1st March 2021

Self-Injury Awareness Day: The impact of Covid-19 on children’s mental health

Self-Injury Awareness Day is an annual global awareness day on March 1st and its purpose is to raise awareness about self-injury. This is an incredibly worrying issue in the current climate, with rising concern over the potential impact of lockdown on mental health. Many people have a hard time talking about self-injury. In this blog, we look at the potential impact of Covid-19 pandemic on children’s mental health and how you can help them.

18th February 2021

Why becoming an apprentice nurse associate has changed my life – Mental Health Nurses Day

For Mental Health Nurses Day we’ve asked one of our Nurse Associate Apprentices, Chris Longshaw, to share his experience of his apprenticeship at Cygnet Health Care.

10th February 2021

National Apprenticeship Week: Building our health and social care workers of the future

In our latest blog our Apprenticeship Manager, Suzanne Smith, and and Levi Kestle, Graduate of Cygnet’s Nurse Associate Apprenticeship Programme, look at how our apprenticeship pathways are building our health and social care workers of the future.

1st February 2021

Children’s Mental Health Week: Express Yourself

It is Children’s Mental Health Week (1-7 February) this week and this year’s theme is ‘Express yourself'. In the February blog, we feature some of the many pieces of artwork and poems our Young People have created to mark this awareness week, and here, Ali Curtis, CAMHS Service Lead at Cygnet Hospital Sheffield, describes how the hospital embraces self-expression.

2nd December 2020

Not all disabilities are visible

This week marks the International Day of People with Disabilities 2020, an annual celebration of people with disabilities. In our latest blog James O’Neil, Regional Manager, North West, for Cygnet’s Supported Living Services, explains what it means to have a hidden disability, and how we can all help.

4th November 2020

How to make a self-soothe box

In our latest blog Katie Condliffe, an occupational therapist at Cygnet Hospital Bury looks at self-soothe boxes and why they can be a great way to manage feelings of anxiety, panic and stress.

23rd October 2020

Black History Month 2020 – Celebrating black icons and unsung heroes

In our latest blog Rosalyn Mloyi, Regional Nurse Director (South), talks about the importance of Black History Month and Agnes Tutani, Clinical Commissioning Nurse Assessor, highlights some of the pioneers and inventors that have inspired her including a number of unsung heroes.

20th October 2020

Freedom to Speak Up Month – My Speak Up Heroes

In our latest blog Julie Garbett, Cygnet's Freedom to Speak Up Guardian, celebrates Freedom to Speak Up Month by sharing some of her personal Speak Up heroes.

9th October 2020

World Mental Health Day 2020

In advance of World Mental Health Day tomorrow Dr Erica de Lange, Director for Cygnet Psychology Services (South), looks at how the pandemic has affected people's mental health, where to seek support and how to get involved in World Mental Health Day.

10th September 2020

World Suicide Prevention Day: The impact of Covid-19 on men’s mental well-being

One in every 12 men in the UK are suffering from a mental health disorder and suicide remains the biggest cause of death for men under 35. In our latest blog we look at the impact of Covid-19 on men’s mental well-being.

7th September 2020

5 things parents and carers can do to help children prepare for school after the lockdown

With primary and secondary school children returning to school after lockdown, one thing is certain: this school year will be unlike any other. In our latest blog Dr Craig Turnbull, Lead psychologist for Cygnet Health Care’s Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service at Cygnet Hospital Bury, shares his tips for parents and carers on how to cope.

4th August 2020

How Delfryn Lodge turned my life around

In our latest blog, Rachel, a former service user at Cygnet Delfryn Lodge, writes about how the service helped turn her life around and inspired her to help others by training to be a mental health nurse.