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Cambridge 105 Radio presenter Leigh Chambers interviewed psychiatrist Dr Muzaffer Kaser and occupational health nurse specialist Diane Hegley to find out more about CPFT's new Staff Mental Health Service for Mental Health Awareness Week 2021. NHS staff across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough can access this pioneering service run by CPFT providing specialist mental health care and support for NHS Trust staff dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic. For more information, visit: www.cpft.nhs.uk/smhs

CPFT Arts Therapies Lead Kimberley Iyemere and Music Therapist Valentini Toubari talk to Cambridge 105 Radio presenter Suzie Thorpe about the effects of the arts and creative activity on mental and physical health, and the CPFT Choir.

Find out more about CPFT's specialist service for assessing adults who may have Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and their new library of autism resources for the community. Consultant clinical psychologist and autism lead Dr Janine Robinson and clinical psychologist Dr Andrea Woods joined Suzie Thorpe at Cambridge 105 Radio for an interview in World Autism Month.

CPFT called for people in the community to be part of research in Dementia Action Week 2019. Research nurse and dementia team manager Siobhán Coleman and Dr Leonidas Choularias, clinical lecturer and psychiatrist from the Windsor Research Unit, met presenter Suzie Thorpe at Cambridge 105 radio to discuss the role of research nurses, why more people should join dementia research studies, and what they involve. Contact wru@cpft.nhs.uk 01223 219531 to find out more and refer patients.

Professor John O'Brien and Allison Bentley, CPFT dementia research nurse, discuss the causes and symptoms of, and treatments for, dementia, and current and future research into a . John is an Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at CPFT and Professor of Old Age Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge. Allison has developed a special interest in the physical (autonomic) symptoms associated with Lewy body disease. She has recently been awarded a scholarship from the Florence Nightingale Foundation to complete her PhD. Transcripts are available here: http://www.cpft.nhs.uk/Latest-news/AI-and-VR---CPFT-experts-share-vision-of-healthcare-in-podcasts.htm

Dr Rudolf Cardinal discussing the importance of electronic databases to further scientific and health knowledge and research. Dr Cardinal is an honorary consultant in general adult liaison psychiatry. He is also a university lecturer at the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge. Transcripts are available here: http://www.cpft.nhs.uk/Latest-news/AI-and-VR---CPFT-experts-share-vision-of-healthcare-in-podcasts.htm

Dr Emilio Fernandez is a consultant psychiatrist and lead clinician at CPFT’s Clozapine Clinics. In this episode he discusses the nature of schizophrenia, the treatments and research into this area of mental health. Clozapine is the gold standard for treatment resistant schizophrenia (TRS), a group of patients suffering with the severe end of the disorder. Transcripts are available here: http://www.cpft.nhs.uk/Latest-news/AI-and-VR---CPFT-experts-share-vision-of-healthcare-in-podcasts.htm

Dr Annabel Price talks about the innovative CPFT service offering people with cancer mental health support.