Leicestershire Partnership Nhs Trust

Music for mental health - a great free night out promised with entertainment showcasing the talent of the fab LPT-backed Fosse Music Collective and Bright Sparks Art

Would you be interested in getting involved in research work that could improve lives in the future? Our Trust research and development team will be out and about at various LPT sites during Be Part of Research week. Find out how how research can help with the prevention, diagnosis and treatment - and how you could be playing a part!

Dying Matters Week 2019: Are We Ready?
Every year in May, Dying Matters Awareness Week gives us all a great opportunity talk openly about dying, death and bereavement with friends and loved ones. This year, the week will run from 13-19 of May and the theme is Are We Ready?
It’s a question that challenges each of us on several levels. Are We Ready for our own deaths, or the deaths of those we care about? This is a practical question – wills, funeral planning and more – but of ...course it’s also emotional, even spiritual for some of us. For many of us, the answer will not be ‘yes’.
Research shows that most people haven’t taken care of the practical aspects, which include writing a will, deciding on organ donation, and planning our future care.
Local events The local NHS will be taking the message out to members of the public during Dying Matters Week with stalls at the following locations: • Tuesday 14th May, 9am – 4.30pm, Beaumont Leys shopping centre, Leicester, LE4 1DE • Friday 17th May, 9am – 4.30pm, Haymarket shopping centre, Leicester city centre, LE1 3YH
A further opportunity to talk about death and dying in a respectful, non-judgemental group (with tea and biscuits provided) is at a specially organised ‘Death Café’: • Saturday 18th May, 10am – 12pm, G Sellers, 75 Upper Bond Street, Hinckley, LE10 1RF Anyone is welcome to come along for chat, but for more information email Malc and Jane at 43sixacres@gmail.com.
Find out more on the Dying Matters website: www.dyingmatters.org/page/planning-ahead< br> See More

‪A big #ThankYouNurses to all our amazing nursing staff across families, children and young people’s services, community health services, adult mental health and learning disability services. Not all heroes wear capes, but our staff are definitely all health heroes! We value your compassion and dedication always! #InternationalNursesDay #WeAreLPT ‬

This year’s ‘Music in the Park’ event in the grounds of Wistow Hall in Leicestershire is taking place on Saturday 8 June, and we have some family tickets (2 adults and 2 children) up for grabs! It promises to be a brilliant night of music and fireworks, and some of the funds raised will go directly to our charity, Raising Health.
Tickets cost £15 in advance (£20 on the night) and £5 for 10-16 year olds (under 10s go free). More details at www.wistow.com. To be in with a chance of winning, just like and share this post, tagging someone in the comments below who you think would love to come. A winner will be picked at random on Monday 20 May. Good luck! #WistowMaze #RaisingHealth #Music

LPT is hosting part of a cutting-edge arts festival. One installation from the Art AI (Artificial Intelligence) Festival has been placed in the reception area of the Neville Centre for a month.
The exhibit by artist Gene Kogan is called “Neural Synthesis”. It features constantly changing psychedelic images shown on a 55-inch plasma screen. One aim is to see whether people with memory problems have a different reaction to those without.
... It was commissioned specially for the Art AI Festival to consider the effects on older people including those with dementia.
The Neville Centre, on the Leicester General Hospital site, is home for many of LPT’s memory clinics.
The installation is not open to the general public, but the same artwork will be on public display at Leicester Central Library in Bishop Street, near Leicester Town Hall from May 16.
This is the second year that Leicester has hosted the Art AI Festival. The public elements of the festival will run between 16-31 May in the Highcross and Haymarket shopping centres, Phoenix Arts, Haymarket Theatre, and Leicester Central Library.
Tracy Harwood (on the right of the photo), professor of digital culture at the Institute of Creative Technologies (De Montfort University), is the director of the Art AI Festival. She said: “We're running a data collection exercise around the Neville Centre installation. We will aim to publish the results in a journal in due course, and hopefully use this as the basis of further research.
“We have a series of activities running across the city, of which the installation in the Neville Centre is one part - but a contained part.
“I’m asking a bigger question – what do we understand of this technology, and what are we going to do with it?
“I particularly wanted older people to be involved.”
Elizabeta Mukaetova-Ladinska (on the left), professor in old age psychiatry (University of Leicester) and LPT consultant, is working in collaboration with Tracy on the installation at LPT. She said: “We know conventional art can improve the mood and anxiety levels of people with dementia, we don’t know if art produced through Artificial Intelligence can do the same.”
Feedback surveys can be found in the reception area and staff and service users.
Follow the rest of the festival activities at www.art-ai.dmu.ac.uk @ArtAIFestival ArtAIFestLeics (Instagram) and #ARTAI2019.
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If you need someone to talk to urgently about your mental wellbeing this Bank Holiday weekend - or any other day of the year - pick up the phone. Help and advice is available free of charge round the clock to adults across Leics and Rutland from our partners at Turning Point

Congratulations to the team behind our second adult mental health and learning disabilities apprentices open day - including some of our amazing apprentices!. Interactive and informative, last night's two-hour showcase proved a big hit, with 60 visitors and nearly 30 prospective new apprentices registering their interest in clinical, non clinical and business admin apprenticeships. If you think an NHS apprenticeship could be the way forward for you or someone you know you can find out more from apprenticeships@leicspart.nhs.uk

Today's the day! An apprenticeship can unlock a future in the NHS! Could it be yours? Join us today for our open day - find out about opportunities in adult mental health and learning disabilities services and chat to some of the people already on their journey!

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) will soon recruit people with experience of mental health issues as dedicated peer support staff for service users. The mental health peer support workers will be recruited across LPT’s community mental health teams to bring hope to current service users and empower them to feel confident to work towards recovery and live independently where possible. Could you act as a mental health peer support worker? Click on these links to find out more about the roles and our peer support drop-in sessions: https://bit.ly/2GRRa45 and https://bit.ly/2ZJJx76

Give a virtual cheer in support of our fabulous Bradgate bed management co-ordinator Mo Handley tackling her first London Marathon today. Mo is running in aid of our Road to Recovery appeal to provide a mini gym and equipment for patients at Stewart House, our adult mental health rehab unit in Narborough. And she'll be keeping it in the family by running with her daughter Sinnead who is supporting MIND. Amazing ladies spurred on by a legacy of family love https://tinyurl.com/y287zxkq

Great displays about maternal mental health from our 0-19 #HealthyTogether teams at Eyres Monsell, Saffron, Springfield Road and Bewcastle Children’s Centres. Find lots more advice at healthforunder5s.co.uk and if you’re feeling low, don’t suffer in silence - you can text a public health nurse (health visitor) using our secure messaging device ChatHealth. Full details on the Health for Under 5s site.

Good luck to amazing Bradgate bed management co-ordinator Mo Handley in her first London Marathon tomorrow. Mo is running in aid of our Road to Recovery appeal to provide a mini gym and equipment for patients at Stewart House, our adult mental health rehab unit in Narborough. And she'll be keeping it in the family by running with her daughter Sinnead who is supporting MIND. Amazing ladies spurred on by a legacy of family love https://tinyurl.com/y287zxkq

Our adult mental health and learning disabilities services really value their apprentices. They are the future of LPT. Now we are looking for more to take on opportunities in clinical and non-clinical roles. Could this be your future? come along to our open day and find out!

We are delighted to have secured final approval from the Department of Health to build a new 15-bed mental health inpatient facility for children and young people on the Glenfield Hospital site. Subject to contract, Interserve Construction will begin work on the new state-of-the-art, purpose-built £8 million unit next month, with a view to opening in August 2020! The current inpatient unit has been temporarily based at Coalville Hospital since 2015. Read full details here: http://bit.ly/2XlbkJ3

Helen Briggs, deputy sister on East Ward at Hinckley and Bosworth Community Hospital, is this month’s Valued Star award winner! Helen was chosen for going above and beyond her duties on the ward. This is how they found out this afternoon...
Why not nominate a colleague that you think goes above and beyond and encompasses the Trust's values www.leicspart.nhs.uk/valuedstars #WeAreLPT
https://youtu.be/7ox-kWTDE4s

We're incredibly proud of our clinical and non-clinical apprentices in adult mental health and learning disability services - they are our future! Now we have opportunities for a new cohort of enthusiastic apprentices.I f you know someone looking for an apprenticeship opportunity that could kick-start their NHS carreer, this could be their future! Please let them know about our apprentices recruitment open day and share this post!