Awards and accreditations

Justin Walker, a dedicated Support, Time, and Recovery (STR) Worker for Mental Health Services in Wigan at Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (GMMH) has once again demonstrated his creative expertise with his latest short film, ‘The Quiet Space.’

Congratulations to Emma Williams, Clinical Psychologist, and Max McGinn, Registered Nurse, from our Children and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) who represented Junction 17 at the HOPE(S) practice celebration event on Friday, 28 February 2025, facilitated by the Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust.

Our award-winning inpatient mental health hospital, North View, continues to draw positive attention after being shortlisted for more honours. 

In December 2024, the service was awarded with the Enabling Environments award from the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

We are thrilled to announce that our Domestic & Porter Services have been shortlisted in two categories of the prestigious National MyPorter Awards and MyCleaning Awards!

North View, our new in-patient mental health hospital, has been shortlisted a second time, having been nominated in the Best Specialist and Dementia Care design category at the new national Healthcare Design Awards.

Justin Walker, Support, Time and Recovery (STR) worker at Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (GMMH), has won the best Experimental Film Award at the WILDsound Film Festival in the United States. 

Madelaine Ackers, Deputy Chief Pharmacy Technician at Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (GMMH), has won Trafford and Stockport College Group’s Higher Education ‘Apprentice of the Year’ award for the Level 5 Management course.  

We have been awarded the National Preceptorship for Nursing Quality Mark for our Preceptorship Programme here at GMMH in April 2024. 

A Greater Manchester-based dementia research team has won the first ‘Modernising Diagnostics’ award at the Health Service Journal (HSJ) Awards 2023. 

A Peer Mentor Coordinator from Wigan, who is using his own journey to help others through theirs, has been awarded Runner Up in the prestigious Mental Health Awards. 

A Peer Mentor Coordinator from Wigan, who is using his own journey to help others through theirs, has been shortlisted in the prestigious Mental Health Awards.

The Mental Health Joint Response Vehicle (MHJRV) service – a partnership between Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) and Pennie Care NHS foundation trusts and Greater Manchester Police (GMP) – has been crowned the winner of the Collaboration Award at the Greater Manchester Health and Care Champion Awards 2023.

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (GMMH) has been honoured in two categories at the 10^th annual National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Greater Manchester Health and Care Research Awards 2023.  

A huge congratulations to GMMH’s very own Ruth Ambrose who has received the NIHR Pre-Doctoral Clinical Academic Fellowship (PCAF)!  

Despite tough competition from a large number of nominees, Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (GMMH) has made the shortlist in two of the eleven categories.  

GMMH has achieved a notable milestone this year at the annual NHS Chef of the Year competition, marking the first-ever participation by the Trust from three Catering teams.

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (GMMH) and the University of Manchester (UoM) are delighted to announce that MCT-PATHWAY and PATHWAY Beacons, led by Professor Adrian Wells, has been shortlisted for Mental Health Innovation of the Year at the Health Service Journal (HSJ) Awards, in recognition of their outstanding contribution to healthcare.

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (GMMH) is delighted to announce that brainHealth Manchester has been shortlisted for Modernising Diagnostics at the HSJ Awards, recognising an outstanding contribution to healthcare and securing a place at the prestigious awards ceremony later this year.