Service Development

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is developing a recovery college in Lincoln to provide a range of courses and resources for service users, families, friends, carers and NHS staff.

The college aims to support people to take more control over their own lives by encouraging them to become experts in their own self-care. The college will also educate family members, friends, carers and other NHS staff to better understand mental health conditions and how best to support people in their recovery journey.

The recovery college will take over the present site occupied by the day hospital at the Peter Hodgkinson Centre, located at the rear of Lincoln County Hospital.

The day ward does not have an official closure date although the services provided have reduced a great deal over the last several months. The staff that were based in it full time are now largely working within other teams but if the acute inpatient areas identify someone who needs to attend for a specific reason the service will ensure that there are people available to support them as part of a planned period of care, usually linked to the crisis and home treatment team involvement that they are receiving. The need for this however has been minimal and it is hoped that once the recovery college is firmly established within the Trust we will be able to provide a broad enough health, wellbeing and educational timetable, running alongside the Managed Care Network provision, to meet everybody’s needs in a meaningful way.