Each year we run our digital photography competition #upliftingimage which is open to everyone living across our five boroughs - Sutton, Kingston, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth.

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

Annual Public Meeting
Thursday 17 September 2020

5.30pm to 7.00pm

This meeting will be held on Zoom. Please register in advance https://zoom.us/j/97499892996, before 5pm on Monday 14 September 2020 to ensure your details are successfully submitted in time to be able to join the start of the meeting, as it can take some time to register.

Please note that our Annual Public Meeting will be recorded and the recording, with both sounds and images, will be placed on our Trust website afterwards.

The UK’s first national pledge for senior leaders in NHS mental health trusts, public bodies and commissioning to reduce ethnic inequalities in mental health care is launched today.

South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust and our local stakeholders hosted the ‘Covid-19: Preventing a Mental Health Crisis Summit’ to address how we can work together to protect our communities’ mental health as result of Covid-19.

We are looking forward to welcoming nearly 500 delegates to our ‘Covid-19: Preventing a Mental Health Crisis Summit’ on Monday 20 July 2020.

A specialist Mental Health Emergency service delivered by South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust (SWLSTG) in response to the Covid-19 pandemic has been commissioned to the end of October.

St George’s University of London has released early results from the DECISION study of Psychiatric Decision Units (PDUs), which show that South West London and St George’s Mental Health Trust’s Lotus unit is a best practice leading example.

South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust and the South West London Health and Care Partnership jointly with our local partners are hosting a Mental Health Crisis Summit on 20 July from 2-4pm to address how we can work together to protect our communities’ mental health as result of Covid-19.

Congratulations to the crisis charity Hestia for winning the national Charity Today Awards for their South West London Recovery Café service, which provides support to adults who are experiencing a mental health crisis in SW London.

NHS colleagues from across the country are being invited to enjoy an unprecedented online celebration of the LGBT+ community this Friday evening. At South West London and St George’s NHS Trust we take pride in supporting our LGBT+ staff and to get involved some of our colleagues will be taking part in the Virtual Pride. Jennifer Allan, Chief Operating Officer, has a message for the NHS first Virtual Pride.

Healthwatch Wandsworth appeal for people in Wandsworth to share their experiences of accessing health and care during coronavirus.

“Innovative and inspirational” is how the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has described SWLSTG’s new Orchid Emergency Mental Health Service, which was set up in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

This week is Carers Week, an annual campaign to raise awareness of caring, highlight the challenges unpaid carers face and recognise the contribution they make to families and communities throughout the UK. The 2020 Theme of Carers Week is ‘Make Caring Visible’ and we have produced a toolkit of digital assets in line with the national campaign to support carers and those around them during the week. 

In line with national guidance, the Trust is pleased to be able to confirm that visitors are now being allowed back into ward environments from 6 June 2020.

Following the publication of the Public Health England review into the Disparities in the risk and outcomes of COVID-19, and recent events in the United States, South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust would like to emphasise our strong commitment to equity, inclusivity and equality in the way we care for our patients, our service users, our staff and our community.