The Trust has published a review of 2017/18 celebrating our achievements during the year and looking ahead to our plans for the future. As Chief Executive Carolyn Regan writes in her introduction: “I am proud of the way the Trust has developed and improved outcomes for patients, service users and carers over the last 12 […]
A Specialist Cognitive Behavioural Therapist from West London Mental Health Trust has been chosen from hundreds of applicants to represent London in a prestigious competition to mark the NHS’s 70th birthday. Saeed Khalilirad has been announced as Regional Champion in the Excellence in Mental Health Care Award category. He will now vie with other regional […]
Back on Track, which provides talking therapies in Hammersmith & Fulham, has expanded its services to provide even more support to people with long term health conditions. Back on Track is part of a national initiative to provide psychological therapies to people with physical health conditions who have become worried, anxious or low in mood. […]
Ealing Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT), which provides talking therapies, has expanded its services to provide even more support to people in Ealing with long term health conditions. Ealing IAPT is part of a national initiative to provide psychological therapies to people with physical health conditions who have become worried, anxious or low in […]
Ahead of Mental Health Awareness Week (14 – 20 May), a patient who used the Hounslow Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) service, delivered by West London Mental Health NHS Trust, has opened up about the help he gained from using its online therapy platform, My Mind Matters. Stephen, 48, experienced a major panic attack […]
Basingstoke MP Maria Miller has nominated Venus Kan, Vocational Services Manager at Broadmoor Hospital, who lives in her constituency, for a prestigious NHS 70th birthday award, in the gift of Parliamentarians. Andover Advertiser – Health and care heroes in Basingstoke nominated for parliamentary awards The Trust suggested a number of nominees to local MPs where […]
Last year, the Trust formally nominated Dr John Conolly, Resident Medical Superintendent of the then, Hanwell Asylum (now St Bernard’s Hospital) 1839-1844, for recognition by English Heritage. We are delighted to announce that their Expert Panel have just short-listed him for a Blue Plaque subject to further historical research. There is huge competition for Blue […]
The May edition of Happiful magazine is out and features an interview with the Trust’s Chief Executive, Carolyn Regan. Happiful is a magazine devoted to mental health and wellbeing, in a hope to break stigmas and raise awareness on the support available to everyone. In this issue the Trust’s CEO discusses LGBT+ visibility in the […]
The Trust’s Chief Executive, Carolyn Regan, has contributed to a blog post published by Imperial College Health Partners’ (ICHP). ICHP are collaborating with WLMHT and Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust to explore the delivery of Human Factors training for staff. Carolyn has written about collaborating with ICHP on the Foundations of Safety […]
Using a truly collaborative approach, West London Mental Health NHS Trust and We Coproduce have created standards of care that describe what excellent patient-centred care on inpatient wards looks like. The Trust commissioned We Coproduce (formerly West London Collaborative) to work with its community to create these new standards of care for inpatient units. The […]