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20% of women will experience a mental health condition during pregnancy and up to a year after having a baby. Of those, 70% will hide or underplay how they’re feeling. This is why it is so important to talk about perinatal and maternal mental health and raise awareness of vital support services here to support women and their families across Northamptonshire.

Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (NHFT) is a long-term partner of iWantGreatCare (iWGC) and uses iWGC across all its mental health and community services to listen to what service users are saying and use this insight to make quality improvements and build a ‘patient first’ culture within the organisation.

The Squirrels service provides residential care for children with disabilities. Thanks to a kind donation young people will now have access to two new tablets to aid their respite.

Having completed the London marathon in 2019 and raising nearly £3,000 for the N-Step service at Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (NHFT), Ash Rogers is now taking on his next fundraising challenge at the end of May - RideLondon.

Since joining the trust on 1 April 2021, so much has changed for me. I started my journey with NHFT as a TUPE (Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations (TUPE) ) member of staff, moving over from another organisation. I moved over to NHFT as a Recovery co-ordinator at HMP Peterborough, which I had been for the past five and half years. Moving over to the trust and becoming a part of the NHS evoked several changes to become accustomed to, but after a short while, myself and the team openly embraced these.

IAPT Talking Therapies Northants is offering webinars to support people across the county to help manage symptoms of menopause, such as anxiety and low mood.