Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

Our free helpline is here to help our service users, carers, and people living in the areas we serve. You can now reach us on one number, from all areas we serve. If you are worried or anxious about your mental health or feeling as though you are in a mental health crisis and need urgent support and help, please don't hesitate to call. The helpline is also there for you if you are concerned about a loved one, neighbour, friend or family member. It is open all day and night, 365 days per year and it is free of charge.

A date for your diary! Join us for our World Suicide Prevention Day virtual event on September 10. The theme for the day is "changing the narrative on suicide" and we have guest speakers to inspire and motivate us all to do what we can to prevent suicide. It runs from 10.30am-12.30pm. Please come along and join others to learn how we can all make a difference. Book here: https://lnkd.in/e7rJZrNJ #ShiningALightOnSuicide #MonthOfHope Warren Heppolette Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust Greater Manchester Combined Authority

Service users from Benchmark, part of Recovery Pathways, have recently completed a commission to make three planters for Fifteen, a Democratic Day Therapeutic Community at Gaskell House. Here’s Adam Dierckx, Consultant Medical Psychotherapist, receiving the planters from David Lowery, Benchmark Manager. Find out more about Benchmark's commissioned work here: https://buff.ly/44NkNLM #GMMHRecoveryPathways

Proud to have showcased the fantastic North View Development today to Women in Property North West & The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB). A busy but well worthwhile day with two site tours and a CPD session and grateful for the opportunity. An exemplar project from clinical and service user engagement to project delivery which the client Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust has been instrumental in enabling this and striving for innovation whilst setting the standards. Great opportunity to showcase best practices to hopefully inform future developments! Jack Street Deborah Goodman Katy Schofield & VINCI Building UK (IHP). #projectmangement #mentalhealth #construction

🏗️🏥 What a brilliant morning yesterday for our #CPD Site Study of North Manchester General Hospital North View Development in partnership with DAY Project Management (Karla Heywood LLB (Hons)) and The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB). North View is the £105.9 million state-of-the-art unit, run by Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust that will replace the current Park House adult mental health inpatient unit on the North Manchester General Hospital site. Attendees heard from project managers, Jack Street and Qasim Ramzan MCIOB MAPM who are overseeing the scheme and also from Deborah Goodman from Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust  who provided a clinical perspective. The group joined in a site tour led by #IHP joint venture members: VINCI Building UK and Sir Robert McAlpine - thank you to all involved and to our committee member, Marion R. and Karla Heywood LLB (Hons) for organising such a great event. 🏗️🏥 Women in Property  | #wipnw24 #cpd #sitestudy #GMMHImprovingNorthMcr #DAYPM

Thank you Rachel Wakefield (Chief AHP for East of England) for visiting us at Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust Had a wonderful meeting with our CEO Karen Howell OBE Discussed about the role of AHPs in #patientsafety & #Quality Focusing on #Recovery #Governance #Aspiration #Strategy Tony Warne Maria Nelligan Suzanne Robinson

Today is National #Schizophrenia Awareness Day. 1 in 100 people live with schizophrenia. It does not mean split personality. It doesn’t stop you living a fulfilled life. Learn the truth about schizophrenia via Rethink Mental Illness. Visit: https://buff.ly/3YbWIyo #NSAD24

North View really is more than just a building!! What a great Hospital Tour I went on yesterday, organised in collaboration with Women in Property | DAY Project Management and Fairhurst Architects - part of the Bond Bryan Group | Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust Thank you to Jack Street and Qasim Ramzan MCIOB MAPM, I was quite taken aback yesterday by the degree of sensitivity, thoughtfulness and collaboration on this project.  And your presentation style was excellent!! Replacing the existing Park House which is part of North Manchester General Hospital, the new hospital focus will be on ‘planning for recovery’ which is in line with trauma-informed practice.  Service users have been continually consulted at vital junctures of the project and a compassionate approach has been taken with regards to the design of the building.  A great team has been put together which includes clinical staff who advise and guide on service user needs and how this aligns with the building works. Designed with tick-shaped buildings, allowing 360-degree visibility to ensure service user safety and thoughtful landscaping which is intrinsic to the scheme. The 2 million being allocated for external works has been deemed essential in the recovery of adults with mental illness. As part of the works, there is also a secure rooftop courtyard. Currently, 75% of people who come into the services share a dormitory, hence the need for the 150-bed upgrade. Due to the complex needs of service users, it’s essential for their healing that they have their own space. The scheme includes good-sized single bedrooms all with en-suite bathrooms. Additionally, there is a quiet /calm room. There has been strong product development on-site to ensure the safety and durability of all fixtures and fittings. This building is clearly a labour of love (in the most positive sense), and has been designed and built to reflect the modern world we live in and what we now know about mental health. All who have worked on this project must feel very proud. Well done! VINCI Building UK | Sir Robert McAlpine | #GMMHImprovingNorthMcr | Marion R. | Karla Heywood LLB (Hons) | Jaime Stanton | Amanda Lewin | Vikki Thomas | Faye Regan

A suitably sunny day for a site visit back at North Manchester General Hospital this morning, four years after I worked on the #StrategicOutlineCase and #masterplan for the site-wide redevelopment with Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust This morning I was hosting a 15 person tour of the new Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust facility, #NorthView, with Jack Street, Qasim Ramzan MCIOB MAPM, Karla Heywood LLB (Hons) and Katy Schofield of DAY Project Management and on behalf of Women in Property North West Deborah Goodman of #NorthView explained how the building will provide a much-needed £105 million state-of-the-art adult mental health inpatient unit for #Manchester. The project is being delivered by #IHP the joint venture between VINCI Building UK and Sir Robert McAlpine #GMMHImprovingNorthMcr Fairhurst Architects - part of the Bond Bryan Group | Mark Adey | Richard Fitton | Laura Sherliker | Nicola Rudman | Matthew Hutton | Steve Maslin Jaime Stanton | Fiona McLoughlin | Amanda Lewin | Donna Barber | Eleanor Strange | Jess Taylor-Jemmett | Katherine Twentyman | Linda Jordan | Vikki Thomas | Tania Knowles | Emma Tanti

A proud day for me today to be part of the DAY team as DAY Project Management facilitated the CPD accredited, Women in Property North West and The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) site studies at the North View Development. North View is the £105.9 million state-of-the-art unit, run by Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust that will replace the current Park House adult mental health inpatient unit on the North Manchester General Hospital site. As the project managers overseeing the scheme, Jack Street and Qasim Ramzan MCIOB MAPM hosted an informative presentation at the project office, with Deborah Goodman from Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust providing a clinical perspective. The group joined in a site tour led by VINCI Construction / IHP, Katy Schofield, Deborah, Jack & Qasim. Thanks to all attendees for being so engaged and to the DAY PM team for sharing your knowledge & fantastic scheme with all of us! Tania Knowles | Jaime Stanton | Fiona McLoughlin | Marion R. | Amanda Lewin | Donna Barber | Eleanor Strange | Jess Taylor-Jemmett | Katherine Twentyman | Linda Jordan | Vikki Thomas