Trust news

• 10 May 2012
  Devizes-based mental health clinic achieves 'Excellent' rating

  A Devizes-based mental health clinic offering Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) is celebrating achieving an ‘Excellent’ rating following an audit by the ECT Accreditation Service (ECTAS).

• 10 May 2012
  Views wanted on mental health services in Bristol

  Two meetings are being held in Bristol to seek the views of mental health service users, their carers, support workers and family members, on the changes to the services provided in the area.

• 26 April 2012
  Fromeside’s recovery model in print

  A summary of the experience of implementing the recovery model in Fromeside has been published in the latest issue of the Royal College of Psychiatrist’s ‘Quality Network for Forensic Mental Health Services’ newsletter.

• 25 April 2012
  Changes in senior leadership team

  The Chair of the Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust, Felicity Longshaw, has decided to resign

• 19 April 2012
  AWP scores highly in trainer survey

  AWP has scored highly in the 2011 General Medical Council’s trainer survey.

• 20 March 2012
  How 'understanding the person' is reducing reliance on medication

  How ‘understanding the person’ is reducing reliance on medication Avon and... Over the last few years there has been increasing concern about the use of... These drugs also raised concerns with the Department of Health that they may... While this led to a drive to reduce the prescribing of such medication... The answer seems to be quite simple: understanding the patient.

• 01 March 2012
  Mental health trust seeks views on the services it provides

  The Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Trust (AWP) is inviting its service users to take part in a survey to find out what they think about the care and treatment they received.

• 15 February 2012
  Mental health trust launches unique service for carers of people with eating disorders

  The Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust (AWP) has launched a new service for carers of people with eating disorders, in the form of on-going group sessions that meet every two months.

• 02 February 2012
  Community Drug Treatment Services - North Somerset

  The following statement is issued on behalf of Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust and North Somerset District Council in response to the recent tender exercise.

• 26 January 2012
  Social enterprise expression of interest not supported

  The Board of Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust has decided not to support an 'expression of interest' to establish a social enterprise in Bristol by a group of clinicians under the Government's 'Right to Provide' initiative.