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Starting from Tuesday 1st of October, Head Space will be open 7 days a week due to the opening of the service at the Cumberland Centre. Head Space will be open from 6pm to 10pm in the following locations: Monday & Tuesday - Four Greens Wellbeing Hub, Whitleigh Green, Plymouth, [...]
NHS England and NHS Improvement are currently looking to gain the opinions and experiences of patients, potential patients, parents, carers and advocates of patients who use special care dental services in the South West. The aim of the survey will help shape these services in future and to make sure [...]
Healthwatch have launched a survey around the NHS 10 Year Long Term Plan and are consulting the public around their wishes for services in the future. There are two surveys – one gathering general views, the second gathering feedback around the following conditions – Cancer, Heart & Lung Disease, Mental [...]
Mind launched The Side by Side toolkit today. You can find it at the bottom of this article. This toolkit is based on the research conducted by Mind in which many peer supporters that took were from Plymouth. Mind extended specific thanks to those, including the groups and organisations, in [...]
Our amazing Enterprise programme is starting again in Devon and Cornwall in the next few weeks! The Enterprise programme is a 4 day course covering all of the aspects of becoming your own boss e.g. tax, marketing, finance etc. As well as offering young people the chance to have a [...]
This newsletter and message was sent in from Andy Pritchard, CEO of Mind in Taunton and West Somerset. Please download the latest newsletter below, which has been produced to mark the suicide prevention work going on locally, particularly following World Suicide Prevention Day earlier this month on 10th September. Thank [...]
The Plymouth Mental Health Network are represented on the STP Engagement Panel. We attend the first meeting on the 20th July in Exeter to discuss where we are with the STP process and how the PlymouthMHN can help shape the process. At this point in time the panel are in [...]
You may be aware that David Light & Jim Delves of the Devon Memory Café Consortium have been awarded lottery funding to provide free training to members of the Devon Memory Café Consortium (DMCC) to support Memory Cafes with the practicalities of running a safe and successful Memory Cafe. These [...]
Heads Count, Healthwatch and the Plymouth Mental Health Network attended the first meeting of the newly formed citizen's panel. In a nutshell the Citizen's Panel (now called Engagement Panel) will help inform the Sustainability Transformation Programme (we have now moved on from the 'plan' stage) by engaging with our respective [...]