Services

While you are in hospital, we have a system to allow you to use the medicines you bring in from home on the wards/units (known as patients own drugs - POD). On admission please bring with you all of your medicines you have at home. If you couldn't or forgot we can ask a relative/carer to bring them in to hospital for you.

The Veteran Transition Intervention and Liaison Service (TILS) is a service for current serving military personnel and ex-armed forces persons who may have mental health, social and welfare issues.

Speech and language therapists diagnose and recommend videofluoroscopy examinations where appropriate and will discuss this with you

Community mental health teams provide a wide range of help, support and advice for people aged between 18 and 65 years with serious mental health problems.

Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing (EMDR) was developed in 1987 to help people overcome the effects of psychological trauma. Trauma is defined as something that happened that still affects you today.

Occupational therapy is a treatment and a profession. Occupational therapists are interested in how people live their lives. They help people to become as able as possible wherever they live, and whatever health issues they may have. Occupational therapists use ‘doing’ as the therapy. They think with you about all areas of your life; any […]

The Equality Act is a law about treating people fairly and equally. It says that the Trust must make sure that everyone can use its services.

The work placement officer provides advice, guidance and assessment to adults (aged 18 to 65 years) receiving secondary mental health services who are seeking employment or help them in retaining employment.

This information is here for you to refer to throughout your stay on the ward and we hope you find it useful.