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Alice works with children with a learning disability in the local community, supporting the whole family through workshops, education, peer support and in the near future, family therapy.
Learn more about this diverse and rewarding career in our latest podcast episode.
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We are pleased to announce the appointment of Oliver Soriano as the new Chief Nurse and Quality Officer at the Trust following a round of stakeholder panels and a robust interview process against strong competition. Congratulations Oliver. 💙
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Following a robust recruitment process
@ChrisOliverNHS
, Interim Chief Executive, has been appointed as Chief Executive of Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust.
Read more here:
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Our thoughts are with Dr Sacharvi’s family and friends at this time. She was a well loved and well liked colleague here at the Trust, described as “brilliant” and a “joy to work with”. Please follow
@BurnleyPolice
@LancsPolice
for updates and if you have any info let them know.
UPDATE | A murder investigation has been launched following the deaths of a woman and a girl (pictured) at an address in Burnley. Anyone with information is asked to contact us through the dedicated Major Incident Portal at or on 101, log 429 of October 3
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We're pleased to announce the appointment of Chris Oliver as our new Interim CEO. Chris will step up from his current Deputy Chief Executive Officer role from Monday, replacing Caroline Donovan who is moving into a national role at NHS England
Read more:
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We are pleased to welcome Oliver Soriano as Director of Nursing and Quality for The Bay. He brings with him a wealth of experience and knowledge from his previous roles. Read more:
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Thank you so much to everyone who took the time to come out and clap in support of our wonderful staff, right across the Trust, in every team. We’re all proud to be part of
@WeAreLSCFT
we’re all proud to be
#NHSheroes
👏🏼👏🏽👏🏾👏🏿👏🏻👏💙
#clapforourcarers
#weareLSCft
#wearehere
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Congratulations to
@DrGarethEThomas
who has been appointed as our new Chief Medical Officer, he will take over the role from Dr David Fearnley in July. Details of the deputy chief medical officer vacancy will be shared in due course.
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We are pleased to confirm that following a competitive recruitment process, Emma McGuigan has been appointed permanently to the role of Chief Operating Officer (COO), with immediate effect. Emma has been interim in the position since April this year.
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Following the retirement of Dr David Fearnley after an incredible 30 years in the NHS, we would like to introduce our new Chief Medical Officer for the Trust, Dr Gareth Thomas who will officially start his role today
@DrGarethEThomas
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Thank you so much to the generous person who saved up their money and posted it to us over the weekend. Our staff are working extra hard to look after poorly people at the moment and your donation will help us buy medicine to make them better.
#kindness
🌈
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Our Chief Nurse and Quality Officer
@Nell1Maria
is to go on secondment to
@GMMH_NHS
.
Thanks for all of your dedication and commitment over the past four years Maria, we wish you well. 💙
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What do you think to our brand new specialist
#perinatalMH
unit? Ribblemere is an 8 bed Mother and Baby Unit (MBU) for mums with moderate to severe mental health problems to access care, support and treatment whilst remaining alongside their babies. Photos by
@gillingdod_id
💫
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We’re rooting for our Associate Chief Nurse
@pauljebb1
who is at the Nursing Times Workforce Awards tonight. Paul has been shortlisted as Nurse Manager of the Year for his effective line management and support. We may be biased, but we think he’s amazing. Good luck Paul! 🤞
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Our new Street Triage Team will see mental health clinicians and police officers join forces and work together so they can respond appropriately to people who have contacted the police and are in mental health crisis.
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We are proud to be rated ‘good’ following our recent CQC inspection.
This is a huge achievement and testament to the exceptional hard work, care, compassion, and dedication of every one of our colleagues. Thank you! 💚
Full story:
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Our amazing nurses looking extremely
#proud
and ready to showcase the brand new
#RibblemereMBU
. The unit will provide care, support and treatment for women suffering with
#PerinatalMH
problems during the perinatal period whilst allowing them to stay alongside their babies! ⭐️
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James is a Director at our Guild Lodge Hospital. James and his partner are parents to a six year old. James was supported with adoption leave to enjoy becoming a daddy.
They say he’s a ball of energy and the best thing to happen to them.
#UnderTheScope
#Parenting
#LGBTplusHM
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We are proud to announce the opening of our new Mental Health Urgent Assessment Centre at Blackpool Victoria Hospital.
In collaboration with
@BlackpoolHosp
the MHUAC is a safe and calm assessment space for service users who are experiencing urgent mental health needs.
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Here's some photographs of our great staff at today's International Nurses Day event
#IND2018
#InternationalNursesDay
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Tonight’s the night! ✨
We can’t wait to welcome our colleagues to this years’ Time to Shine Awards and celebrate their incredible achievements and amazing work. We’ll be tweeting live from the event to keep you updated throughout the evening.
#LSCftAwards
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Congratulations to our autism project for winning the Mental Health Safety Improvement award at the
@HSJptsafety
last night. 💙
Read more:
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Deputy Chief Executive Officer
@ChrisOliverNHS
is wearing his Progress Badge to promote the visibility of inclusion and support all our colleagues to bring their whole self to work.
#PrideMonth
#LGBTQ
#RainbowBadges
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The North West will light up pink this weekend as a mark of respect for everyone impacted by the Southport tragedy.
#SouthportTogether
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We are pleased to announce the appointment of Abigail Harrison as Chief Digital and Infrastructure Officer.
@Abigail_NHS
joins the Trust Board from
@NWAmbulance
where she has held the role of Chief Information Officer for 4 years. Full story here:
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Kate Halsall
@Kate43758656
, Consultant Occupational Therapist, is celebrating her national success after being awarded the ‘Early Researcher Award’ by the Royal College of Occupational Therapists. 💙
Read more:
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A massive shout out to Longridge High School who have donated 50 visors that they’ve produced with 3D printing. Thank you very much.
@LongridgeHigh
#StayHomeSaveLives
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Today is International Women’s Day so we are celebrating our wonderful staff.
We have 6,715 inspirational women working for our Trust across Lancashire and South Cumbria.
We are proud and grateful for your service, today and every day 💙
#IWD2023
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To mark the first day of LGBT + History Month 🏳️🌈, Our Interim Chief Executive,
@ChrisOliverNHS
shares why LGBT+ history month is so important to the Trust and why it means so much to him personally.
#LGBTHM2023
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A huge thank you and shout out to all the fabulous team
@WeAreLSCFT
who have been flat out this week and are doing it all again this weekend
#NHSheroes
each and every one of you 💙
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Earlier today,
@ChrisOliverNHS
officially opened the doors to our new refurbished ward for older adult female patients at Royal Preston Hospital, Skylark.
The 11 bedded ward will accommodate females ages 65 and over, offering treatment whilst being closer to home.
💙 💙
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#Thankyou
to all the amazing NHS staff and keyworkers that are doing a fabulous job at keeping everyone safe 💙 👏
#Clapforkeyworkers
#ClapfortheNHS
#Clapforourcarers
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The Wellbeing and Mental Health Helpline is now open 24/7 to help people deal with the implications of the coronavirus pandemic on their mental health! 💙
If you need mental health support call 0800 915 4640 or text 'HELLO' to 07862 022846.
More here 👉
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Our Chief Executive
@ChrisOliverNHS
shares the message that during this bank holiday weekend we are still here for you. We might be busier than usual but please don't be afraid to ask for help.
@LSCICB
Our crisis line is open 24 hours a day, call us on 0800 953 0110 📞
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Huge congratulations to
@pauljebb1
, who has been shortlisted as a finalist in the Patient Experience Professional & Manager of the Year category, at the
@PEN_NEWS
National Awards 🎉
Very well deserved - we've got everything crossed for you!
#PENNA21
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Today we are celebrating 75 years of our incredible NHS.
The NHS has provided mental and physical health care to people for the last 75 years and we couldn’t be more proud of the work we do.
“It's me. It's you. It's us. It's our NHS, in Lancashire and South Cumbria.”
#NHS75
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📺 TONIGHT tune in to Ambulance on
@BBCOne
at 9pm to see our Psynergy Vehicle Team help those experiencing a mental health crisis.
Mental Health Practitioner for the Home Treatment Team, Vicky Thomson attends call-outs in Blackpool alongside
@NWAmbulance
and
@LancsPolice
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The winner of our People's Choice Award is Dr Lucy Bacon!
Lucy saved the life of Steve who was playing cricket when he collapsed and went into cardiac arrest.
Steve is here today to present the award!
#TimeToShineAwards
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Thank you to Patricia McGeoghan, a Discharge Coordinator in our District Nursing Services, who is now retiring after 40 years with the NHS! She started off as a staff nurse at Preston Royal Infirmary in 1977 & has been working in District Nursing since the mid 80s
#NHS70
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It's
#MaternalMentalHealthWeek
and we'd like to introduce Jade, who first noticed signs of postpartum psychosis in March 2020. Jade tells us how the Ribblemere Mother and Baby Unit helped her cope and recover from her diagnosis. Click here to read more
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He's only gone a won it!
@pauljebb1
What a way to end the week. We are so pleased for you and very well deserved! 👏⭐️
#PENNA21
#ManagerOfTheYear
#PatientExperienceProfessional
🏆 Good luck today,
@pauljebb1
with the
@PEN_NEWS
awards! 🏆
We have everything crossed for you and really hope you are this year’s 'Patient Experience Professional & Manager of the Year'! ⭐ 🤩
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🎈Happy Birthday NHS! 🎈
We want to say a HUGE thank you to everyone who's helped us in response to the coronavirus. Thank you to our amazing staff, to our key workers and to the public, you have been fantastic! Join us at 5pm today to say
#ThankYouTogether
💙👏
#NHSBirthday
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A huge congratulations to the wonderful Fylde Coast Memory Assessment Service (MAS) who have been ranked 1st in the country for the support that they offer to newly diagnosed people to join dementia research! To read more about this please visit .
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For Sam to be recognised in this category was incredible and we are so so proud of him
#winnertous
#proud
#HSJAwards
@HSJ_Awards
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Today we’re proud to launch our brand new mental health campaign for all public sector workers living here in Lancs and South Cumbria.
If you're struggling with the psychological impact of Covid-19, the Resilience Hub can help you!
Find out how 🔗
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Thank you to everyone that got involved in
#clapforkeyworkers
#ClapForTheNHS
#clapforourcarers
last night! You’re all incredible 👮🏻👩🍳🧑🏫👩🚒 👨⚕️ 🌟
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Get to know more about our Associate Chief Nurse for Patient Experience, Engagement, and Safeguarding, Paul Jebb as we discuss his career, family, and life away from the NHS
@pauljebb1
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Congratulations to
@HeatherCEO
for winning the Best Chief Executive Award. Thank you for your brilliant leadership. We will all miss you. Good luck for the future!
#LCFTAwards19
#PeopleAtTheHeart
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Today we welcomed
@NHSEngland
CEO
@AmandaPritchard
, her team and colleagues from
@LSCICB
to The Harbour to celebrate our improvement journey, spend time with colleagues and service users and hear about the future ambitions for the Trust.
@ChrisOliverNHS
💙
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This morning, our Perinatal Psychiatrist,
@AyeshaRahimCCIO
, will be on
@BBCRadio4
's Women’s Hour to raise awareness of Post-Partum Psychosis as
@Hollyoaks
air an episode about it this week.
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Today we celebrated the opening day of our first ever Simulation Suite! The facility will allow colleagues to train for real-life scenarios in a safe environment. It has a classroom, mock inpatient bedroom and our own patient ‘grandma’ who can talk, cough and even has a pulse!
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In the first episode of our new ‘In Conversation with a CEO’ podcast,
@ChrisOliverNHS
talks to Street Triage Team Leader, Tracy Corrigan about the service, one year on from its creation.
Search ‘In Conversation with a CEO’ on your podcast provider to listen 🎧
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WE ARE LSCft – WE ARE ANTI RACIST
We want staff, service users and carers to feel supported and safe, irrespective of skin colour, culture, ethnicity or faith, gender, sexuality or if they have a disability. We must change and challenge attitudes.
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“I am who I am and it is my duty to celebrate that." - Lindi Fynn, Interim Lead Nurse 💙👏
How are you marking
#IWD2021
?
#ChooseToChallenge
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People who need support to regain skills and confidence after being in hospital can now stay at our new rehabilitation unit, The Skylark Centre, in Preston. Here's a sneak peek inside, look out for updates over the next few weeks 🤩
#rehabilitation
#mentalhealth
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Who said conferences have to be boring?! We’re kicking off our inaugural Inclusion and Belonging conference with lots of energy 🕺 Big thanks to
@DanceSyndromeUK
for getting us warmed up for the day
#LSCftInclusion
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We are delighted to announce that we have been shortlisted for Trust of the Year in the 2024 Health Service Journal Awards. 👏🎉
Thanks to all our colleagues, volunteers, partners and patients who have supported this.
@HSJ_Awards
#HSJAwards
Full story:
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Congratulations to Sam Tyrer (
@change_talks
), our Prevention and Engagement Lead at the Trust for being awarded with the Chief Executives 'Rising Star Award'.
Sam is dedicated to supporting others, especially young people with their mental health
An inspiration to us all! 💙
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We are saddened to hear the news of the passing of Her Majesty The Queen. Our thoughts are with her family at this sad time. We are very grateful for her many years of service and her support of the NHS.
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We’re so proud of every single member of our staff for working hard to keep people safe & well. This often means giving up even more time at home with families so if you come into contact with a member of our staff, be kind and let them know how awesome they’re doing!
#WeAreLSCft
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Using the great outdoors to better your mental health and wellbeing is something we've all considered but are we really reaping the benefits of our green spaces?
Watch LSCft's Sam Tyrer
@change_talks
talk more about the benefits of the great outdoors.
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Thank you today, and every day, to the amazing women working for our Trust. They each help to make a difference to the mental and physical health of people across Lancashire and South Cumbria. We are proud and grateful for your compassion, dedication and expertise 💙
#IWD2024
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🔵🔵 We’ve lit up The Harbour blue to mark
#InternationalNursesDay2020
🔵🔵 thanks to the wonderful
@pauljebb1
💙
#beautifulinblue
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🌟 Congratulations 🌟
We are celebrating after scooping three awards at the prestigious
@HSJptsafety
.
We won Primary Care Initiative of the Year, Community Care Initiative of the Year & Patient Safety Team of the Year.
Read more:
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As part of International Workers' Memorial Day, we took part in one minute’s silence for people who have lost their lives. Forever in our hearts
#IWMD2020
#WeAreLSCft
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We are delighted to announce that we’ve been named ‘Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff’ at the Nursing Times Workforce Awards last night. The awards recognise the great work being done by employers to support the nursing workforce. Full story:
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We’ve teamed up with
@NWAmbulance
and
@LancsPolice
to successfully pilot an emergency response vehicle across Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre created exclusively to help people in
#mentalhealth
crisis.
Read more about it and our plans to expand the service:
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Margaret has talent you can't ignore! We've supported her through her career development from apprenticeship to Master's degree.
An amazing journey for an amazing colleague.
Make the most of your talent at LSCFT
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1 month to go until we open our specialist inpatient Mother and Baby Unit. The facility based at Chorley Hospital will provide support and treatment for mothers who are suffering with moderate to severe
#PerinatalMH
whilst allowing them to be cared for alongside their babies!
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Free Starbucks tomorrow only! ☕️
Tomorrow, Starbucks will be offering free tall beverages to all NHS staff to say an early festive thank you. 🎄
To claim this offer, you will need to show your work ID badge, so remember to take it!
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We are so excited to be opening
#RibblemereMBU
tomorrow. Our Consultant Psychiatrist Gill Strachan tells us about how this amazing development here in Lancashire, now means that many mums & their families can now get the care, support & treatment they need much closer to home!
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Today we were joined at The Harbour by
@DanceSyndromeUK
Over 50 staff and patients were delighted to take part in their interactive flash mob performance to mark the start of
#DownsSyndromeAwareness
week.
Read more:
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On Wednesdays we wear green, throughout October. Our CEO
@ChrisOliverNHS
is wearing green for
#NHSFreedomToSpeakUp
– share your photos with us, we would love to see them!
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Today we celebrated our Allied Health Professionals. We have over 500 AHPs employed at the Trust in six disciplines: art therapy, physiotherapy, podiatry, speech and language therapy, dietetics and occupational therapy. Here’s why they’re proud to do what they do 💙
#AHPDay2023
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Let’s not forget about our wonderful student nurses dedicating long hours of work and study to make a difference to our service users. It’s amazing to see many of our student nurses return to the Trust after graduating to begin their nursing careers 💙
#MHNursesDay
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Get involved in the planning for the opening of our brand new Perinatal Mother& Baby Unit for ppl in Cumbria &Lancs! Let us know if you want to be added to our closed Facebook group to share experiences, help with patient info & even have a say on what the wards will be called!
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Tomorrow we’ll be celebrating the amazing work our nurses do across Lancashire & South Cumbria. It’s an opportunity to reflect & recognise the efforts of those dealing with Covid-19 crisis. Join us in celebrating & share your appreciation for our nurses
#internationalnursesday
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We would like to welcome all of our South Cumbria colleagues to the Trust. From 1 Oct today, we are now called Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust. We are also changing our social media handles to reflect this, we are now
@LSCFT_NHS
#WelcomeSC
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Great to welcome our Chief Executive
@ChrisOliverNHS
to officially launch our new way of accessing mental health services in the Bay locality!💙
@LauraBNorth1
@GoalsOlivers
@YGFyldeCoast
@RChillery
@Mcguiganemma
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Today is World Mental Health Awareness Day 🌍
It’s really important that we continue to raise awareness.
Today we are highlighting our
@TalkingLSCFT
service.
Georgia explains more about the service and a service user shares their story.
Read more:
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A very special
#ThankYouThursday
to everyone at
@pnefc
for letting us use their hospitality suites free of charge to deliver staff training. Have you spotted it yet? The groundsman also showed his appreciation by paying tribute to our NHS heroes on the pitch💙
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We are incredibly proud to announce that
@change_talks
has won our
#LSCftTimetoShine
Chief Executive’s Award!
A huge congratulations to Sam who is a true inspiration to us all!
He is absolutely dedicated to supporting others – especially young people – with their mental health
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Paul Jebb
@pauljebb1
, our Associate Director of Nursing, Experience & Engagement wanted to wish all the student nurses out there a happy
#StudentNurseMentalHealthDay
. We have 118 student nurses right now and there are thousands more out there…you’re all doing an amazing job ❤️
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We understand how important our students are, mental health nurse Jordan Spires
@Nurse_Jord
talks about his personal journey with ADHD and Dyslexia and how that inspired him to create a neurodiverse friendly handbook for new students
#IND2024
#LSCftNursesDay
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It’s National Admin Day and we want to thank our amazing administrative staff across the Trust and celebrate all the valuable work they do in supporting teams, service users and colleagues to keep services running smoothly on a day to day basis.
#NationalAdminDay
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Thank you to all our teams & colleagues who are working over the Easter weekend to support the needs of our patients. We cannot thank
you enough for your energy, enthusiasm, hard work and commitment. Thank you so much for everything you are doing. Happy Easter 💙🐰
#NHSheroes
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On our dementia wards at the Harbour this
#DementiaActionWeek
families, carers, patients and staff have come together for a music in dementia afternoon 🎶 Older Aldult Matron
@cainphillipa
and team are hosting a week of activities 💙
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Secretary of State for health and social care,
@SajidJavid
prioritised a visit to our Mental Health Urgent Assessment Centre (MHUAC) at Blackpool Victoria Hospital. The health secretary spent the morning discussing the impact of Covid-19 on staff and the local community.
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Look at
#northenlights
above one of our hospitals in Lancaster last night 💫
A beautiful sight for our colleagues service users and our communities 💙
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Today
@ChrisOliverNHS
was invited to meet
@SteveBarclay
@DHSCgovuk
on his visit to
@BlackpoolHosp
. We used this opportunity to showcase the positive impact our hard working staff are having on mental health services through our Urgent Assessment Centre
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Prince Harry talking with the young ppl about importance of talking about how you feel 💙
@myplace2gr0w
@Lancswildlife
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We are delighted to announce the launch of the Lancashire Person Record Exchange Service (LPRES), a new initiative allowing health & care providers in Lancs & S.Cumbria to integrate their care systems & share information quickly & efficiently! Read more
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We were incredibly lucky to be joined by
@MichaelMarmot
at our staff Engage session today!
A powerful and truly inspiring session – thank you Sir Michael!
Lots of support for your work around tackling health inequalities.
Staff – we’ll soon be sharing a ‘watch again’ link!
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We are delighted to announce that we have been shortlisted for two prestigious
@HSJ_Awards
and a
@NursingTimes
Workforce Award.
The awards recognise our outstanding contribution to healthcare.
Congratulations to our nominees! 💙
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Great to see that the plans for our brand new
#PerinatalMH
unit at Chorley Hospital are well underway. The unit will support women who are experiencing mental health problems living across Cumbria and Lancashire. Don't forget we have a Perinatal MBU group on our FB page.
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Congratulations to one of our mental health practitioners, Max Oosman on winning Best Nurse at the
#WhoCaresWins
Awards. What an amazing achievement. 💙
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It’s Mental Health Nurses Day and we want to thank over 1500 of our amazing mental health nurses across the Trust and celebrate all the work they do for our service users. 💙
#MHNursesDay
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We are just completing the finishing touches ready for opening
#RibblemereMBU
to patients next week. The whole service has been
#coproduced
with mums with lived experience from the artwork, design through to the recruitment of staff. Just 6 days to go ⭐️
#PerinatalMH
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It's nearly
#MentalHealthAwarenessWeek
which means everything to us 💙 Next week we're going to make a big deal out of the amazing work our staff do! At the best of times they're absolute heroes and right now they're truly superheroes 😍 Stay tuned for updates over the next week!
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This Neurodiversity Celebration Week meet Learning Disability Nurse Peter. He has dyslexia and left school with no qualifications but with determination completed two apprenticeships with us to become a nurse. Read his inspiring story
#ThisIsND
💙
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