Celebrating our 30th birthday!
This year we are delighted to be celebrating 30 years of South West London and St. George’s!
Our Trust was first established in 1994 as The Pathfinder National Health Service NHS Trust before changing to its current name in 1999. So much more has changed over the past three decades - across our sites and our services, but also in terms of attitudes to mental health and mental illness.
Three decades of compassionate care
As we celebrate this incredible milestone, we’re taking a moment to recognise the work of some of the people who know us best, our amazing long-serving staff!
Their commitment and hard work have been instrumental in shaping care across South West London over the past three decades.
To read their inspiring stories and learn more about their contributions, visit our 30th anniversary page here.
Reflecting on our past
Our Chief Executive, Vanessa Ford, has shared a special message to mark the occasion:
“Here’s to the next 30 and a great future for our NHS in South West London!”
As a leading mental health Trust we have so much to reflect on:
- Supporting a £1bn investment across healthcare and urban development by transforming our estate
- Providing one of only three centres nationally for specialist mental healthcare for people who are Deaf, Blind and hearing- or sight-impaired
- Partnering to establish a leading Provider Collaborative delivering a range of specialist and national mental health services in South London
- Providing nationally and internationally renowned services for obsessive compulsive disorder and body dysmorphic disorder
- Harnessing the power of our community to turn the tide on the mental health impacts of Covid-19 through the South London Listens programme
- Delivering innovative programmes like the Ethnicity and Mental Health Improvement Project to tackle health inequalities and work towards becoming an anti-racist organisation
- And transforming community mental health services to help more people live well and stay well in their communities, closer to their friends and families.
As we look ahead to the next 30 years, we are committed to delivering the best possible clinical services, that help people with mental health conditions live well and stay well in the community – the right care, at the right time, in the right place.
When people do need to come into hospital, we are continuing work to transform our environments to create modern healthcare facilities that will serve residents across Wandsworth, Richmond, Kingston, Sutton and Merton for generations to come.
Across these innovations we are working to reduce the stigma around mental ill health to create inclusive services that aim to be actively anti-racist and we are determined to address entrenched health inequalities and ensure service users experience fairness equality of access, treatment and outcomes. Together we will continue to deliver on our Trust mission, Making Life Better Together.
To celebrate our 30th birthday, teams across our Trust have come together say a big happy birthday!
