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Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust partners with We Can Talk

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust and We Can Talk have partnered to make mental health training available across the organisation.

Around 8,000 staff, students and volunteers at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust — a large acute trust providing general hospital services and specialist complex care to around 760,000 people across west Kent and East Sussex, and home to the Kent Oncology Centre — can now access the one-hour, all-age course designed to build confidence in supporting patients who attend hospital in a mental health crisis.

Accessing We Can Talk at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust

Staff, students and volunteers at the trust can access We Can Talk through the organisation’s unique registration link. If you work at the trust and haven’t yet received your access link, email team@wecantalk.com and we’ll provide it.

About We Can Talk

We Can Talk is a one-hour, self-directed mental health training course, created with people who have lived experience of attending hospital in a mental health crisis. It gives every member of hospital staff — clinical and non-clinical — the knowledge, skills and confidence to support patients in mental health crisis, building on the expertise they already have.

Bring We Can Talk to your trust

If you’d like to bring We Can Talk to your organisation, email robin@wecantalk.com to start a conversation.