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We are delighted to announce that we have been shortlisted eight times across six categories at this year’s HSJ Patient Safety Awards, recognising our outstanding contribution to healthcare.

Our newly refurbished Wesham Rehabilitation Centre won the Design in Mental Health award for ‘Project of the Year – Refurbishment’.

Friends and family of service users joined us at Ormskirk Hospital for a Summer Open Day and were joined by Titch the miniature donkey and goats Ant and Dec!

We are continuing to recruit volunteers to help support our Wellbeing and Texting Service this Volunteers Week. Over the last 12 months, our Wellbeing Helpline took over 8,000 calls with a team of 80 volunteers helping to run the support service. We are now looking to recruit further volunteers to help operate the service.

Inpatients and staff from our Guild Lodge Forensic Hospital in Whittingham and the new Wesham Rehabilitation Unit have come together to collaborate with students from University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) for a second time, to create a vibrant art exhibition.

Lancashire teacher shares her struggles with perinatal anxiety to help raise awareness during Maternal Mental Health Week

Today is the start Maternal Mental Health Week (May 3-8). We have sat down with some mums across Lancashire who have been supported by the Perinatal Team to share their experiences with pre and post-birth mental health struggles.

At our inpatient facility at The Harbour in Blackpool we have introduced everyday activity settings across our dementia wards to help residents - who are struggling with unfamiliar surroundings - feel more at ease.

We have opened the doors to our brand new £9.4m community-facing rehabilitation centre in Wesham, an integral part of our continued rehabilitation and recovery transformation work.

Eagle-eyed volunteers needed to help develop our trust leaflets.

Our community living skills mental health team has helped one determined man tackle a severe hoarding disorder, following increased episodes of depression and anxiety.

As part of our ongoing review of how mental health services are accessed across Pennine, we have joined forces with Lancashire Police to pilot a new service.