Archive - 2020

Excel and Exceed Centre’s Loneliness Awareness initiative

Last week it was Loneliness Awareness Week and the staff and students at Cygnet Hospital Bury’s Excel and Exceed Centre worked together to create posters, poems and cards to be shared with the residents of an elderly person’s residential home in the local area.

Dr Naresh Rasquinha appointed Regional Medical Director

We are delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Naresh Rasquinha to the role of Regional Medical Director for the Midlands and Wales. Dr Rasquinha originally joined Cygnet in 2018 as Medical Director of Cygnet Hospital Maidstone.

Cygnet Lodge Brighouse

Cygnet Lodge Brighouse achieves AIMS reaccreditation

Congratulations to the team at Cygnet Lodge Brighouse who have successfully achieved their AIMS (Accreditation of Inpatient Mental Health Services) rehabilitation reaccreditation from the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

Frisbee golf in action

Frisbee golf at Cygnet Hospital Taunton helping to make lockdown fly

Stu Hooper, Active Life Lead at Cygnet Hospital Taunton, has recently introduced Frisbee golf to the activity programme there, and it’s gone down a storm. It is just one example of the 'Empower Project' that Stu has introduced to Cygnet hospitals in the South West.