Q&A with Sarah Adams, Clinical and Operational Delivery Lead for South West London and St George’s Estate Modernisation Team.

This week (3-7 October) we are celebrating Physician Associate Awareness Week. Physician associates (PAs) are medically trained, generalist healthcare professionals, who work alongside doctors and provide medical care as an integral part of the multidisciplinary team.

Francis Leach is one of three PAs working across the Trust. Here she tells us more about her role.

Patients who are detained under the Mental Health Act or subject to a Community Treatment Order can ask for their case to be reviewed by Associate Hospital Managers (AHMs).

At South West London and St George’s, we have over 90 junior doctors working across our inpatient and community services. Working closely with our consultant psychiatrists, they are responsible for the day-to-day medical and psychiatric care of patients.

Anti-Racism is everyone’s business. As a Trust, we are committed to becoming an actively anti-racist organisation, which challenges racist behaviours and actively works to oppose racial prejudice.

South London Listens' Be Well hubs are safe spaces for local people to turn to when they feel their mental health is low or simply to feel more connected with their local community.

It’s Clinical Audit Awareness Week! This week (13-17 June) is all about celebrating the benefits and impact of clinical audit and quality improvement work.

Carers Week is an annual campaign to raise awareness of caring, highlight the challenges unpaid carers face and recognise the contribution they make to families and communities throughout the UK. It also helps people who don't think of themselves as having caring responsibilities to identify as carers and access much-needed support.

This year Mental Health Awareness Week is shining a light on the impact of loneliness on mental health and wellbeing.

To mark the occasion we caught up with Sarah McDonald, Wellbeing Lead at Merton Uplift, which provides Talking Therapies and a range of first-line support services to people struggling with their mental health.

Teva Hesse is an architect who has been leading on the design of the Trust’s two new mental health facilities at Springfield Hospital. The facilities will sit at the heart of a new ‘Springfield Village’, which will also see the development of a new 32-acre park as well as the development of hundreds of new homes.

To mark 12 months to go until the opening of Springfield Village, we have been finding out what the development means to some of our staff, including what they are most looking forward to.

Vanessa Ford, Chief Executive of South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust talks about the practical steps we are taking in south west London to start to shift the dial around inequalities in mental health.

With nature the focus for the year’s awareness week, we caught up with Ioanna, a member of the team from Jupiter Ward to find out more about their work and what this week means to them.

Catching up with a few of the Trust Security Officers on International Security Officers Day

As I write, I can hear my neighbour’s twin girls playing in their garden. The sound is musical, the incessant chatter, squeals and laughter could be the silvery tinkle of a mountain stream on a sunny day.