Nottinghamshire Healthcare, the County’s mental health, learning disability and community health service provider, has been shortlisted for the prestigious Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Mental Health Services Provider of the year for 2011.
The winners will be announced in November at the RCPsych Awards 2011 ceremony, which will be held at the Royal Society of Medicine. The shortlisted organisations include:
- Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
- Bolton Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service, Bolton NHS Foundation Trust
- Tees, Esk & Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
- The Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust
Professor Mike Cooke CBE, Chief Executive of Nottinghamshire Healthcare said: “We’re absolutely delighted to be shortlisted for this award. Nottinghamshire Healthcare works tirelessly to develop and maintain mental health services of the highest order. We put our service users and patients right at the centre of everything we do and have a recovery focused values base which ensures that everyone is treated as an individual with care tailored to their needs.
“We’re passionate about fighting the stigma that is still associated with mental illness and have been working with the national Time to Change campaign to change attitudes around the country. This award would be a recognition of the hard work that goes on day in day out to make a difference to our patients. We look forward to hearing the outcome in November.”
