On 23rd October 2015 Cygnet Health Care's Rosalyn Mloyi, Restrictive Pracitice and Violence Reduction Lead, and Abu Idris, Violence Reduction Lead Instructor, gave a presentation on their work at the 9th European Congress on Violence in Clinical Psychiatry in Copenhagen.
To celebrate national Occupational Therapy Week 2015 the OT teams at Cygnet's West Yorkshire units organised a series of activities and sessions throughout the week to promote the use of OT within the service.
We are delighted to announce that Cygnet Hospital Blackheath's Meridian Ward has achieved Star Wards status. Staff and service users from Meridian Ward, a low secure service for men, were presented with The Full Monty Award by Geoff Brennan, Executive Director of Star Wards.
As part of our annual CPD events programme, Cygnet Health Care recently hosted the “Bringing People Together” conference in Bristol. Spearheaded by the team at Cygnet Hospital Kewstoke, the event was attended by over 190 delegates.
On Friday 9th October Cygnet Hospital Wyke hosted a Health Promotion Day for the service users on all three wards. The aim of the day was to promote and encourage a healthy lifestyle.
We are pleased to announce that Cygnet Hospital Bury's new Tier 4 general adolescent acute service will open on Monday 12 October 2015. The new service, which replaces one of the PICU wards, will complement the remaining CAMHS PICUs at Cygnet Hospital Bury, thus extending the short-stay care pathways on site.
We are pleased to announce that from the end of this year Cygnet Lodge Brighouse will become an all-male service. This move is in response to a clear need for male mental health rehabilitation beds, as seen by the number of referrals to the service over the past twelve months.
To mark the transition to a new therapy timetable, and to give service users a break from their usual weekly therapy routine, the Occupational Therapy department at Cygnet Hospital Beckton recently held a Fun Week.
We are delighted to announce that Cygnet Health Care has completed the acquisition of Alpha Hospitals. The acquisition brings 305 additional beds at the Alpha Hospitals in Bury, Sheffield, and Woking into the Cygnet family.
Cygnet Hospital Beckton and Cygnet Hospital Blackheath are aiming to be the first Cygnet hospitals to provide care and treatment in a smoke free environment and plan to become smoke free in November this year.
As part of the UHS family of health care services, Cygnet Health Care is growing and evolving to meet the needs of service users and their families and carers and those who commission our services and we believed the time was right to reflect these changes in our visual brand identity.
A team of service users and staff from Cygnet Hospital Kewstoke recently took part in ‘Race for Life’ in Weston-Super-Mare to raise money for Cancer Research. The race took part on the evening of July 8th on the beach and along the pier.
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