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Mevish Khan is a Freedom of Information Officer at the Trust. Following the devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, she gave up her own time to fly out to Turkey to help with relief efforts. Here, Mevish gives us an insight into the realities of life in the aftermath of a natural disaster.

Since its launch in 2019 the Recovery College has been developed alongside LSCft service users and our local community, who are always at the heart of every decision. We’ve listened to your feedback and need your help in renaming the Recovery College to help everyone understand what we do a little better.

We went face to face with our Associate Chief Nurse for Patient Experience, Engagement, and Safeguarding, Paul Jebb to get to know more about him, his career, and what he likes to get up to away from the office.

Plans are taking shape as building work continues at our new multi-million pound mental health facility in Whalley.

Service users are getting on their bikes as part of our award-winning project aimed at improving mental wellbeing through exercise and the great outdoors.

Did you know that every 90 seconds someone in the UK is admitted to hospital with a brain injury? 

We have been awarded £60,000 of funding to support our Growing Good Health in Lancashire project.

Residents from across Lancaster, Morecambe and South Cumbria who need to access mental health help and support are now able to via one number, 24 hours a day, from today.

From Monday 15 May, our psychological therapy services, Mindsmatter and First Step will be known as NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Talking Therapies as part of a national rebranding exercise that will see all Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) services using the same name across the country.

Francine is a highly experienced nurse who has worked for different NHS organisations over her 20 year career, helping hundreds if not thousands of children and parents, including assisting health visitors going to see new mums in child and family teams.

As part of Maternal Mental Health week we held a question and answer session on Instagram. Please see below for the full list of questions and answers. 

The Lancashire and South Cumbria Resilience Hub, set up to offer psychological support to those who worked on the frontline during the COVID-19 pandemic, is now closed to new referrals. Following the cessation of funding which ended in March 2023, the Trust has been working with partners to try to secure future funding for a continued service. It is with regret that this funding will not be available.