Published Date: 08 October 2015

To celebrate World Mental Health Day on 10 October, South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust (SWLSTG) Recovery College held a balloon release event on Friday 9 October, with journaling taster sessions, mindfulness workshops and lunch. 

Published Date: 29 September 2015

For up-to-date information on open days and other events - please see our timetable.

We have over 40 events across our sites in south west London, including:

• celebrating Black History Month with poetry, music and storytelling in our Springfield University Hospital and Tolworth Hospital canteens
• A World Mental Health Day Balloon Release event on 9 October at Springfield University Hospital with workshops in mindfulness and journaling
• Open days at Springfield University Hospital and Kingston All Saints Church on 10 October
• Sutton Uplift Mental Health event on 13 October at Sutton Asda with interactive activities around the five ways to wellbeing
• Pop Up Libraries
• The Heart of Mindfulness Conference
• Recovery College courses for staff and patients, their carers and families
• Free staff welfare therapies and mindfulness drop in sessions
• Plant and cake sales
• Annual Heal Our Broken Village Conference on 28 October
• Information stalls at Clapham Junction station with Trust staff talking about mental health

Published Date: 17 September 2015

Two nurses from South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust (SWLSTG) Adult Acute Inpatient Services, Kiran Jnagal, and Felicity Mayer, were invited to a prestigious international congress for law and mental health.

Held at the Sigmund Freud University in Vienna, the congress attracts an international community of leading researchers, academics, practitioners and professionals to share their perspectives on law and mental health.  Topics discussed include forensic psychiatry in Pakistan and the practical ethics between law and mental health in Guantanamo and death row. 

It is World Mental Health Day on 10 October 2015 and to demonstrate our support for challenging stigma South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust (SWLSTG) will be launching #UpliftingImage - a digital photography competition open to everyone living across our five boroughs - Sutton, Kingston, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth.

The aim is simple - send in a photograph that uplift your mood - or makes you smile. 

Published Date: 18 August 2015

On Thursday 24 September we will be hosting our Annual Public Meeting.

The event will take place from 5.30pm in the Conference Suite, Main Building 14 (Entrance 3), Springfield University Hospital, 61 Glenburnie Road, London SW17 7DJ.

The Annual Public Meeting is an opportunity for you to learn about our achievements and challenges, as well as our vision for the future of the Trust. Following the formal business of the meeting there will be an opportunity to meet Board members and senior staff.

Refreshments will be provided.

Are you interested in learning more about our mental health services?

South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust is hosting a series of free seminars to raise awareness of mental health conditions.

This is an opportunity to find out more about the Trust and the work we do in different areas of mental health.

South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust will be hosting a seminar on Obsessive Compulsive Disorder on the 23 September between 18.00 to 20.00. 

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder on the 23 September between 18.00 to 20.00. 

The seminar will last 45 minutes with an opportunity for you to ask questions at the end.  

On Thursday 24 September we will be hosting our Annual Public Meeting.

South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust (SWLSTG) is celebrating after the Merton Home Treatment Team (HTT) gained accreditation on the prestigious Home Treatment Accreditation Scheme (HTAS) run by the Royal College of Psychiatrists Centre for Quality Improvement.

The Cavendish Square Group, a collaboration of the 10 Trusts responsible for mental health services in London, have published their London Mental Health Fact Book today.

Staff from the Changi General Hospital in Singapore visited South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust (SWLSTG) staff and patients to learn more about the Trust's world renowned dementia services.

As part of ITV's #Changing Minds campaign on mental health in the UK, ITN news spent a week at South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust, to provide an overview of the excellent services run by the Trust.

The Trust provides hospital inpatient and outpatient services, social care, community-based services and support to people in their own homes in the London boroughs of Wandsworth, Kingston, Richmond, Sutton and Merton.

Our Trust is consulting on plans for a new park at Springfield Hospital, part of the wider regeneration of the site, which was approved in 2012.

The plans for the new park have generated a high level of interest, with over 1,600 residents responding to the initial questionnaire asking what they would like to see in the new park and 169 residents attending the three day exhibition from 9th to 11th July.

Our Trust (SWLSTG) is celebrating after the our  dementia care is 'highly commended' at the HSJ Patient Safety Awards.

The Trust's Wandsworth Behaviour and Communication Support Service team (BACSS) was 'highly commended' in the Patient Safety Award dementia care category.

Our Trust  (SWLSTG) is proud to be named in the Health Service Journal (HSJ) top 100 places to work in healthcare.

The HSJ, in conjunction with Best Group Companies (BCG) has compiled a list of the top 100 best places to work in healthcare, announcing the list at a ceremony at the ICC in Birmingham on the 7th July.

Do you live in Tooting? Would you like to help South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust (SWLSTG) design a new public park for local residents?

South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust (SWLSTG) is calling on all local people to help design a new park at the Trust's Springfield University Hospital site in Tooting.