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More than 120 of our nursing colleagues gathered at our Professional Development Conference this week in a day filled with energy, purpose, and a shared passion for personal and professional growth.

This Carers Week meet Lorna Connors from our Business Intelligence Team. A mother of two, she juggles her fulltime role with being a mum and carer to her five-year-old son Liam who has severe allergies.

By day Katie Gilligan is a Strategy, Planning and Development Manager at the Trust. But outside of work, she’s clocking up the miles as an amateur runner on a gruelling mission to complete seven half marathons in seven months!

Carers, partner agencies and members of the community gathered at The Chai Centre in Burnley during a Carer’s Week event and celebration organised by our Pennine Service User Council (SUCC).

We are proud to announce that we have been shortlisted as a finalist at the HSJ Patient Safety Awards 2025, in recognition of our outstanding commitment to improving patient safety and driving innovation in healthcare.

This Carers Week we’re celebrating being recognised for the work we do to put the carers of people with mental health conditions at the centre of their loved one’s care plan.

In 2005 Tony Blair won a third consecutive labour government, a pint of milk was around 35p, London was attacked in the devastating 7/7 bombings and the world witnessed events such as Pope John Paul II’s death and Hurricane Katrina hitting Louisiana. But here in Lancashire, our Early Intervention Service (EIS) was beginning a new and innovative journey, helping patients who experience psychosis for the first time receive support.

Earlier this week members of the Change Talks Team had the privilege of meeting with Sir Lindsay Hoyle, Speaker of the House of Commons, and Stephen Morgan, Minister for Early Years Education.

This week is Carers Week, designed to recognise the vital role that carers play in our community and to honour the incredible dedication and love of those who care for others.

We asked Dave Cottrell, Lead Trainer from Change Talks to share his thoughts and reflections on men’s mental health this men’s health week and discussed why there is a disproportion when discussing mental health and accessing help and services.

NHS England figures published today, during national Volunteers Week show that 71,828 people volunteered in NHS trusts in the last year donating over 6.4 million hours of their time. Here in Lancashire, Samuel is one of those volunteers, who regularly gives up his own time to volunteer as a dining buddy and befriender.

Below is our response to the publication of a Care Quality Commission (CQC) report which follows an unannounced inspection that took place between 6 and 9 January 2025. Inspectors visited 21 of our acute adult and psychiatric intensive care unit (PICU) wards across eight locations.