About Us

Pfizer Inc. is a research-based, global pharmaceutical company. We discover and develop innovative, value-added products that improve the quality of life of people around the world and help them enjoy longer, healthier and more productive lives. The company has three business segments: pharmaceutical, animal health and consumer health care. Our products are available in more than 150 countries.

Pfizer Limited is the principal subsidiary in the United Kingdom of the world-wide Pfizer company.

Pfizer has been in the UK since the 1950's and currently employs over 6,000 people in the discovery, development, manufacture and marketing of human and animal medicines.

The research division has its European headquarters on the site in Sandwich, Kent and the UK Operating Group's site is at Walton Oaks in Surrey.

Breakthrough is a well-established, nationally recognised mental health consultancy offering a service user perspective to qualitative research and training.

Breakthrough's main objectives are:-

• To seek the views of a broad range of people including both those who use, and those who work in, mental health services
• To identify and disseminate information on positive practice
• To use the findings from qualitative research to influence thinking in mental health policy
• To improve public understanding of mental health issues
• To showcase the creative talents of service users through Reflections magazine

 Working together to help everyone affected by severe mental illness, including schizophrenia, to recover a better quality of life through:

• reaching people early
• helping people affected to recover a meaningful and fulfilling life
• supporting the people who are most disabled
• changing attitudes and tackling discrimination

PriMHE exists principally to help Primary Health Care Professionals achieve and deliver the best standards of mental health care. As a unique multi-partner charity, PriMHE supports its 2,000 members and has a 'bubble-up' ethos enthusing people to implement policy and practice through networking and the sharing of good work.

It espouses a whole system approach to care, centred on the service user and their needs through its website, discussion forum, presentations, meetings, Journal and especially designed Toolkits.

Depression Alliance is the leading UK charity for people with depression. We work to relieve and to prevent this treatable condition by providing information, support and understanding to those who are affected by it. We also campaign to raise awareness amongst the general public about the realities of depression.

About depression - why we are needed:

Depression is a feeling of persistent sadness, involving feelings of helplessness and hopelessness. It involves not only mood but also feelings of being physically ill and of not being able to think clearly. It is one of the most common conditions in the UK, affecting at least one in five people during their lifetime. It is also one of the most misunderstood. We believe that the lack of accurate information surrounding depression continues to prevent those affected from seeking and finding help when it is required.

No-one should fear depression; the vast majority of people affected will make full recovery after appropriate treatment. Successful treatment can involve a variety of different approaches, including self-help, psychotherapy, or medication. Depression Alliance is committed to offering people with depression information about the options available so that they can work with their doctor to make an informed decision about their own treatment.

As a group, people with persistent depression suffer severe impairment in their quality of life, including their ability to sustain close relationships and work activities. Informed by the experiences of people with depression and by our research, we work with government agencies and healthcare professionals to improve the service provision for those affected by depression.

How we work:

A member-led organisation, we have offices in England, Scotland and Wales. We co-ordinate a national network of self-help groups so that people with depression can share experiences and coping strategies with others in similar situations, and produce a unique series of free publications which offer advice and information on depression and related topics. We also offer a range of mutual support services for our members.

Start in Salford provides arts training and opportunities
for people of all ages experiencing mental ill-health or social exclusion.

Start encourages the development of an individual's artistic ability in a creative and supportive environment.

If you would like to know more about Start or our projects, or you would like to refer a client or be referred please contact Bernadette Conlon, Project Manager, on 0161 736 2675.

Our Vision

Working together to achieve your potential for health
The Trust provides a range of services for people with mental ill health in the Coventry area. These include Adult Mental Health Services with an in-patient facility at the Caludon Centre of three sector based wards and an
intensive therapy unit, a day hospital, outpatients department and community services.

The Community services include:

• 3 sector based Case management teams
• 3 Primary Care teams
• Assessment and treatment team
• Assertive Outreach Network
• Transcultural (mainly south Asian) team
• Perinatal service and interpretation service

• Chiropody
• Wheelchair/Medical aids
• Speech & Language Therapy
• Community Dental Health services
• Adult and Paediatric Community Physiotherapy
• Community Macmillan Nurses
• Occupational Therapy services
• District Nursing
• Health Visiting
• Womens Health and Information centre
• Child and Family Services
• Childrens' Nursing and a walk in clinic

The 'South of Tyne and Wearside Mental Health NHS Trust' established the 1st April 2002 is responsible for the delivery of mental health services to the people living in - Gateshead, South Tyneside, Sunderland, and North Easington. The Trust also provides Learning Disability services to the people of Sunderland.

The trust will employ approximately 2,000 staff and serve a population of 675,000 with an annual budget of over £50 million.

Our key commitment is to deliver local services for local people in response to service-user needs and local commissioning priorities. The Trust will benefit from well-established partnerships with social services and primary care to provide a seamless service for people with mental health problems. It will continue to provide a strong voice for mental health services within the localities its serves.

Services will be delivered from a number of hospital and community sites within each locality. The main hospital sites being the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Gateshead, South Tyneside General Hospital as well as Cherry Knowle Hospital, and Monkwearmouth Hospital, which are both in Sunderland.

Access to art is recognised as having a valuable part to play in laying the foundations for an inclusive community. Enjoyment derived from exploring our creativity transcends disability issues and cultural diversity whilst enriching our society.

NAL provides a unique service within the mental health field, certainly within London, if not in the UK. We see ourselves as a community enterprise offering its members opportunities to explore their true potential. We aim to give our members the self-confidence and the desire to utilise the undoubted skills that their own self-worth and self-confidence often tends to make them unaware of.

We all need to feel safe, to have a purpose, to be involved. NAL members work as a team; everyone has say in the day to day running as well as being involved in its development. NAL is not just artists, there are many members that work behind the scenes, gaining experience in administration, accounts, bookkeeping, cleaning or working on sales/marketing and publicity. When the Project was set up in 1996 one of the main wishes of the founder members was to work in a non-clinical environment. Staff is kept to a minimum; there are two paid staff working full time and an occupational therapist technician two half days per week

All members come together to work on the commission pieces. These commissions are extremely valuable to NAL as they not only generate income, but allow people to work as a team in developing a larger project over a period of time, from its creative inception to sourcing materials and finally working together to produce the piece.

NIMHE aims to improve the quality of life for people of all ages who experience mental distress. Working beyond the NHS we help all those involved in mental health to implement change, providing a gateway to learning and development.