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Design in Mental Health Awards 2022: The winners

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People with learning disabilities and autism have been helping to shape the new hospital development at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.    Over the past month, almost 500 people have been engaged as part of a widespread consultation seeking views on what should be included in the new home for Leeds Children’s Hospital and the new adult hospital planned to be built at the Leeds General Infirmary (LGI) site.  The Building the Leeds Way team – which is responsible for delivering the two new hospitals – ...
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The Priory has reported a ‘tsunami’ of inquiries from people seeking help for depression, anxiety, and eating disorders, among other mental health conditions. To ease the pressure, psychotherapists from its world-famous Roehampton Hospital will lead a team at the new mental wellbeing clinic in Wimbledon Park. Priory Roehampton hospital director, Steve Clarke, said: “Similar to our wellbeing centres in central London, the aim is to put therapy ‘on the high street’ so it is as easy to access as going to th...

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