MPFT is proud to join the celebration of National Apprenticeship Week 2023. This annual event, held from 7th to 13th February, recognizes the value of apprenticeships and celebrates the positive impact they have on individuals, businesses and communities.
MPFT has successfully implemented seven trailblazing Mental Health Support Teams (MHST) in schools across Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin. An eighth team covering Market Drayton and Whitchurch in North East Shropshire, launched in January.
MPFT's Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin care group are working with Tennis Shropshire to encourage more people with severe mental illness to be physically active.
Artist Mark Uttley has been working on Norbury ward, St. George's with inpatients to create designs for new signage for the ward. Mark has been creating new work for the de-escalation and seclusion area and garden.
MPFT is temporarily opening a number of discharge-to-assess beds at Cheadle Hospital over winter to create extra capacity to enable patients to be discharged from Royal Stoke University Hospital in the most timely way
Two MPFT specialists are among a handful of individuals chosen to lead a national campaign taking action to support patients living with persistent back pain caused by Axial Spondyloarthritis