Celebrating progress and looking forward: Highlights from our Annual Public Meeting
On Wednesday 10 September our Trust welcomed patients, carers, staff, partners, and members of the public to our 2025 Annual Public Meeting (APM). Held at Springfield University Hospital in Wandsworth, the event provided an opportunity to reflect on our work across 2024/25, our challenges, achievements, and the future ahead.
The evening began with refreshments and informal networking, providing an opportunity for our community to reconnect and engage ahead of the formal programme.
Our year in review
This was followed by a review of the year with a series of presentations from the Trust’s Board reflecting on a year of growth, transformation and innovation.
Our Executive Team shared more on progress across our key strategic ambitions (increasing Quality Years, reducing inequalities, ensuring sustainability and making our Trust a great place to work) as well as our Trust finances, our work to improve the quality of care across our services, and the vital role of co-production and Lived Experience in all that we do.
Download the full set of presentations and watch the meeting back below.
Listening to Lived Experience
The review of the year led on to a Q&A session with our Trust’s Patient Involvement Network.
This featured questions from patient and carer representatives on topics including Employment Support, Children and Young People’s Services and support available in the community.
Hold the Hope: Spotlight on suicide prevention
We then turned our attention to ‘Hold the Hope’, our local suicide prevention campaign, and a key part of the Trust’s suicide prevention work.
Justine Trippier, Trust Suicide Prevention Lead, and Lee and Jo, co-creators of Hold the Hope, shared more about the campaign’s journey through a series of videos highlighting how their work continues to offer hope and support to those at risk and their families. Watch below to find out about their work and visit their YouTube channel to learn more.
Looking ahead
The second half of the evening focused on the future, with presentations on the Trust’s new Health Inequalities Strategic Plan 2025-30and the work happening through our Better Careand Adult Patient Journey Programmes.
Our Health Inequalities Strategic Plan places racial equity at the core of our work and aims to ensure that everyone regardless of background, has equitable access to culturally sensitive, high-quality mental health services supported by strong partnerships, transparent data and a workforce empowered to make real change.
Our Adult Patient Journey Programme is working to deliver change across our adult services, to enable them to provide care in line with four key co-developed with patients and staff: care is purposeful, supports avoiding crisis, is timely and least restrictive, and is recover focused. Watch the video below to learn more about the kind of projects progressing through this programme.
Final reflections
The final Q&A session offered attendees the chance to reflect on what they had heard and ask questions directly to the Executive Team and Service Leads. This session covered topics including bed numbers, psychiatric intensive care, and tackling mental health stigma.
For any questions we didn’t have time for on the evening, we will be following up to post responses here in the coming weeks.
A huge thank you to all our presenters, to Hold the Hope, and to everyone who joined us on the evening. We look forward to seeing you at our next event.
