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Have you accessed crisis care via the NHS 111 mental health service?If you have used the service, NHS England would like to hear your feedback about your experiences and the support you received.

People in Lancashire and South Cumbria have been given two further opportunities to discuss health and care services with NHS leaders in the region following a recent series of successful events.

The horticultural work of a team of patients and colleagues from our Guild Lodge Grow Your Own (GYO) project has been praised at a North West Britain in Bloom event.

Op Courage, the NHS veteran mental health and wellbeing service, is offering some top tips to help people on Bonfire Night, which we know can be triggering for veterans or those in active service, particularly if they suffer with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

This week (Monday 11 November to Friday 15 November) is Psychological Professions Week, which is a brilliant opportunity to bring together psychological professionals, policy makers, and the public to connect and share their learning to maximise the benefit of the psychological professions to the communities they serve.

The new five days of intensive face to face induction training was delivered to our new internationally educated nurses (IEN) for the first time last week.

More than £5,000 has been raised for a mental health charity in Cumbria thanks to 19 Trust colleagues who recently took on the five peaks challenge.

At Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust, every day is Mental Health Day. But today is World Mental Health Day and the theme this year is work place health. Danny works for us and is sharing his story of hope.

Mental health is what we do at Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (LSCft) so we want people to get talking about it and its importance in the workplace.

This World Mental Health Day, Occupational Therapist Sofie Fowler is sharing her story. Sophie works with older adults in our Community Mental Health Team in Preston, helping to find practical solutions for older people, some with dementia, she helps to identify people’s goals to help them overcome physical, mental and social challenges.

“If it wasn’t for Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Trust, I wouldn’t be here.” Rachel Pearson works for us at Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Trust (LSCft).

Building work is underway on our brand-new specialist inpatient facility for adults with a learning disability in Preston.