News and Events

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.

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (GMMH) and Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust have started a major programme to procure an electronic patient record (EPR) system over the next three years.

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (GMMH)'s Adult Forensic Services are officially reopening to student placements.

On Monday 10 November, we hosted a visit from Daniel Elkeles, the Chief Executive of NHS Providers. 

We're proud that our Pharmacy Team, working with colleagues from Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust and Stockport Integrated Care board, won ‘Best Quality Improvement’ at the College of Mental Health Pharmacy Awards.

Congratulations to Central Manchester’s Memory Assessment and Treatment service for their re-accreditation by MSNAP/Royal College of Psychiatrists!

We’re proud to celebrate the talented members of our catering team who reached the finals of the prestigious Chef of the Year 2025 competition!

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (GMMH) is delighted to once again be recognised by the Carers Trust ‘Triangle of Care’ programme for our continued efforts and commitment to improving the way we work with carers.