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Posts by category
- Category: Blog
- Women’s History Month – Anna Sykes
- Women’s History Month – Issha Barr
- Women’s History Month – Kiran Badesha
- Women’s History Month – Alison Morgan-Tansley
- Women’s History Month – Jas Kaur
- Women’s History Month – Sam Bailey
- Coping with disordered eating during Easter
- Women’s History Month – Hollie Brown
- Women’s History Month – Ghazala Osmani
- Women’s History Month – Viba Pavan Kumar
- Women’s History Month – Bethany Gallagher
- Women’s History Month – Jasmine Martin
- Women’s History Month – Cindy Meikle
- National Guardian 100 Voices story: Listening to trainees
- Women’s History Month – Renu Bhopal-Padhiar
- Women’s History Month – Dr Renarta Rowe
- Women’s History Month – Julie Spencer
- Women’s History Month – Emily Till
- Women’s History Month – Emma Watts
- Women’s History Month – Sharon Watkins
- Women’s History Month – Carolyn Musgrave
- Women’s History Month – Zahra Hussain
- Women’s History Month – Mandy Fletcher
- Latest Caring Minds charity champion Murray braves the Edinburgh Marathon
- Alex nominated for prestigious award
- Ten week programme transforms service user’s life
- Statement from BSMHFT regarding a social media post over the weekend
- Quit smoking this Stoptober
- April’s Team of the Month is Forward House
- Category: Five Minutes With
- Five Minutes With… A Clinical Physiologist
- Five Minutes With… Our Head of Mental Health Legislation
- Five Minutes With… A Chief Pharmacist
- Five Minutes With… A Clinical Psychologist for our Veteran service
- Five Minutes With… Our Participation and Experience team
- Five Minutes With… A Medical Director and Consultant Psychiatrist
- Five Minutes With… Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services – Medium Secure Unit
- Five Minutes With… A Senior Support Time Recovery Worker
- Five Minutes With… An Interim Chief Nurse
- Five Minutes With… A Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Lead for the Maternal Mental Health Service
- Five Minutes With… A Charity Manager
- Five Minutes With… An Associate Director of Communications
- Five Minutes With… A Principal Art Psychotherapist
- Five Minutes With… A Consultant Psychiatrist
- Category: News
- Feeling lonely?
- Mental health support across Birmingham and Solihull during the Easter bank holiday period
- Preparing for this Easter bank holiday
- Campaign launched to help people save money on prescriptions
- New discharge pack set to help around one hundred acute care patients each month
- Improving healthcare appointments for patients
- Improving your sleep
- No Smoking Day
- Ramadan 2024
- Join our outdoor art therapy groups!
- Shared Care Record: A vital tool for enhanced patient care and collaboration
- Fancy being part of Team BSMHFT?
- Eating disorder support information
- Parenting a child with AFRID
- Download the free NHS App today
- Supporting our transgender community
- Parenting and ARFID, Stevie’s story
- Supporting our non-binary community
- Eating Disorder Awareness Week – What is ARFID?
- Appointment of our new Executive Director of Quality and Safety (Chief Nurse)
- Being an ally
- Mental Health Nurses’ Day
- Important update about industrial action
- January’s Team of the Month
- Exciting placement opportunities
- Warstock Lane Community Mental Health team share the love for Valentine’s Day
- Over 65 colleagues gather at our first Trust-wide Assistant Psychologist away day
- Happy Lunar New Year!
- LGBTQ+ mental health support information
- Congratulations, Dr Teeluckdharry
- Sage Ward at the Juniper Centre are January’s Team of the Month
- Time to Talk Day 2024
- Holocaust Memorial Day
- Parenting and mental health
- Recognising our terrific teams and staff superstars at the BSMHFT Values Awards 2024
- Introducing our Youth Outreach team
- Blue Monday
- National Pharmacist Day
- An insight into our Rough Sleepers Mental Health team
- Op COURAGE: The Veterans Mental Health and Wellbeing Service
- Zinnia Community Mental Health team are December’s Team of the Month
- Dr Ed Day awarded an MBE in the New Year Honours list
- Important update about industrial action
- Change isn’t easy
- Looking after your mental health and wellbeing
- Wishing you a very Merry Christmas
- Caring Minds receives £40,000 at Equitix fundraising event
- Family support for alcohol addiction this Christmas
- Take a look at some of our highlights for 2023!
- Our colleagues take part in a powerful film on Huntington’s disease
- The road to recovery – Mark’s story
- Monitoring your drinking this Christmas
- Mental health support across Birmingham and Solihull 2023/24 during the Christmas and New Year period
- SIAS team welcomes students from across the pond
- Think measles!
- Graham brings Christmas to our patients at Mary Seacole
- Happy Hanukkah from Team BSMHFT ✡
- Planning ahead this Christmas
- National Grief Awareness Week
- Please answer…
- Give the gift of support this Christmas
- Cold weather alert issued – how to keep warm and well
- Vital help for Solihull residents struggling with addiction this Christmas
- Juniper Centre spreads some Christmas cheer
- “Yeah, I’m fine”… but are you really?
- Men’s Mental Health Month – Dr David King
- Get your flu jab to protect yourself and those around you
- Men’s Mental Health Month – Steve Forsyth
- Celebrating Nursing Support Workers’ Day
- Men’s Mental Health Month – a journey from darkness to hope
- Co-production with patients sparks excitement
- Transgender Day of Remembrance
- International Men’s Day
- Dr Imran Waheed appointed Deputy Medical Director
- Leona’s had her flu jab… have you had yours?
- Men’s Mental Health Month – Patrick Nyarumbu
- Self Care Week
- Happy Diwali
- Remembrance Day 2023
- Happy 10th Birthday to our CAMEO team!
- Double celebrations at this year’s RCPsych Awards
- Men’s Mental Health Month – featuring Tim Hamilton
- Perinatal Mental Health service celebrates 10 year milestone
- Occupational Therapy Week
- An important message this Bonfire Night
- Zalika’s had hers… have you had yours?
- Mel Homer, Head of Safeguarding nominated ‘NHS Safeguarding Star’
- Black History Month – Stephen Simpson
- Lisa’s had hers… have you had yours?
- Black History Month – Sharon-Nira King
- Swapping the court room for a career in mental health nursing
- Grace advises us to have the flu jab as soon as we can to protect ourselves and others
- Black History Month – Kenysh Charles
- A message this Halloween
- Black History Month – Rohon Webber
- BSMHFT recruitment event
- Black History Month –Nursing Team Vetiver suite/Neuropsychiatry
- Black History Month – Pearl Green
- Annual physical health checks – have you had yours yet?
- Black History Month – Delroy Mason
- Black History Month – David King
- Juniper Centre’s Green Gym is now open!
- Black History Month – Loretta Davis
- Achieving hepatitis C micro-elimination in Solihull
- Black History Month – Judy Lewis
- Rosemary Ward are September’s Team of the Month
- Black History Month – Antoinette (Toni) Murray
- Tackling loneliness with a few familiar faces
- Black History Month – Aluya Ikhena
- What does Black History Month mean to you? Featuring Winston Weir
- Football legend shows his support for Caring Minds!
- Adriatic’s spooky crochet sale
- Black History Month – Nathanial Thomas
- Saluting our Sisters with Yvonne, Pauline, Ann Marie and Rebecca
- Saluting our Sisters with Diane Phipps
- World Mental Health Day 2023
- Baby Loss Awareness Week
- Black History Month – Zalika Geohaghon
- The importance of offering spiritual care to our service users
- Black History Month – Esther Kiilu
- Black History Month – Donnerly Brotherson-Sahota
- Black History Month – Fiona Lewis
- Black History Month – Zara Bailey-Maxwell
- Black History Month – Yvonne Donald
- Watch our Annual General Meeting and Annual Members’ Meeting 2023
- August’s Team of The Month revealed
- Congratulations to Zalika and Sue
- Join us at this year’s Annual General Meeting and Annual Member’s Meeting in September
- Our consultants and junior doctors will be taking industrial action this week
- Bal Claire has been appointed as Deputy Chair of Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust
- Successful Research & Development showcase
- World Suicide Prevention Day
- Annual physical health check – have you had yours yet?
- Three colleagues shortlisted in the Asian Professionals’ National Alliance NHS awards.
- Ardenleigh Art Exhibition 2023
- Older adults event this October
- Recovery College for All celebrates milestone together
- Important update about industrial action
- Mental health support across Birmingham and Solihull during the August bank holiday period 2023
- An insight into the world of drug addiction
- South Asian Heritage Month – Lakhvir Rellon
- South Asian Heritage Month – Steve Forsyth
- Coumar shortlisted at the National BAME Health and Care Awards
- South Asian Heritage Month – Jasmin Benjamin-Raj
- South Asian Heritage Month – Prabhjot Virk
- Dr Ahmed reflects on his experience as a South Asian doctor in the NHS
- Important update about industrial action
- Ardenleigh celebrates class of 2023
- South Asian Heritage Month – Sultana Begum
- South Asian Heritage Month – Aiyesha Khalil
- Ardenleigh brings the beach to Birmingham
- South Asian Heritage Month – Abbda Khanim
- South Asian Heritage Month – Shirvinder Bharj
- South Asian Heritage Month – Navreet Cholia
- South Asian Heritage Month – Jazz Janagle
- BSMHFT nurses part of team offering free liver checks
- South Asian Heritage Month – Jas Kaur
- South Asian Heritage Month – Tripta Sidhu
- NHS England visits three specialist services at our Barberry Centre
- South Asian Heritage Month – Renu Bhopal-Padhiar
- Annual Doctor of the Year Awards
- Lozells school pupils and staff raise £700 for Caring Minds
- South Asian Heritage Month – Zobia Khalil
- South Asian Heritage Month – Dr Nazam Alam
- South Asian Heritage Month – Shiny Noble
- South Asian Heritage Month – Asia Ali
- Neuropsychiatry strengthens links with Armenia
- South Asian Heritage Month – Kerana Thambu
- South Asian Heritage Month – Naveed Akhtar
- South Asian Heritage Month – Bicrant Krishnankutty
- South Asian Heritage Month – Manpreet ‘Priya’ Dhanjal
- Gold Award for Rookery Gardens’ border
- Golf coaching used to support mental health recovery
- Celebrating NHS history and diversity!
- 75 years of Mental Health Care In Birmingham
- Happy 75th birthday NHS
- Ardenleigh Angels sing in memory a service user at Baton of Hope event
- Five Minutes With… Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services – Medium Secure Unit
- Happy Armed Forces Day!
- Celebrating Windrush Day 2023
- Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week – Rachel’s story
- Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week – Buki’s story
- Category: Team of the Month
- The Programme Management Office and the Communications team are October’s Team of the Month
- Rosemary Ward are September’s Team of the Month
- Patrick visits Mary Seacole Ward 1, July’s Team of the Month
- June’s Team of the Month is the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) Medium Secure Unit (MSU)
- Sage ward are May’s Team of the Month
- The Strategy, Planning and Business Development team is March’s Team of the Month
- The East Primary Care team is February’s Team of the Month
- The Resuscitation team is January’s Team of the Month
- Solar Learning Disability Team is BSMHFT’s first Team of the Month
Our services
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- Street Triage
- Place of safety
- Psychiatric Decisions Unit (PDU)
- Liaison Psychiatry
- Urgent care
- Homeless primary care team
- Community mental health team for homeless people
- Services for homeless people
- Dual diagnosis / COMPASS programme
- Addiction services
- Information and details on the SilverCloud programme
- Supported Computerised CBT (cCBT)
- Mindfulness podcasts
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- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
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- Secure care and offender health
- Events, information and posters
- Referrals and Contact details
- Caring for someone with psychosis
- What is Psychosis?
- What can our service offer you?
- Solihull Early Intervention Service
- Children and young people's services
- Staff Mental Health Hub
- Return to Practice for Allied Health Professionals
- Speech and Language Therapy
- Health Instructor
- Physiotherapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Allied Health Professionals
- Community Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) Service
- Case Studies - Armed Forces Day
- Armed Forces Day
- Op COURAGE: The Veterans Mental Health and Wellbeing Service
- Clinical health and neuropsychology service
- Meet the Team
- Bipolar Service (MDS)
- The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome service
- Occupational Therapy for People with Huntington’s Disease: Best Practice Guidelines
- Neuropsychiatry
- Eating disorders service
- The Maternal Mental Health Service
- Friends of the mother and baby service
- Resources
- Useful links
- Worrying intrusive thoughts
- Sleep problems
- Self-esteem
- Schizophrenia
- Relaxation
- Postpartum Psychosis
- Postnatal Depression
- Bonding problems
- Birth Trauma
- Bipolar disorder and having a baby
- Anxiety
- Information for mothers
- Perinatal mental health service
- Specialist psychotherapies service
- Deaf Mental Health Services
- Specialist services
- Care home liaison service
- Memory Assessment Service (MAS)
- Older adult inpatient services
- Older Peoples Intervention Programme (OPIP)
- Older people's community mental health team
- Community enablement and recovery teams (CERT)
- Admiral nursing services
- Older adult community services
- Older adult services
- Glossary
- Useful contacts
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- Working towards recovery goals
- Looking after physical health alongside mental health
- Making a plan of the care and support needed
- A full assessment of needs
- Integrated Community care and recovery service
- Assertive outreach teams
- Adult community mental health team (CMHT) contact details
- Community mental health teams (CMHTs)
- Home treatment teams
- Intensive care
- Non-acute inpatient services (NAIPS) - high dependency units
- Non-acute inpatient services (NAIPS) - slow stream rehabilitation
- Non-acute inpatient services (NAIPS) - community rehabilitation units
- Acute services
- Final Child
- Services A to Z
- Rare dementia service
- Day services
- Respite care and support services
- Adult community services
- Adult inpatient services
- Adult Services
Sites
- Zinnia Centre
- Yewcroft CMHT, Barberry Centre
- William Booth Centre
- Warstock Lane Centre
- Venture House
- Uffculme Centre
- The Bridge
- Tamarind Centre
- Tall Trees
- Stratford Road Day Centre
- Small Heath Health Centre
- Shenley Fields
- Reservoir Court
- Reaside
- Phoenix Day Centre
- Orsborn House
- Oleaster
- Northcroft
- Newington Resource Centre
- Newbridge House
- Middlewood House
- Meadowcroft Unit PICU
- Mary Seacole House
- Maple Leaf Centre
- Lyndon Resource Centre
- Longbridge Health and Community Centre
- Little Bromwich Centre
- Juniper Centre
- John Black Day Hospital is now known as The Maple Leaf Centre
- Hillis Lodge
- Hertford House
- Grove Avenue
- George Ward
- Freshfields
- Forward House
- Express Signs
- Endeavor Court
- Eden Unit, Highcroft Site Entrance B
- David Bromley House
- Dan Mooney House
- Community Mental Health Team for Homeless People
- Callum Lodge
- Bishop Wilson Clinic
- Barberry
- Trust HQ
- Ashcroft
- Ardenleigh
- Adams Hill Centre