Beech, our step down service for people who have been discharged from our inpatient wards, has converted a previously unused space into a new 24 hour gym area for people staying at the site.

The equipment was funded by kind donations to Sheffield Hospitals Charity and includes a rowing machine, treadmill, air bike and boxing pads.

And the team has even more plans to help service users get moving, thanks to the £500 we raised during our collective charity marathon, or charathon, last December!

This podcast was created by Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust (SHSC). Find out more about us at www.shsc.nhs.uk

This episode was produced by Matthew Drew.

We hear from four members of the lived experience research partnership (LERP).

The LERP is a group of people with an interest in research and lived experience of mental health. Together they help support our research development unit to ensure that coproduction and the voices of people with lived experience are at the heart of our research work.

In the podcast, Ellie, Emily, Gabby and Steve discuss:

This podcast was created by Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust (SHSC). Find out more about us at www.shsc.nhs.uk

This episode was produced by Matthew Drew.

5 July 2023 marked 75 years since the National Health Service was born. Join us as we take you into our joint celebration event which we hosted in partnership with Sheffield Hallam University, focusing on celebrating all the best bits of the NHS and inspiring the next generation of the workforce.

Hear from NHS and University experts, therapy dogs (or maybe their owners), event attendees, Sheffield's poet laureate Danae Wellington and some other Sheffield icons who shared special messages of thanks on the big day.

This podcast was created by Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust (SHSC). You can find out all about us at shsc.nhs.uk

This episode was produced by Matthew Drew and Alfie Robinson.

Body image - We see it in the media, we see it in newspapers, we see it on billboards, we see it on social media, we see it everywhere we look.

In this podcast for Eating Disorders Awareness Week Charlie Hockings, assistant psychologist at Sheffield Eating Disorders Service, looks at societal pressures on our perceptions of body image, what an eating disorder really is and how you can access support.

This podcast was created by Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust (SHSC). Mind:Set is also a magazine, which takes an in-depth look at some of the issues and topics which are on our minds at SHSC.

Find out more about Mind:Set magazine at shsc.nhs.uk/mindset

This episode was written and produced by Charlie Hockings and Matthew Drew.

In this podcast we take a look at the history, and the future, of mental health care in Sheffield.

This podcast was created by Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust (SHSC). This episode was originally an article in our Mind:Set magazine, which takes an in-depth look at some of the issues and topics which are on our minds at SHSC.

Find out more about Mind:Set magazine at shsc.nhs.uk/mindset

This episode was written and produced by Matthew Drew, with additional research by Holly Cubitt.

Regular physical activity reduces your risk of dementia and depression by 30%. But despite all of these benefits, just 61.4% of us in England are considered active.

In this podcast we talk about the mental health benefits of physical activity and give you some tips on how to get moving.

This podcast was created by Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust (SHSC). This episode was originally an article in our Mind:Set magazine, which takes an in-depth look at some of the issues and topics which are on our minds at SHSC.

Find out more about Mind:Set magazine at shsc.nhs.uk/mindset

Find out more about the local opportunities mentioned in the episode here:

This episode was written and produced by Matthew Drew.