South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust will host the second Exercise Professionals for Mental Health (EPMH) conference which will be attended by mental health specialists from a variety of professions on the importance of exercise for patients.

South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust is pleased to confirm that Jean Daintith has been  reappointed as a non–executive director for a further 12 months until November 2020. Jean will continue as the Trust’s Vice Chair and Senior Independent Director.

The Stonewall riots, also called Stonewall uprising, were a series of violent confrontations that began in the early hours of June 28, 1969, between police and gay rights activists outside the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in the Greenwich Village section of New York City.

Black History Month (BHM) is an annual celebration of the contribution that Black African and Caribbean communities have made both locally and across the world.

People of African and African-Caribbean heritage make an invaluable contribution to our life in the UK. The NHS is the biggest employer of people from a BME background in Europe; with one-in-five of the workforce are from a BME background. The significant contribution of Black British people in communities right across the UK in our NHS and schools, small business, arts, academia, sports, volunteering help make Britain to be the strong and diverse country we are today

Our Trust has been preparing for EU Exit, including the event of a no deal EU exit. We have an important message to our patients and carers about medicines:

A major plan to improve the health and care of residents in Wandsworth has been launched this week.

Health and social care organisations across Wandsworth, including South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust (SWLSTG) are working together to ensure our social care, community, wellbeing and hospital services are as joined up as possible.

To celebrate World Mental Health Day on 10 October, Merton Uplift, free NHS primary care mental health service, is hosting a celebration event to give local people the opportunity to come along and find out more about the services and the benefits it can offer local people.

The Estates and Facilities team would like to make you aware there will be two water shutdowns on Wednesday 25 September and Thursday 26 September.

The team have been working hard to reduce the disruption and therefore will be undertaking the necessary work in two stages, the first stage affecting hot water only.

Every year the Trust celebrates World Mental Health Day on 10 October to demonstrate our support for challenging stigma and celebrate the month with events across our sites to raise awareness of mental health and to stamp out stigma across south west London. The day provides an opportunity "for all stakeholders working on mental health issues to talk about their work, and what more needs to be done to make mental health care a reality for people worldwide". This year's theme set by the World Federation for Mental Health is suicide prevention.

We want to make our care the best it can possibly be and one key component of this is ensuring that our service users have more positive interactions with our staff.

As part of our plans to build two state-of-the-art hospitals you may notice a number of construction works taking place on our Springfield site. Our teams are working closely with staff and patients to minimise disruption but unfortunately as we move through the development there may be a need to make alterations to the site to enable the works to take place.

We are pleased to invite you to attend South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust

Annual Public Meeting (APM)

on

Thursday, 12 September 2019

Displays and Networking: 5.30pm – 6.00pm

Meeting: 6.00pm–8.00pm

Light Buffet will be available

in Conference Room A, Building 32, (near the Burntwood Lane entrance), Springfield University Hospital, London SW17 7DJ

Annual report and accounts are available here.

South West London and St. George’s Mental Health NHS Trust (SWLSTG), which provides national and local mental health services across Richmond, Kingston, Sutton, Merton and Wandsworth, is pleased to welcome Juliet Armstrong  as its newest  non executive director.

Our Contact Centre is the first point of contact for service users, carers, families and other external callers.

Many of you have told us that the service needs to be improved and as a result of your feedback we are making improvements. Today (31 July), we will be switching over to a new software provider and so there may be some disruption as we do so. Please bear with us if you experience any issues. Please use our A-Z for additional numbers or view our website for additional contact information. Thank you for your patience.

NHS staff from BME backgrounds are more likely to face discrimination and bullying, and less likely to land senior roles.