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We spoke to people receiving support from East Wandsworth Community Mental Health Team in 2019. Read on to hear about how the organisation has worked on their action plan to address what people told us. -
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Read more about the experiences of mental health for new parents in Wandsworth. Thanks to everyone who shared their experiences we have a number of recommendations to improve perinatal mental health support in Wandsworth. -
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If you have had signs and symptoms following a viral infection, including Covid-19, which continues for more than 12 weeks, we want to hear from you to help improve support services. -
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Read our annual round-up of what we've been working on and how people in Wandsworth have helped us shape our local health and social care services. -
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Read more about the experiences of people living in Wandsworth about what they feel has worked well or less well for health and social care services during the coronavirus pandemic and how things should develop in the future. -
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Black, Asian, and other minority ethnic people continue to face discrimination and inequality in this country in the field of mental health. Read more about a new project to try and tackle these issues. -
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At the Healthwatch Wandsworth Assembly we talked about health inequalities; we considered practical steps to reduce health inequalities and looked at a flagship project to tackle ethnicity inequalities in mental health. -
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This Mental Health Month, we’d like to share a little more about two mental health projects at Wandsworth Care Alliance. -
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Read more about the experiences of people living in Wandsworth and neighbouring boroughs about managing Long Covid or long-term effects of another virus, and about the health and social care available in the borough for these conditions. -
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We talked about health inequalities, particularly mental health inequalities at our Assembly in September 2021. Read our discussions about how we can encourage trust between staff and patients and ensure that people are listened to and valued. -
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Arts and mental health charity Hospital Rooms has this week launched an arts project in partnership with South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust. -
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The South West London Gettingiton team with young people have developed their seasonal festive campaign. -
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Find out more about services available to support mental health wellbeing for new parents. -
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Read more about our event looking at supporting mental health and wellbeing in our community. -
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A new pilot project offering a safe and private space for people to attend virtual appointments has opened at the Talk Wandsworth hub in Tooting. -
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We caught up with those working in health and care to develop support for Long Covid to find out how things have changed or improved. -
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We caught up with those who decide on what support is available to help people who pay for their social care to find out how experiences people shared with us have shaped support available. -
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Thanks to people affected by sight loss sharing their experiences we have written a report about what it is like to use health and care services and live with sight loss in Wandsworth. Read on to find out more. -
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We’ve been hearing a lot about the ‘cost of living crisis’ and want to monitor the impact that it may have on the health of local people and their access to health and social care. -
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Wandsworth Youth Council have published their mental health report which has been created off the back of their survey and with the help of Healthwatch Wandsworth. -
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Here are some resources available to help local people with the cost of living -
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Advice on staying well in cold weather, covering issues such as financial help, healthy lifestyle, flu jabs and heating. -
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In a post-pandemic world where the cost-of-living crisis is beginning to hit home for many of us, prioritising our mental health and wellbeing is necessary.
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The Coral Mental Health Crisis Hub is changing how it works but you don’t need to do anything differently.
Patients and health and care colleagues can continue to access crisis services via the 24/7 Mental Health Crisis Line on 0800 028 8000 -
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The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has launched their new loneliness campaign activity as part of the Better Health - Every Mind Matters campaign. -
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To mark Mental Health Awareness Week, South West London NHS is reminding local people of the free mental health support services available, and encouraging those who are struggling with their mental health to come forward for the help they need. -
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Mental Health Awareness Week 2023: National charity leaders visit the NHS’s stigma-breaking Springfield Village -
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Read on to find out about what our collaborations with the community have achieved over the past year. -
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The NHS in South West London has launched a new Mental Health Strategy setting out the ways it will improve and support the mental health of local people over the next five years. -
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The journey to parenthood can bring up a huge range of emotions, from excitement and happiness to anxiety and sadness. There is no right or wrong way to feel. Everyone’s experience is different, unique and personal. You are not alone in this. -
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Read about the experiences people have shared with us about managing their mental health and emotional wellbeing as they become parents. -
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The cost-of-living crisis has become a huge worry for individuals and families across the UK. The rising cost of energy and everyday expenses such as food has been having an impact nationally as well as locally. -
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Read about our Enter and View visit to Springfield Village in November 2023 where we spoke to service users, carers, staff and others about the redevelopment. -
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Mental health enables people to cope with everyday life. Our mental health is important to handle stress, ability to learn, work, and contribute to our community. It’s an integral part of health and well-being and impacts the ability to make decisions, build relationships and can shape the world we live in. Having positive mental health or access to resources to help improve our mental health should be a basic human right as it impacts us personally, socially, our community and our development. -
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The NHS report that around 1 in 5 women will develop mental health issues when they’re pregnant or in the first year after the baby is born. -
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Read about the current state of mental health and homelessness in Wandsworth. We are grateful to the people with lived experience who shared their stories, and to the organisations we spoke with who are supporting people experiencing homelessness. -
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Mental health is an incredibly important topic. Encouraging children and young people to think about their mental health and wellbeing are vital skills you can teach them from a young age. As parents and carers, there are ways you can support children to give them the best chance to stay mentally healthy. It’s important to learn how to spot the signs when children are struggling and learn how to help them have good mental health. It is equally important to have good self-care tools as a parent/carer to look after your own mental health while caring for others. -
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Stress is something we all feel sometimes, and some stress is normal. However, when it becomes regular and makes day-to-day tasks feel impossible to handle, that’s when we need to take appropriate actions to help us better manage it. -
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I’m Dominic and I’ve been working at Wandsworth Care Alliance as a Mental Health Project Manager since September 2022. Mental Health Awareness Week is on 13th -19th May and has a theme of movement so I wanted to speak about enhancing mental well-being through physical activity and connections. -
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The different levels and layers of mental health support available in our community were the focus of discussions at our public event back in February. If you couldn't attend take a look at what happened.