Plans submitted for new mental health hospital
The Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, which is responsible for mental health services across the county, has submitted a detailed planning application to Rother District Council to build a new 54-bed mental health hospital on a site in Mount View…
Inside / Outside
Lifesize Experimental Film By Benji Thomas In the autumn of 2020, in the midst of the pandemic, Hastings-based company Lifesize began to work remotely with seven young adults to produce a film, touching on the challenging experience of living under…
A Letter of Hope
Many people across the nation are living with mental illnesses including suicidal thoughts, and the NHS is doing its best to offer them help and ; NHS mental health staff at Woodlands Centre for Acute Care in Hastings have worked…
Recognising those who give up their time to help support others
Local mental health services are celebrating the volunteers who give up their free time to offer kindness and support to people using specialist services and hospitals when they are at their most unwell. Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, which provides…
Volunteers Needed for Youth Mental Health Study
A pioneering new study will consider the social relationships of adolescents who receive care from mental health services, and young people who experience hearing voices. Clio and Kat from Vista Study Team The Vista study by Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation…
Drive For Mental Health Nurses – The Ins And Outs
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, which provides mental health and learning disability services in Sussex, is in line for an award for its campaign recruiting 150 new mental health and learning disability nurses during the past 12 months. Its ‘Not…
Troubled Mental Health Trust ‘needing improvement’ welcomes new CEO
By Andrew Everest The mental health trust that services Hastings and Rother, has been assessed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) as ‘requiring improvement’ as of September 2016, as it prepares to welcome a new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). The…
Who cares?
ARE you a carer, supporter or family member of someone with mental health problems or learning disabilities? are holding this event, to reach out to people and say ‘you’re not alone’. Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is holding events in…