Footballing nice Martin Keown to open Keystone Psychological Well being and Wellbeing Hub Banbury

Keystone Psychological Well being & Wellbeing Hub celebrating with a gala opening at Fort Quay Procuring Centre in Banbury

A Excessive Road NHS and neighborhood psychological well being hub is to be opened within the coronary heart of Banbury’s city centre by former England and Arsenal footballer and revered pundit Martin Keown.

The Keystone Psychological Well being & Wellbeing Hub is to have a good time its launch with a gala opening at Fort Quay Procuring Centre this Thursday (July 20).

Adults experiencing psychological well being challenges will have the ability to draw on help from the hub due to NHS psychological well being professionals, Friends Assist employees who’ve their very own expertise of psychological well being challenges and third-sector psychological well being companies, so as to thrive amongst associates, household and their neighborhood. The hub can also be linked to their native GP surgical procedure.

It’s hoped the hub will make it simpler than ever for individuals in the neighborhood to entry psychological well being care conveniently once they want it most.

The Banbury hub has been developed with adults who use psychological well being companies in Banbury after they stated they want to see extra specialist care out there at native stage through their GP surgical procedure, and improved communication between GPs and psychological well being companies.

It’s a part of a collection of Keystone Psychological Well being & Wellbeing Hubs opening up on the town centres and communities throughout the county. A keystone is the central stone, or precept, which holds a constructing or system collectively.

Soccer nice Martin Keown, who represented England on the 1998 and 2002 World Cups, plus Euro 1998 and 2002, stated: “It’s implausible to see the opening of The Keystone Psychological Well being & Wellbeing Hub in my house county of Oxfordshire. To supply individuals one other supply of assist from their area people, from a mixture of professionals and people who have suffered with psychological well being beforehand, is inspirational and will probably be an enormous assist for all. It can permit individuals residing with psychological well being challenges to thrive of their day-to-day lives regardless of the challenges, and this hub would be the good place for individuals to hunt assist and help once they want it. I’m very honoured to be opening the hub as we speak.”

Psychological well being nurse and hub supervisor David Naidoo from Oxford Well being NHS Basis Belief will lead a Main Care Psychological Well being Staff on the hub. He stated: “Like every ongoing well being situation, individuals can expertise ups and downs when residing with a long-term psychological well being situation. However we additionally know psychological well being is only one facet of individuals’s lives. The hubs will probably be proper within the coronary heart of communities – making it actually handy for individuals who expertise ongoing psychological well being challenges to get help once they want it. We’ll even be available to assist individuals who use our companies with different elements of their life which could be affected by and exacerbate psychological well being challenges together with relationships, leisure and socialising, lodging, funds, employment, coaching and schooling.”

Dr David Chapman, Scientific Psychological Well being Lead for the Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West Built-in Care Board (which is liable for commissioning and funding of native well being and care companies) stated: “Our precedence is to assist individuals with severe and sophisticated psychological well being sickness lead higher lives with the help they want. Keystone hubs will assist these sufferers by offering them with entry to a workforce of devoted psychological well being professionals of their communities throughout Oxfordshire. This new NHS service will even allow GPs to work very intently with well being workers within the hubs to make sure their sufferers obtain care and therapy nearer to their properties making it simpler to get the help they require.”

Chief Govt of Elmore Group Companies, one of many third sector Keystone suppliers, Tom Hayes stated: “Elmore’s caseworkers play a vital function, offering help to individuals with psychological ailing well being nearer to their properties and communities. Our caseworkers work intently with our NHS colleagues to supply versatile and person-centred help. Elmore is proud to be supporting the brand new psychological well being hubs and belong to the Oxfordshire Psychological Well being Partnership.”

Councillor Phil Chapman, Cherwell District Council’s Portfolio Holder for Wholesome and Protected Communities, stated: “This new Keystone hub is a good addition to Fort Quay and Banbury city centre. Psychological well being is a key part of individuals’s wellbeing, and fortunately the popularity that it’s okay to hunt assist when it’s essential is changing into more and more widespread. Entry to this help in a central and handy location can solely be a superb factor for the wellbeing of our residents and communities.”

Oliver Wren, Centre Director at Fort Quay, stated: “It is a massively welcome addition to the centre. The entire Banbury neighborhood stands to learn from this hub by means of entry to high-quality, psychological well being care inside a handy, native setting. Serving to individuals handle their psychological well being, andultimately reside a greater life, is one thing we’re very proud to help.”

Keystone Psychological Well being & Wellbeing Hub Open Monday to Friday. Seeing sufferers by appointment 9am to 5pm. Obtainable for the general public to name in 10am to 2pm. Contact 01865 904872; keystone.banbury@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk