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The OT team at Cygnet Hospital Wyke celebrating Occupational Therapy Week 2015

Celebrating Occupational Therapy Week 2015

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.

Rachel Kitten, Head of OT; Joe Thomas, Hospital Manager and Beatrice Komieter, Ward Manager with their award

Meridian Ward gains ‘Full Monty’ Star Wards status

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.

The Bringing People Together conference in Bristol

Bringing People Together – Conference Report

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.

Staff member Dan Geddes completes his 10km contribution to the cycle challenge

Cygnet Hospital Wyke’s Health Promotion Day

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.

Wizard House, the new general adolescent service at Cygnet Hospital Bury

Cygnet Hospital Bury opens new general adolescent service

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.

Cygnet Lodge Brighouse

Cygnet Lodge Brighouse to become an all-male service

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.

Marmite the ferret was very popular

Cygnet Hospital Beckton’s Fun Week

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.

Cygnet Hospital Beckton

Moving towards smoke free services

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.

Cygnet Health Care logo

Cygnet Health Care – Our new look

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.

The team from Kewstoke at the end of the Race for Life

Cygnet Hospital Kewstoke Race for Life

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.

An architects plan of how the extension to Cygnet Hospital Wyke will look.

Planning consent granted for extension to Cygnet Hospital Wyke

]We are delighted to announce that on 7th July 2015, detailed planning consent was granted for construction of a substantial new extension to Cygnet Hospital Wyke in West Yorkshire. The extension will contain bedrooms plus day, activity and ancillary space.