News and Events

21 June is National Healthcare Estates & Facilities Day, which is the perfect opportunity for us to recognise the essential work of our Capital, Estates & Facilities (CEF) workforce and their role in the delivery of our services. 

In England and Wales, men are at approximately three times the risk of dying by suicide as women, and the highest rates of suicide are among men in mid-life.

In this month's blog from the Housing First Dual Diagnosis team, they discuss gambling in people who are homeless and the support available to them.

Georgia Addison is a qualified mental health nurse who is currently on secondment with Research & Innovation.  

Carers Week (5-11 June) is an annual campaign to raise awareness of caring, highlight the challenges unpaid carers face and recognise the contribution they make to families and communities throughout the UK.

National Volunteering Week is an opportunity for us to say thank you to all of our GMMH volunteers for their hard work and support. Their dedication, compassion and support across the Trust has had an overwhelmingly positive impact on those who use our services, their families/carers and our staff.  

Funding places GMMH third out of 248 NHS Trusts and Integrated Care Boards nationally.

The Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, officially opened a successful launch event to celebrate the multi-million-pound funding boost for the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Manchester Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) and NIHR Manchester Clinical Research Facility (CRF).

During Mental Health Awareness Week, lots of creative groups sessions have been taking place at Recovery Pathways across Manchester.

A major milestone has been reached this week at ‘North View’ as work commences on construction of the steel frame on Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust’s (GMMH) latest mental health unit.

Our Psychological Therapies services and Think Wellbeing Wigan service is being renamed NHS Talking Therapies as part of a national rebranding exercise that will see all Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) services using the same name across the country. This doesn’t impact your mental health care and you don’t have to do anything.

May is Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) awareness month. BPD is a type of personality disorder. In this blog, Andrew (he/him; not his real name), a gay man in his 40s lliving in Manchester, shares his experience of being diagnosed with BPD.