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Priory Group Leads on Expert Forensic Mental Health Conference

March 2, 2010 by SallyPreston

Priory Group, the UK’s leading provider of independent mental health care, is bringing health experts together for a unique conference, which provides an insight into the field of forensic mental healthcare.

Forensic mental health services allow appropriate and effective treatment of extremely vulnerable people whose behaviours present a risk to themselves as well as others.

Stoke Care Home Welcomes Dignity Day

February 17, 2010 by SallyPreston

Amberley House in Stoke-on-Trent has chosen Dignity Action Day (25th Feb 2010) to showcase its facilities and services to health and social care professionals.

The home, which opened in April 2009, was the Priory Group’s first care home for older people in England,

Amberley House provides specialist and dementia nursing care in 76 single en-suite bedrooms, finished to the highest standard. There is also a choice of lounges and dining areas and an enclosed landscaped garden.

Priory warns of dangers of work-related stress

February 3, 2010 by SallyPreston

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PRIORY WARNS OF DANGERS OF WORK-RELATED STRESS

3/2/10

Doctors at the Priory Group, the UK’s leading independent provider of mental healthcare, are advising businesses to make a New Year resolution to tackle stress at work.

The Health and Safety Executive’s official definition of work-related stress is "The adverse reaction people have to excessive pressures or other types of demand placed on them at work."

Ben Receives Top Prize in Priory Essay Competition

January 8, 2010 by SallyPreston

BEN RECEIVES TOP PRIZE IN PRIORY ESSAY COMPETITION

8/1/10

18-year-old Ben Porter from Kent has scooped the top prize in a national literary competition.

The Priory Ryan McKay prize is awarded each year to the young person who submits the best non-fiction composition on a set topic related to mental and physical health. The subject for 2009 entries was ‘happy with the skin you are in’ and judges deemed that 18-year old Ben Porter’s entry was worthy of the £1,000 top prize.