It was a year like no other for the country, our public services - particularly the NHS - and millions of people affected, tooIt was a year like no other for the country, our public services - particularly the NHS - and millions of people affected, toooften tragically, by Covid-19. In mental health, as throughout the NHS, our people stepped forward and did all we couldto keep our patients, staff and communities safe. We are rightly proud of all our staff.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has published a report today (Wednesday, 20 October 2021) following a focused inspection of four of the adult acute wards at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.

South London Listens has been shortlisted in the Best Community Initiative category at the CorpComms Awards 2021.

In response to Covid-19, the three mental health Trusts in south London (Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLAM) and South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust (SWLSTG)) mobilised quickly, with our CCGs and local authority partners, to determine how we could protect our communities’ mental health. We have made incredible progress to form a two-year programme of prevention and recovery which will be published this autumn.

Find out more about how you can take part in workshops on the development of our community services, webinars and arts sessions marking '12 months to go' to Springfield Village, and consultations on our new digital strategy. 

Our Black Mental Health Conference – Healing Our Broken Village – will be held at the New Testament Assembly in Tooting on Thursday 28 October, from 3-7.30pm.

Congratulations  to Tafara Inniss, Charge Nurse on our Lotus Assessment Suite, who has been announced as a Rising Star of 2021 by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN).

Following World Mental Health Day, Richmond MPs Sarah Olney and Munira Wilson visited South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust (SWLSTG) to tour its services and learn more about the progress made developing new facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are set to open 12 months from now.

It’s just three months until our new model of community mental health in Sutton goes live.

The Trust has worked closely with colleagues and partner organisations across the South West London Integrated Care System to successfully fund and design the transformation of adult community mental health services over the next three years.

The theme for this year’s World Mental Health Day is mental health in an unequal world

In 2022 the Trust be launching our new 5 Year Digital Strategy, which will shape the direction of transformation for the Trust. The key theme of the Digital Strategy is digital inclusivity and codesign - so we need you to support us in outlining the key priorities and digital ambitions of the Trust and address the ways in which they can be achieved.

Black History Month, celebrated in the UK throughout the month of October, is an annual celebration of the contribution that Black African and Caribbean communities have made both locally and across the world, while remembering important people and events in history.

We are pleased to announce that Sola Afuape has been re-appointed as a Non-Executive Director at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust. Sola will continue in the role for another three years, having taken up the original appointment in August 2016.

Nominations are now open for our annual Quality Staff Awards. 

These awards recognise the hard work and dedication of our amazing staff and reward them for everything they do for our patients and their families.

South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust together with the charity Hospital Rooms have partnered with internationally renowned art gallery Hauser and Wirth to host an auction last week of contemporary art to raise funds for the co-production and installation of bespoke art at the [currently in construction] new Hospitals on the Springfield University Hospital site.

South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust (SWLSTG) brought over 100 people across the region together online last week to share insights on its achievements and challenges at its Annual Public Meeting, under the theme ‘Our place in the community’