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This week marks the 10th annual Maternal Mental Health Awareness week, a week created to shine a light on the emotional and mental wellbeing of women during pregnancy and the first year after birth. It highlights that mental health challenges at this time are common and treatable, and that no one should feel alone or ashamed to ask for help.

Patients from the Scarisbrick Unit are benefiting from a growing partnership between the Occupational Therapy Team and Emmanuel Church in Ormskirk, helping them reconnect with their community and take part in meaningful activity.

We are proud to confirm our Teaching Trust status – the first step to becoming a University Trust.

To celebrate her upcoming 40th birthday, Amanda Shilton, Senior improvement Advisor, has set herself the challenge of walking up Pendle Hill 40 times to raise money for Hope and Mind at LSCFT.

Over the past 12 months, our Learning Disability Health Facilitation Team has worked closely with Dr Karen Perkins (UHMBT) and Dr Julia Smith (Milnthorpe and Carnforth Primary Care Network) to roll out TAP - a pinoeering way of collecting blood samples, across all GP practices in South Cumbria and Lancaster.

On Tuesday 3 March the Experience and Engagement Team delivered an advanced planning co-production session where service users, carers and colleagues reviewed the draft Co-Production Policy and shared reflections on how it can better support people during important stages of care planning.

Supporting patients to understand and manage their care, treatment and condition; kindness and compassion; respecting patients’ privacy and dignity, while helping them to maintain contact with their families and carers have been commended as part of an inspection our services, which have been rated as ‘good’.

We are proud to share that Katy Cleece, Social Work Research Lead here at Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust, has received nationwide recognition for her outstanding contribution to the social work profession. Amazing Social Workers is a campaign championing the exceptional work happening across the UK social work profession. It is run by the British Association of Social Workers (BASW), the UK’s largest professional body for social work. The awards aim to highlight the…

It has been a few weeks since our last public update published on 9 January 2026, and so we wanted to provide some further information to the community on the temporary situation affecting Longridge Hospital.

Chief Executive, Chris Oliver, is lacing up his running shoes this spring to raise money and awareness for the Trust charity, Hope and Mind at LSCFT.

Statement - 27 February 2026