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 […]
The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman have presented a report on mental health care in the NHS to Parliament today. The report, ‘Maintaining momentum: driving improvements in mental health care’, shows that failings in mental health care are causing harm and needless distress to vulnerable patients and their families. The report is based on an […]
Welcome to Janice Barber who has been appointed as a non-executive director at the Trust. Non-executive directors are appointed by NHS Improvement for the skills and experience they can bring from ‘outside’ the organisation. The board is led by a non-executive chair. Janice is a practising solicitor specialising in NHS law with a particular emphasis […]
The first ever High Sheriff’s Awards at Broadmoor Hospital took place on Monday 12 March 2018 (yesterday). The Trust was honoured to welcome not just one but three High Sheriffs to the hospital. We were joined by the High Sheriff of The Royal County of Berkshire, Sarah Scrope; the High Sheriff of Oxfordshire, Jane Cranston; […]
This week, we have been celebrating the 11th annual National Apprenticeship week. This year’s theme is ‘Apprenticeships Work’ to showcase how apprenticeships work for individuals, employers, local communities and the wider economy. To celebrate our apprentices, we have put together a range of case studies to promote the fantastic work they do and how their […]
In response to the Care Quality Commission’s report ‘Are we listening? Review of children and young people’s mental health services’, Carolyn Regan, Chief Executive of West London Mental Health Trust commented: “We welcome this review into how services can work together to make sure children and young people and their carers receive high quality mental health care […]
On Tuesday 6 March 2018, NHS England published the results of the 2017 staff survey. West London Mental Health NHS Trust is delighted to announce that we have maintained or improved our results across the board. Our staff engagement score – which measures advocacy (whether staff would recommend the Trust as a place to work […]
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has published a re-inspection report on our acute wards and psychiatric intensive care unit today (Wednesday 28 February 2018). As this was a focused inspection, the service was not re-rated. As well as areas for improvement and learning, the report highlights good practice and notes that “good progress had been […]
Karen Spick, Team Secretary at Broadmoor Hospital, part of West London Mental Health NHS Trust, has been awarded administrative staff ‘Leader of the Year’ at the prestigious Unsung Hero Awards 2018. The Unsung Hero Awards are the only national awards for non-medical/non-clinical NHS healthcare staff and volunteers who go above and beyond the call of […]