Archive - 2018

Cygnet Hospital Godden Green

Cygnet Hospital Godden Green hold Parents Forum

The team at Cygnet Hospital Godden Green were pleased to welcome parents, carers and professionals at the first parent’s forum on Wednesday 12th December, to hear about the different professional roles and how they can support a young person while they are in hospital.

Cygnet Appletree supporting the use of Positive Behaviour Strategy Plans

The team at Cygnet Appletree have been busy devising a training and CPD pathway to support the use of Positive Behaviour Strategy Plans (PBSP) with their service users. This has resulted in the development of three certificates to support understanding and specific casework in the use of PBSP’s.

A glitter filled Christmas card competition!

We are delighted to show you the winners of our annual Christmas card competition. People we support in some of our learning disability services were busy throughout November creating some wonderful Christmas cards.

Secure services Discharge and Resettlement CQUIN official launch

Cygnet Health Care are pleased to be launching this week to all of our secure units a short co-produced film titled 'Movin On' which has been created at Cygnet Hospital Bierley to help support understanding for both staff and service users on the impact of admission into hospital for service users.

Cygnet’s own Raf Hamaizia has article published by the Guardian

Raf Hamaizia, Cygnet's very own Expert by Experience Lead, has recently had an article published by the Guardian online. Raf wrote about a difficult experience he had when he was a service user in a medium-secure psychiatric unit, that had ultimately inspired him to do all he could to improve mental health services for others.