South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust is proud to have secured a large grant from the Burdett Trust for Nursing to devise a bespoke leadership development programme for its Black, Asian, Minority and Ethnic (BAME) nursing workforce.

South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust is proud to announce that our Nursing Development team - which was responsible for the successful Trust Comedy Night as part of October’s Mental Health Month has again showcased the incredible care and philanthropy of their team.

From 4 December 2017 the Cashiers Office at Springfield University Hospital will be in a different location.

The new Cashiers Office will be a short distance from the current one, and will be accessible through  Entrance 4 of Main Building 14 (Just to the left of the current main entrance).

On 2 November 2017, South West London and St. Georges Mental Health Trust (SWLSTG) won the London Health Innovation Award for improving depression in older people care homes.

The award, which also provides a Health Innovation Grant, recognised the excellent work of SWLSTG’s Wandsworth Behaviour and Communication Support Service (BACSS).

On Thursday 2 November South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust (SWLSTG) celebrated a double win at the prestigious Nursing Times Awards. 

The Lotus Assessment Suite won the Nursing in Mental Health Award and our Wandsworth Behaviour and Communication Support Service (BACSS) was shortlisted  in the Care of Older People Award.

On Tuesday, 31 October, South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust announced the winners of the #upliftingimage 2017 digital photography competition and the close of Mental Health Month for 2017.

Our Quality Awards are back and nominations are now open!

These awards are our opportunity to recognise the exceptional work of staff who always go that extra mile to improve the quality of the services we provide to our patients.

On Thursday, 19 October, South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust and St George’s University of London, together with Baroness Sheila Hollins, celebrated the life work and legacy of Joan Bicknell with a memorial event at Springfield Hospital in Tooting, where Joan did much of her pioneering clinical work.

To celebrate October's Black History Month South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust  delighted hold a screening of the BBC documentary– Black Nurses: the Women Who Saved the NHS, followed by a Q&A discussion panel from our senior BME  SWLSTG  NHS Trust professionals.

We want to continue to work with our service users and carers, their friends and families, our local communities as well as our health and social care commissioners, other providers, and the voluntary sector from across south west London to shape our strategy for the next five years.

Think mental health can’t be funny? THINK AGAIN.

From 2 October our wards will no longer have designated smoking areas and smoking will not be permitted in any premises and grounds owned by the Trust. This will also apply to visitors and staff.

On Friday, 27 September South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust held its annual collaborative event: Communications in Mental Health – Language of the Spirit, the  Arts and Technology.  

In June 2017, Joan Bicknell died at the age of 78.

A brilliant clinician who was appointed professor of psychiatry of learning disability – the first British female professor of psychiatry – at St George’s, University of London, Joan was a life-long campaigner for the rights of people with learning disabilities, putting the disabled person and their family at the centre of each consultation.

Following the success of last year’s campaign, South West London and St. George’s Mental Health NHS Trust is celebrating October Mental Health Month with over 50 events across south west London.