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New name for mental health service
Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust’s MyWellbeing College, which supports people with life’s ups and downs, will change its name to MyWellbeing IAPT Service on 9 February 2022. This follows feedback from people that use the mental health service, who wanted to feel they were part of a clinical model, rather than an educational model. […]
Read moreChildren’s Mental Health Week – being diagnosed with ADHD changed my life for the better
Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust is backing Children’s Mental Health Week – 7-13 February 2022. This year’s theme is ‘Growing Together’, encouraging children (and adults) to consider how they have grown, or how they can help others to grow. Bright, cheerful and positive, sixteen-year-old Kamran Khan welcomed Children’s Mental Health Week, having been diagnosed […]
Read moreTrust Supports Time To Talk Day 2022
On Time to Talk Day, three MyWellbeing College therapists talk about listening to people share their stories – and the transformative and positive impact listening and talking can have on lives. Time to Talk is the national campaign led by Time to Change, which aims to reduce the stigma surrounding mental illness by getting people […]
Read moreA Bradford large-scale vaccination centre marks 12 months of providing life-saving COVID-19 jabs to people across the district
Thousands of people have been vaccinated since the NHS centre at Jacob’s Well, Bradford, opened its doors this week. Staff from Bradford District and Craven Health and Care Partnership have delivered 177,285 vaccinations at the centre that is one of four opened across West Yorkshire in early 2021 to offer thousands of appointments at convenient […]
Read moreYoung people from the district support this year’s ‘Time to Talk Day’
Apprentices working on the Healthy Minds programme are backing this year’s ‘Time to Talk Day’ on Thursday 3 February by encouraging people to start having a conversation about mental health and have shared videos of their own experiences to get people to open up. Having conversations offers people a chance to start to talk openly […]
Read moreHope on the horizon for people with Long COVID
A new service to be delivered in Bradford, Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven gives hope to people with Long COVID, as a report published shows it is effective at treating those living with the post-viral disease. The ‘Recovering from COVID’ course first ran in October 2020 as a pilot to support NHS staff and hospitalised COVID […]
Read moreSecond national gold star for Bradford Care Trust
National charity, the Carers Trust, has awarded a second gold star to Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust for community and inpatient mental health services, for actively supporting and involving carers, working with them to improve their experience and for the quality of care for themselves and those they help to look after. The Triangle […]
Read moreComing out of lockdown helped me tackle my anxiety
Fifty-three-year-old Cath Bacon experienced anxiety during COVID-19, after self-isolating since the pandemic began. This coupled with a number of health issues and disabilities prompted Cath to seek support to tackle her mental health. Cath explained: “The idea of going out was petrifying because I’d been shielding for so long, as I’d been on the clinically […]
Read moreBradford District buildings light up blue to celebrate one million vaccine milestone
Today (Friday 14 January) buildings across Bradford District and Craven will light up blue to celebrate another key milestone in the local COVID-19 vaccination programme – one million vaccines have been given across the district, this includes first, second, and booster jabs as well as third primary doses for people who are immunosuppressed. Council and […]
Read moreBeing diagnosed with ADHD changed my life for the better
Bright, cheerful and positive, sixteen-year-old Kamran Khan was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The support and diagnosis he received from Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust’s Children and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHs) has helped to transform his life. ADHD is a condition that affects people’s behaviour. Often people with ADHD can seem […]
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