We are a significant provider of specialist mental health services operating across Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon and Wiltshire.

We have a range of professions which work together to provide specialist mental health services to people across these regions. To find out more visit About the Trust.

Our services strongly focus on the needs of service users and carers. We deliver high quality community based services supported by high quality inpatient facilities, which provide specialist short term assessment and treatment. To find out more visit Our services.

One in four of us will experience a mental health problem at any one time. The chances of either having a mental health problem or experiencing someone close to us having a mental health problem is high – so mental wellbeing is everyone’s business. Visit our Becoming a Foundation Trust pages for further information.

Click here to read our latest update for Foundation Trust members.

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What's new

The new edition of Ourvoice - AWP's staff magazine - for Winter 2012 is now available to view here. Click this link to open a pdf file.

New information is now available about Choice and Medication. The Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership Trust Pharmacy Service exists to proactively support staff, service users and carers in achieving safe and effective medicines management, optimising the use of medicines by providing a high quality and friendly service.

We do this by:

Providing accurate and independent information and education about medicines to other healthcare professionals, service users and carers
Undertaking clinical and dispensing activities to facilitate the management of medicines by service users within inpatient and community teams
Providing support to ensure that medicines management resources are used cost effectively within Avon Wiltshire mental Health Partnership NHS Trust.

You can find out more on medication by visiting the AWP Pharmacy Service here (please note this is an external link which will take you out of this site)

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