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Today is World Suicide Prevention Day and we want to use the opportunity to share the ways in which you can support people who are feeling suicidal, by sharing direct experience from somebody who has been in that position.  

This Suicide Prevention Day we are supporting the message that anyone can take action to interrupt someone’s suicidal thoughts and save lives.

Dr Gareth Thomas takes up the position of as our new Interim Chief Executive Officer (CEO) after recently serving as the Chief Medical Officer and Deputy Chief Executive, whilst the recruitment process for the new substantive CEO takes place.

Talking Therapies are highly effective, and growing evidence shows that physical activity has a powerful, complementary role to play in improving mental health. Being active can help people manage symptoms, improve recovery, build confidence and develop sustainable habits that support long-term mental health.

Katy Cleece, Social Work Research Lead at Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (LSCFT), has been named one of 20 Rising Research Leaders. making an outstanding contribution to health and care research.

Our Chief Nurse Officer, Oliver Soriano has been named in the top 100 Filipinos of influence.

We can confirm that network issues which affected some of our sites last week have now been resolved and all services are contactable as usual.

Please be aware that we are currently experiencing internet and phone line connection issues at some of our sites across Lancashire and South Cumbria. This is due to a network outage affecting our network provider.

Young patients and staff from the Children’s Mental Health Team in Lancaster are benefitting from improved green space thanks to a trio of support from local business and national grants.

After supporting more than 16,000 people in communities across Lancashire and South Cumbria, our HARRI bus is entering a new era.

Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board (ICB) and Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (LSCFT) continue to work together to identify new arrangements for the un-commissioned children and young people's ADHD and ASD service for those with no additional mental health diagnosis.

We’d like to share Stanley’s story with you. Stanley, now 12, has complex needs and amongst his diagnoses, he was the second child in the UK to be diagnosed with sensory processing disorder when he was just 18 months old. Stanley was with the LSCFT’s Learning Disability Community Team between ages 4 and 11 and his nurse was Heather. In the early days his mum Catherine would despair, struggling to cope with Stanley’s behaviour and she explains she felt she was a bad mum because she didn’t…