities
Children and young people, including health visiting, school nursing and other community health services
Recovery and rehabilitation, including brain injuries, strokes, elderly care, physiotherapy and prison healthcare
Wellbeing and lifestyle, including depression, stress and anxiety, stop smoking and sexual health
Urgent care, including mental health crisis, inpatient care and out of hours community nursing
End of life care, including palliative care services
We serve a population of almost half a million across the six districts in Cumbria and as a Foundation Trust we have over 14,000 members who are invited to have their say about their local health services.
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Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (CWP)
Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (CWP) was formed in 2002 and celebrated its 10th anniversary on 1st April 2012.
The Trust achieved Foundation Trust status in June 2007 and provide inpatient and community mental health services for children, adults and older people as well as learning disability services and drug and alcohol services across Cheshire and Wirral.
CWP also provide specialist services within Liverpool, Bolton, Warrington, Halton and Trafford and community physical care services in Western Cheshire after welcoming over 800 staff from Community Care Western Cheshire in April 2011.
CWP has over 15,000 foundation Trust members and employs more than 3,000 staff across 95 sites, serving a population of over a million people.
In the past year 2,746 clinical staff delivered care to 166,611 service users across 204 clinical services.
CWP are keen to work in partnership with patients, staff and other organisations to deliver the highest quality care to our service users and carers.
We strive for clinical excellence by ensuring there is a framework to deliver quality improvements, the safety of patients and quality outcomes for service users.
South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
We are an NHS foundation trust, providing a range of community, mental health and learning disability services in Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield.
We also provide some specialist medium secure services to the whole of Yorkshire and the Humber.
We put people who need to use our services, and their carers, at the very centre of everything we do.
We want to enable people to enjoy productive, full and independent lives in the heart of their communities.
To encourage the use of creative approaches in healthcare, which can increase self-esteem, provide a sense of purpose, develop social skills and improve quality of life, the Trust has developed an initiative called Creative Minds.
Our Creative Minds work is altering the perceptions of how we deliver our services and not only underlines our commitment to creative approaches but also provides more opportunities for individuals and groups to develop and grow creatively.
Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is the largest provider of mental health, and substance misuse services in Derbyshire, primarily serving the people of Derbyshire and Derby City which has a combined population of approximately one million.
Our Trust focuses on services for those with severe and enduring mental health problems.
These services supplement others (such as those provided in primary care) and are themselves complemented by more specialist services such as secure inpatient services provided from dedicated premises.
We provide a wide range of services which reflect the spectrum of care needs of people with mental health problems. This includes services for individuals who need support from community staff, through to inpatient, crisis resolution and more specialised services.
In addition we provide specialist substance misuse services, and community based learning disability services.
In April 2011 Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust became the provider of Children’s Universal and Specialist Services for Derby City following a successful tender process.
In addition as part of the Transforming Community Services (TCS) programme, Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust transferred into the organisation community paediatric services and substance misuse services from NHS Derby City.
In 2008 mental health service users from Genesis (Leicester City) and the People’s Forum (Leicestershire County and Rutland) embarked on a pilot research study – not only giving service users a voice but being that voice.
From the success of the study came the Service User and Carer Research Audit Network (SUCRAN), led by a Steering Group of service users and carers, with support from De Montfort University, the group now employs a Project Manager and a pool of more than 30 interviewers.
The ethos of the project is that all interviewers are service users and carers themselves. Survey participants feel supported and less intimidated being interviewed by peers and more people opt into the survey thus producing robust evidence based research and enhanced richness of results.
Our aim is to bring about, by our findings, a shift in culture toward service user centered care.
Those involved in the project derive huge benefit too. They are employed as research interviewers by De Montfort University having completed interviews, training, CRB and occupational health checks.
In additional to feeling empowered and gaining valuable work experience service users and carers are supported by peers, the project team, academics, welfare rights and have access to psychological support and interpreter services.
Every stage of the process from questionnaire design to data analysis and report writing is service user and carer led – real involvement.
NHS Choices is the UK’s biggest health website. It provides a comprehensive health information service that puts users in control of their healthcare.
The website helps users make choices about their health, from decisions about their lifestyle, such as smoking, drinking and exercise, to finding and using NHS services in England.
NHS Choices includes around 20,000 regularly updated articles. There are also hundreds of thousands of entries in more than 50 directories that can be used to find and choose health services in England.
Clare Walker is an expert in the field of domestic abuse & has been training professionals UK wide since 2006.
Clare set up the first Freedom Programme victims support group in Leicester in 2004.
Domestic abuse crosses all classes, ages, ethnicities, religions, cultures, races or lifestyles. The Freedom Programme demystifies domestic abuse in all its entirety.
This is most common in heterosexual intimate relationships, male perpetrator and female victim, but by no means solely.
The Freedom Programme model is based on human behaviours, therefore we can all identify with a lot of the tactics.
The difference in an abusive relationship is that the abuser has an agenda, which is to gain power & control of another.
The first step toward recovery is being able to identify that we’re in an abusive relationship – the Freedom Programme educates us so we can see those relationships for what there are.
MindFull is a national charity helping young people to improve and sustain positive mental health, emotional resilience and wellbeing.
We provide 11-17 year olds with tailored online support to improve their wellbeing and mental health.
Young people can access professional counselling support, expert information, advice and resources provided by mental health professionals, self help tools and peer mentoring support, in real-time, via www.mindfull.org.
We train MindFull Mentors, developing their emotional resilience, while also equipping them with tools and advice they can share with young people to improve their wellbeing.
We campaign to raise the importance of wellbeing and mental health amongst young people, parents, government and professionals.
In today’s Britain no one should ever feel under threat of verbal abuse or physical violence just because of their disability, transgender (gender identity), race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation.
The risk of being attacked or abused on the street, at work or in their own home just because of who they are remains an everyday reality for many people.
If hate incidents go unreported this fear will increase and affects people’s ability to live open and happy lives.
Stamp It Out! is a community led partnership bringing together different groups and organisations all committed to challenging, tackling and stamping out hate within Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.
The Leicester based Citizens Eye’s community news agency has a mental health news agency called How Are You Today?
The meetings take place the first Sunday of every month at the Phoenix Square Film 7 Digital Media Centre in Leicester.
The informal meetings begin at 2.00 pm and last for about an hour in the relaxing cafe surroundings.
For those who are interested in attending, the purpose of the group is really to discuss mental health and its plethora of issues, provide what personal support we can and try to address some of the discrimination and stigma that accompanies this whole area.
The meeting is open to anyone with an interest in mental health. There is no compulsion or pressure to talk and people can be as open or ‘closed’ as they wish. It is very informal.
You can find out more on our facebook page ‘How Are You Today?’ or on the Citizens Eye site
