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Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (NHFT) has been shortlisted as a finalist in the 2025 Health Service Journal Awards for its work leading the transformation of children and young people's mental health services (CAMHS) across the East Midlands.

Welcome to the July 2025 edition of EMA Today, the quarterly e-newsletter from the East Midlands Alliance for Mental Health, Learning Disabilities and Autism for Alliance colleagues, stakeholders and the wider healthcare community. 

East Midlands Alliance partner, Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, has opened a new, state of the art mental health facility - The Carsington Unit, based on the Kingsway Hospital site in Derby.

Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (NHFT) has reopened an in-patient ward for people needing intensive mental health support after a major renovation was completed to provide a safer environment to improve quality of patient care.

Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (NHFT) has reopened an in-patient ward for people needing intensive mental health support after a major renovation was completed to provide a safer environment to improve quality of patient care.

For a parent or carer navigating the complex landscape of their child's mental health journey, the feeling of being unheard can be devastating.

The IMPACT Annual Report for 2024/25 has highlighted how providers have successfully reduced the number of East Midlands people receiving secure care outside of the region, thus bringing people closer to home, their families and minimising their time in hospital

The East Midlands Alliance has launched a Mental Health Act Workshops Programme, which will run throughout 2025, delivered by Weightmans LLP and available to all partners across the region.

Welcome to the April 2025 edition of EMA Today, the quarterly e-newsletter from the East Midlands Alliance for Mental Health, Learning Disabilities and Autism for Alliance colleagues, stakeholders and the wider healthcare community.

Service users and colleagues from mental health service providers across the East Midlands attended a learning event focused on the shared goal of improving safety through experiences.

Expanded provision of community-based mental health day services for children and young people is set to be rolled out across all counties in the region.

Providers of adult low and medium secure services across the East Midlands have demonstrated improvements in their service user access processes, a new audit by the IMPACT provider collaborative has found.

April 2025, marks two years since Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust became the lead provider for Midlands Op COURAGE, bringing the full range of veterans' mental health and wellbeing services together across the region.

Welcome to the January 2025 edition of EMA Today, the quarterly e-newsletter from the East Midlands Alliance for Mental Health, Learning Disabilities and Autism for Alliance colleagues, stakeholders and the wider healthcare community.

Recent data suggests that those that have taken part in the Waterlily programme have demonstrated significant improvements in weight, psychological well-being and eating disordered behaviours.

The East Midlands Alliance and Health Innovation East Midlands recently led a human factors learning review to support continuous improvement in working practices in high secure units across England and Scotland in relation to the use of mechanical restraint.

The IMPACT Commissioning Hub ran a co-production roadshow event to raise awareness of the Women's Secure Pathway Transformation Programme.

The East Midlands Gambling Harms Service supports individuals aged 18 or over who are experiencing or have recently experienced gambling related harm. 

Welcome to the October 2024 edition of EMA Today, the quarterly e-newsletter from the East Midlands Alliance for Mental Health, Learning Disabilities and Autism for Alliance colleagues, stakeholders and the wider healthcare community.

A special showcase event brought together senior colleagues from across the East Midlands Alliance to celebrate successes and think about the future of joint working to improve mental health services in the region.

CAMHS 3.5 services has been successfully helping to reduce hospital admissions, referrals and the number of occupied beds for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) patients across the East Midlands.

A new transformation programme has been launched to support women at risk of requiring secure care in the East Midlands to access better care, experience and outcomes.

Meet the East Midlands Family Ambassadors - a dedicated team of non-clinical professionals with lived experience who provide peer support for parents and carers of young people needing highly specialised mental health care.

In response to service users requesting more insight into the effectiveness of mental health treatment, IMPACT held an online monthly service user reference group for forensic patients to identify what data they would like to have access to and be able to evaluate regularly.

Shining a spotlight on the three Communities of Practice focusing on special areas of work within the East Midlands Alliance.

Mental health staff are being congratulated after their compassion and dedication led to a breakthrough in their care for an acutely unwell young person.

The Midlands Op COURAGE Partnership has been named as a finalist within both the Working Together and Healthcare and Rehabilitation categories at this year's Soldiering On Awards.

The Family Ambassador team, providing peer support for parents and carers of young people needing highly specialised mental health care, is now fully established in the East Midlands.

The IMPACT (IMproved Pathways and Community Teams) Annual Report for 2023/24 has been published.

Clinicians have agreed a new shared decision-making framework to support mental health, learning disability and autism services in the East Midlands to deliver the right care for patients, first time.