Following NHS England’s publication of the new Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) which introduces a fundamental shift in the NHS’s approach to responding to patient safety incidents, our Trust has set up an implementation group to take this forward.

Our Coral Mental Health Crisis Hub is changing how it works.

We want to let you know about this change, but you don’t need to do anything differently. Patients and health and care colleagues can continue to access our crisis services via the 24/7 Mental Health Crisis Line on 0800 028 8000.

Richmond Wellbeing Service cares for our communities in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, providing support with conditions such as depression and anxiety using talking therapies.

Last Thursday (24 November) the Trust held its staff Quality Awards ceremony, an annual celebration which recognises and celebrates the outstanding staff working across South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.

Tuesday 29 November, 9am

The issue with our PALS phone number 0203 513 6150 has now been resolved. Thank you for your patience while we worked to fix it.

As part of the exciting transformations happening across South West London and St George’s, our Trust has been working on new plans for the redevelopment of Barnes Hospital in the Borough of Richmond. The vision at Barnes is a for a new mixed-use development comprising a mental healthcare facility, a school and residential housing. 

In recent years have been working closely with patients, staff, community groups and our partners to progress this vision and develop the designs for our new healthcare facility. In this time our plans have evolved to ensure the proposals meet the needs for both mental health and special education provision in the area.

The courtyard gardens in the Trust’s new Trinity building at Springfield Hospital have won ‘Best External Environment Project’ in the 2022 Building Better Healthcare Awards.

NHS England and Health Education England are seeking views on a new name and ‘tag line’ for IAPT services via a survey, and staff, patients and stakeholders are invited to take part.

Congratulations to Aki Bola-Emerson, our Clinical Service Lead for Perinatal Psychiatry, who has been awarded a Churchill Medallion by the Churchill Fellowship for her work and research into supporting parents affected by perinatal mental illness.

Over the coming months the changes at Springfield Hospital will gather pace as our new mental health facilities, Trinity and Shaftesbury, are finished and areas of the new Springfield Village continue to open up around us.

As part of this, site access changes are comign into effect including opening up of new roads and site accesses and temporary closures of other areas of the site.

In October we celebrated Allied Health Professions (AHPs') Day – a day to say thanks and celebrate all the amazing work AHPs do to provide high quality care to our service users and patients.

Pamella Kangwa, Interim Team Manager at North East Wandsworth Community Mental Health Team (NEWCHMT), has been named as the next recipient of the Trust’s Exceptional People Award.

The Kingston and Richmond Assessment Team (KRAT) provides a single point of access for referrals to secondary mental health services for patients up to the age of 74 living in Kingston and Richmond.

The Patient Advice and Liaison Service is part of the NHS designed to answer questions, support patients and their families and resolve concerns about NHS treatment.

Consultant Clinical Psychologist Dr Catherine Green has co-authored a new self-help guide book to support women experiencing anxiety during pregnancy, birth and the first postnatal year. ‘Break Free from Maternal Anxiety’ was published by Cambridge University Press today, 13 October.