Sometimes, when I’m lost in daily life, Eating Disorders Awareness Week feels a little bit pointless to me. The moment you walk through the door here at Ellern Mede Derby, you’re aware. From the poster talking about effective meal support, the board displaying all the...
Children’s Mental Health Week 2023 took place from 6-12 February 2023. This year’s theme was Let’s Connect and we encouraged people to make healthy, rewarding, and meaningful connections. New figures from Place2Be reveal that nearly 78% of young...
“Recovery is just a matter of learning to eat better,” “They just need to stay away from social media” are the thoughts I had prior to joining Ellern Mede as the new Marketing Officer. My experience working with mental health was minimal on the first day of my...
Today marked the observation of World Mental Health Day 2022. Whilst the pandemic has, and continues to, take its toll on our mental health, today brings us the chance to reconnect and provides us with an opportunity to improve our efforts to protect our mental...
A Royal College of Psychiatrists’ analysis of NHS Digital hospital admissions data for eating disorders shows 11,049 more admissions in the five years to 2020/21, compared to 2015/16. This is an increase of 84% reaching a total of 24,268 admissions. The full data set...
CQC ‘Good’ Rating on Five Key Lines of Enquiry The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has rated Ellern Mede Ridgeway as ‘Good’ in its latest inspection report published 9 May 2022. The CQC also identified two areas of Outstanding Practice. As well as the overall ‘Good’...
