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Mental health service users in Greater Manchester are at the heart of a ground-breaking programme to help develop the mental health practitioners of the future.

Sow the City has partnered with NHS Greater Manchester to publish a transformative Green Spaces and Biodiversity Toolkit. Designed as a practical “how to” guide, it empowers individuals to initiate or develop nature-based projects across healthcare settings, supporting both environmental enhancement and human wellbeing. 

Our impressive inpatient mental health hospital North View has once again triumphed at an awards ceremony.

This week (14-20 July) is Birth Trauma Awareness Week 2025, and this year’s theme is ‘Inequalities in Maternity Care’.

GMMH has been awarded the prestigious Johnathan MacLennan Award at the international Mental Health Improvement Network Annual Conference 2025, in Utrecht, Netherlands.

We’re proud to announce that Professor J. S. Bamrah, Consultant Psychiatrist for GMMH, has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s British Indian Psychiatric Association (BIPA) Conference in Birmingham (5–6 July 2025).

This year we are introducing a new category: the People’s Choice Award. This award is unique because it allows you, service users, carers, and families, to nominate individuals or teams who have made a significant positive impact on your experiences.

On Saturday, 05 July 2025, staff, patients and families from Trafford NHS Talking Therapies and Sale Central Primary Care Network (a network of five local GP surgeries) came together to celebrate the NHS's 77th birthday by taking on the Stretford parkrun at Longford Park.

Alcohol Awareness Week will take place from 7-13 July 2025, and the theme this year is alcohol and work.

Last year saw us work with a group of service users from across the Trust to establish our Service User Council. We wanted to recruit people who are passionate about improving mental health services, people who are passionate about representing the voice of others accessing our services and people keen to make good connections with other service users at their local level. The development of the Service User Council is an example of real co-production in practice. 

For the last two years, the Psychological Therapies Training Centre has been hosting a cohort of individuals who have previously been through a course of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy.

We’ve launched our new Trust Strategy this week and it’s fitting that the launch marks the start of Co-Production Week.

Shortly after opening its doors in November last year, Forest Ward at North View wanted to involve those with lived experience, alongside NHS England, in a National Quality Improvement project.

The Recovery Academy first launched in 2013 and has been a shining light of effective co-production in practice ever since! 

We are thrilled to announce that nominations for The GMMH Stars Awards 2025, in association with Red Tree Building Contractors, are now officially open!