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Service users from St Andrew’s Healthcare’s vocational workshops at the Old Laundry on Bedford Road will be on hand to welcome enthusiasts for hand-crafted produce at the new Workbridge Spring Fayre on Saturday 26 May from 10 to 3. 

The Prime Minister has invited Ann Jackson, Director of Nursing from the UK’s largest charitable provider of NHS care, St Andrew’s Healthcare, to a reception at 10 Downing Street to celebrate the country’s leaders in nursing next week.

The influential British Journal of Forensic Practice has invited St Andrew’s Research Manager, Dr Geoff Dickens, to join its editorial board. The leading practice-based journal for forensic practitioners of all disciplines, including psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, occupational therapists and social workers is now in its fourteenth year.

Service users in seven wards of the Women’s Service at St Andrew’s Healthcare are receiving inspiring mental health inpatient care, according to Marion Janner OBE who is the inspiration behind the national Star Wards scheme.

A multidisciplinary audience of researchers and practitioners were impressed with the quality and range of St Andrew’s research and innovative practice at the recent Research in Forensic Secure Units Conference held at King’s College London Institute of Psychiatry (15^th March, 2012).

Yesterday in the House of Commons, Secretary of State for Health, the Rt. Hon. Andrew Lansley CBE MP, recognised St Andrew’s Healthcare, the UK’s largest charitable provider of mental healthcare services to the NHS, as a model for the future provision of public health services.

This week delegates from across the country at Inside Government conference heard St Andrew's Professor Philip Sugarman give a keynote address in central London on voluntary sector healthcare and quality innovation.

A paper from the St Andrew’s Academic Centre in the UK, published in the latest edition of the International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, highlights the potential anti-aggressive effects of clozapine in schizophrenia.

Regular inspections from the Care Quality Commission are part of the routine of running a secure mental health facility. Following a recent CQC visit to St Andrew’s Healthcare Spencer North ward in Northampton the ward team not only received confirmation that all necessary standards were being met, but was also congratulated on its recent success in achieving accreditation for the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCP) AIMS programme. 

The in-patient service for Deaf men at St Andrew’s Healthcare Northampton, fully meets all of the newly developed, dedicated standards for Medium Secure Deaf mental health care. 

Today, writing in the February 2012 edition of The Psychiatrist, the peer-reviewed journal published by the Royal College of Psychiatrists, researchers from St Andrew’s Healthcare, the UK’s largest charitable provider of mental health services, publish the first outcomes data from the Mental Health Recovery Star.

Arson has major human and financial implications around the world.  Now, for the first time, mental health professionals and others can access best practice advice from contemporary experts in a new specialist text on adult fire-setting which takes a unique mental health perspective.

St Andrew’s Healthcare has been shortlisted in the brain injury rehabilitation category of the Laing and Buisson Independent Specialist Care Awards 2012.

On Thursday 15 December His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales praised the quality of food provided to service users by St Andrew’s Healthcare.  He made the comments during a reception hosted at Clarence House to congratulate fourteen hospitals for their work to provide excellent food.

St Andrew’s Healthcare was delighted to sponsor this year’s Northamptonshire Business Excellence Training and Development Award.

A report by a new campaigning coalition of health and justice groups says that up to two thirds of young offenders in prison could have an acquired brain injury.

The INPA is a dynamic new alliance of independent neurorehabilitation service providers.  It was launched  at this year’s conference of the UK Acquired Brain Injury Conference by Professor Nick Alderman.

This year’s all day National Brain Injury Conference in Birmingham draws together experts to debate the similarities and differences between rehabilitation of people with acquired brain injury (ABI) and other aspects of mental healthcare.

Newly published research shows that the management of violence amongst mental healthcare inpatients can be enhanced by measuring the intensity as well as the outcome of an incident.

The Workbridge Ceramics workshop will be opening its doors again during this year’s free Open Studio weekends on 10 & 11 and 17 & 18 September, between 10am and 4pm.