The January edition of the GP newsletter is now available. This includes:

• New model of community care in Sutton starts in January 2022
• East Wandsworth CMHT Changes Update
• Wellbeing skills for families, friends and carers

In January we celebrated the work of our Peer Engagement Facilitators, who have been working as part of the Trust’s Involvement Team for the past 12 months. The Involvement Team is a small team comprised of people who have lived experience of mental health issues and of using mental health services. They help to make sure that our services and policies are led and shaped by the people best placed to know what works: people who use mental health services, their carers, family and friends.

South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust is delighted to announce that South London Listens has been shortlisted for Most Impactful Project Addressing Health Inequalities at the HSJ Partnership Awards 2022.

As works have continued at pace in 2021 on the development of Springfield Village, our construction partners will be closing down the building sites at Springfield Hospital for the festive break.

We have services open throughout the festive period offering mental health support and advice to people in south west London.

It was a pleasure to welcome Emma Wadey, Deputy Director of Mental Health Nursing at NHS England and Improvement (NHSEI) to Springfield Hospital last week.

Last Friday (10 December), Emma met staff taking part in the new Professional Nurse Advocate (PNA) training programme which NHSEI launched in March 2021, towards the end of the third wave of Covid-19.

On 9 December, Sir Robert McAlpine and South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust were invited to deliver a virtual talk focussed on mental health within the construction industry to Level 2/3 plumbing, electrical and carpentry students at Carshalton College.

Arts and mental health charity Hospital Rooms has today launched its most ambitious project to date in partnership with South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust. As part of the development of two new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, 20 major artworks have been commissioned to transform how hospital wards are experienced by patients and service users.

South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust has applauded its staff and teams by announcing the winners of its 2021 Quality Awards.

South West London and St George’s Mental NHS Trust has received the results of the CQC 2021 NHS Community Mental Health Survey, a national survey which looks at the experiences of people who use community mental health services.

The first of hundreds of new trees was planted last week at Springfield University Hospital in Tooting.

South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust and its partners are working to create a new ‘Springfield Village’, which will include the development of a new tree-lined public park, mental health facilities and new housing for south west London.  

South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust is celebrating five years since the opening of its Lotus Assessment Suite at Springfield Hospital in Tooting. The award-winning service, which was the first of its kind in the UK, opened its doors in November 2016 to provide an alternative to A&E for adults who need emergency mental health care.

Wandsworth MPs, Fleur Anderson, Marsha de Cordova and Rosena Allin-Khan toured South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust last week, visiting the Trust’s deaf service and the construction site of its new mental health facilities.

The perinatal mental health service at South West London and St George’s Mental NHS Trust has been praised by Richmond MP Sarah Olney for the work it is doing to successfully support new mothers who struggle with their mental health.

Actor David Harewood MBE joined Kojo Bonsu, a peer involvement worker at South West London and George’s Mental Health NHS Trust, for a special event organised by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) during Black History Month.