Thanks to funding from Northamptonshire Health Charity, Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust (NHFT) is proud to launch the ‘Mindfulness for You’ project.
This will provide patients and service users who have existing mental health conditions with access to an NHS-approved digital mindfulness course: ‘Be Mindful’.
The course offers supportive guided cognitive behaviour therapies which have the potential to improve users’ wellbeing.
Funding from Northamptonshire Health Charity for this initiative means the Trust are able to launch the programme free of charge.
COVID-19 has introduced additional stressors to the lives of those with existing mental health conditions and the loss of important support factors such as direct social support and face-to-face support from healthcare workers.
Evidence has shown that this has resulted in increased levels of anxiety, depression, and self-harm.
NHFT is committed to providing outstanding and compassionate care, and recognises the impact which these extraordinary times have had on patients and service users.
Since its launch in June, the pathway has been offered to 250 people, with more than 60 patients and service users already accessing the programme.
This supportive guided online course offers a flexible pathway which allows users to practise mindfulness at their own speed using a range of cognitive behaviour therapies.
The pathway has the potential to reduce levels of stress, depression and anxiety, and maintain and enhance general wellbeing.
The programme is being launched for an initial five month period, more information on the ways the course has had an impact on patients and service users will be shared in the forthcoming months.
The 'Mindfulness for You' project is available to the most vulnerable people with existing mental health conditions across Northamptonshire all thanks to the overwhelming support we've received for our COVID-19 appeal and the support given to NHS Charities Together.
Northamptonshire Health Charity would like to take this opportunity to once again thank everyone who has made a donation or taken part in all the wonderful innovative ways of fundraising throughout the coronavirus pandemic over the last four months.
Thank you so much for helping to make this big difference!