Responding to the announcement in this year’s Budget of a new mental health crisis service and extra funding for mental health, Jose Romero-Urcelay, Medical Director of West London NHS Trust, said: “We welcome today’s announcement. This extra funding will help us to enhance our mental health services for users and patients, particularly when it comes […]
We are pleased to announce that from today, Monday 29 October 2018 the Perinatal Mental Health Service will be able to take referrals for pregnant women until the end of the first postnatal year. Extra funding from NHS England has enabled us to extend the care and treatment we offer to existing clients and new […]
As part of World Mental Health Day, West London NHS Trust’s Community Eating Disorders Service (CEDS) is urging parents and teachers to be vigilant for the tell-tale signs of eating disorders. These include weight loss, extreme worries about body shape, excessive exercising or disappearing to the toilet after meals. If you have concerns, you can […]
The Trust has today changed its name to West London NHS Trust. This change reflects our ambition to become a leading provider of integrated mental and physical healthcare in local services in West London and beyond, as well as in our national services. We know that people experience better health and wellbeing when their mental […]
Following an update from Kier, it is clear that the final completion of the construction of the new Broadmoor Hospital is taking longer than originally envisaged. While we are, naturally, very disappointed by this, we are working with Kier to ensure that the outstanding issues are resolved as soon as possible. Our overriding priority is the […]
Chief Executive Carolyn Regan and Medical Director Jose Romero-Urcelay joined leaders of more than 50 organisations in London to sign an historic Charter for Equal Health and launch Equally Well UK, a new nationwide collaborative. The charter offers a vision for improved physical health support for anyone living in the UK with a severe mental illness. […]
Chief Executive Carolyn Regan has been shortlisted today as ‘Chief Executive of the Year’ in the prestigious Health Service Journal (HSJ) Awards. Carolyn is one of seven chief executives from across the country to be shortlisted.
The new Summer/Autumn edition of our magazine @WestLondon is out now and available for download. Read about our “good” rating from the CQC for Broadmoor, the opening of a new home for our Recovery College in Brentford, our celebrations for the 70th birthday of the NHS, and the many great activities our staff have been […]
All NHS inpatient units under Patient Led Assessments of the Care Environment (PLACE) are required to undertake a non-clinical assessment each year. The PLACE assessments were undertaken in the spring of 2018. The results have been validated and were officially released on Thursday 16 August 2018. West London Mental Health continues to make improvements across […]
West London Mental Health NHS Trust’s crisis response teams are operating 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, as of 6 August. Up to now, anyone calling our 0300 1234 244 helpline would have been unable to access crisis care in the community or at home, at night or at weekends. It would have […]