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On Friday 5 October, local schoolchildren will be designing and creating bespoke Zimmer frames for patients on Brunswick Ward at Mill View Hospital in Hove. 

To mark the first Allied Health Professionals (AHP’s) day on 15 October clinicians from Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust will be holding events in Worthing and Crawley to highlight the crucial and often unsung role Allied Health Professionals play in the NHS. 

Sussex was painted purple this week after an NHS mental health charity asked for local people to get involved and raise awareness of the importance of mental health.

Sussex Partnership has teamed up with National Numeracy to support staff across the Trust who want to improve their everyday maths skills.

Hospital staff in Brighton, Hove and Haywards Heath are going to receive specialist training to improve their knowledge, skills and confidence when working with children and young people who are experiencing mental health difficulties whilst in hospital or attending A&E in a mental health crisis.  

This year's annual event held in Worthing will take place 8-13 October at Offington Park Methodist Church. With a full programme of events including presentations from Sussex Partnership's Chief Finance Officer, Sally Flint, a talk from James Withey, author of the Recovery Letters and training with Grassroots Suicide Prevention on how to talk to someone who is feeling suicidal, it is set to be a very useful and informative event. 

Are you caring, compassionate and looking for a job that makes a real difference? Then why not join our team at Lindridge care community in Hove. 

Heads On, Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust’s charity, is asking everyone to ‘Paint It Purple’ on Wednesday 10 October to mark World Mental Health Day.

An art exhibition in Eastbourne, which explores a local man’s journey through psychosis, is hoping to raise awareness of mental illness and raise vital funds for a mental health charity.

Tonight's BBC Panorama focuses on NHS child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS). We were asked for comment and here is what we said.