News and Events

Monday 9 February marks the start of National Apprenticeship Week 2026 (NAW). Now in its 19th year, NAW brings together businesses and apprentices across the country to shine a light on the positive impact that apprenticeships make to individuals, businesses and the wider economy.

As a result of significant disruption to the heating system which has caused serious leaks at Laureate House in Manchester, the Trust has taken the decision to escalate to a critical incident due to building disrepair. This allows us to be able to take additional steps to maintain safe services for our patients.

We need people to fill vacancies on our Council of Governors. We're looking for people interested in helping us on our journey of improvement and transformation.

Following a very successful two years at GMMH Karen Howell OBE will be stepping down to retire in June 2026.

At GMMH, we have now gained Organisational Membership of the Queen’s Institute of Community Nursing (QICN). This is an exciting investment and development which aims to support the development of community staff with access to education, networking, and career opportunities. 

In partnership with NHS Greater Manchester, Pennine Care, Gaddum and other stakeholders, we’ve engaged with professionals, service users, and people with lived experience in proposals to re-name and re-brand Living Well services across Greater Manchester.

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (GMMH) has announced a consultation on significant proposals to transform its rehabilitation services, designed to improve care for people with complex mental health needs and bring services closer to home.

On Monday 15 December 2025, our Chair, Professor Tony Warne, had the pleasure of visiting The Therapy Hub, based at the Victoria Park Centre, Longsight, Manchester.

We are proud to share that the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych) has highlighted the work of two of our services as examples of national best practice in its latest update on the Culture of Care programme. 

Winter can be a challenging time for many of us. Shorter days and longer nights can affect our mood, whilst colder weather often brings more coughs, colds, and flu. Add to that the financial and social expectations of the festive season, and it’s easy to feel overwhelmed or run down.

Honeysuckle Lodge colleagues and patients in Bolton welcomed a visit from our Chair, Professor Tony Warne, last week (8 December 2025) to our inpatient unit for women based on the Royal Bolton Hospital site.

This year Recovery Pathways put No.93 Wellbeing Centre’s Community Garden Guardians in for the Royal Horticulture Society (RHS) Britain in Bloom – It’s Your Neighbourhood, and are proud to announce that the garden was awarded Level 3: Advancing/Developing!

In June 2025, our CEO and Chair, Karen Howell and Tony Warne, introduced our strategy which sets out our vision and strategic priorities for the coming three years.

A key part of delivery will be the way we drive our implementation through more detailed enabling strategies and two more of those are being launched today: our Together Strategy and our Research & Innovation Strategy.

Artwork created by service users on Andersen Ward, our Mother and Baby Unit (MBU) based at Laureate House, has won an art competition hosted by the Royal College of Psychiatrists' Perinatal Quality Network (PQN).

The Recovery Pathways service, part of Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (GMMH), is excited to announce the launch of its Arts for Good Health winter programme.  

On Thursday 27 November 2025, NHS England formally approved GMMH’s exit from the Recovery Support Programme having recognised the significant improvements in governance, quality and safety that have been achieved because of everyone’s hard work.