News and Events

Trigger warning: this blog post contains information on topics related to suicidal thoughts and behaviours, and suicide deaths.

Family Intervention (FI) is a psychological therapy or ‘talking treatment’ that can play a crucial role in creating positive outcomes for service users diagnosed with schizophrenia and other psychoses. NICE (Ref) recommends FI for service users in regular contact with their families. However, FI is rarely offered in services...

In partnership with former Education Secretary Rt Hon Justine Greening and former Public Health Minister Rt Hon Anne Milton, GMMH will now produce a Levelling Up Impact Report to measure its impact against the Levelling Up Goals.

Sam Jones, who works with the multi-agency Salford Dual Diagnosis Homeless Team, won the Courageous Award!

This event marks the launch of 10 new Age Friendly benches which have been funding by buzz Manchester Health & Wellbeing Service (GMMH NHS Foundation Trust) & Arcon Housing.

Manchester's Our Care Matters Group for service users and carers will next be meeting on Monday 25 October 1:30pm - 3:30pm at etc. venues Manchester.

In celebration of Black History Month, taking place throughout October 2021, we are thrilled to announce that Frances Fenton has recently been appointed as our BAME Staff Network Lead.

A series of embroidered portraits, created by service users from Recovery Pathways during a Black Arts Project, is currently being shown in an exhibition in Manchester for Black History Month.

This year marks the 19^th anniversary of Baby Loss Awareness Week (9-15^th October) – a time dedicated to raising awareness, providing support, and promoting change for pregnancy and infancy loss. During this time, Sands, the neonatal death charity, collaborates with more than 40 other UK charities to lead the week’s events - culminating with a national “Wave of Light” on October 15^th.

World Mental Health Day is happening on Sunday 10 October. This year, the theme is mental health care for all: let’s make it a reality.

Take part in a discovery workshop looking at how we incorporate branding and design into the New Park House Development.

We are pleased to let you know that the issues we have been experiencing regarding receiving external telephone calls have now been resolved, and all systems are back up and running.

Our Recovery Academy is back, with the launch of their latest courses and online resources for October 2021 to March 2022. 

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust is launching a new service to provide rapid support to young adults with an eating disorder in Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale (HMR).

The PATHWAY project set out in 2014 to improve mental health outcomes in cardiac rehabilitation patients experiencing anxiety and depression. The study evaluated the effectiveness of delivering metacognitive therapy alongside normal cardiac rehabilitation in comparison to just receiving usual cardiac rehabilitation. The results were very positive and published in Circulation in June 2021...

Three individuals and two teams from Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (GMMH) have been shortlisted in the prestigious Royal College of Psychiatrists Awards.

Celebrate the faith & resilience of Health & Social Care staff throughout the pandemic by attending our Interfaith Service at Manchester Cathedral on Thursday 7 October from 6pm.

In recognition of World Alzheimer’s Day, we would like to shine a spotlight on our Greater Manchester Dementia Research Centre (GMDRC) and the research work that the GMDRC is doing to try and stop this relentless illness.

GMMH is marking World Patient Safety Day on Friday, 17 September, by lighting up their Trust headquarters (The Curve) orange – the signature mark of World Patient Safety Day.