Mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough visits our Trust
Chair Eileen Milner and CEO Steve Grange have welcomed Paul Bristow, Mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, to the Trust.
Mr Bristow was taken on a tour of our Fulbourn Hospital site by Deputy Chief Nurse Mike Seaman and Amanda Barrett, Associate Director of Nursing and Quality with the Children, Young People and Families directorate.
He spent time at Springbank - the award-winning in-patient recovery unit for women with a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder - with occupational therapist Duncan Lewis, before being shown round Denbigh Ward, a specialist dementia unit by ward manager Raminder Chohan.
Mr Bristow had a demonstration of how virtual reality is being used to train colleagues by Shraddha Sharma from the Learning and Organisational Development Team before hearing about the Trust’s ground-breaking research work from Director of Research and Development, Dr Ben Underwood and Deputy Director Rasha DeMarco.
The visit ended with a roundtable discussion on the Trust’s role in community healthcare with the Chair, CEO, Non-Executive Director Dr Mike Knapton and Isobel Wilkerson, Associate Director of Nursing and Quality with the Older People and Adult Community directorate.
Eileen said: “It was great to welcome Paul. Like our Trust, the Mayor has a responsibility for the entirety of the population of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.
"Devolution policy suggests that a greater responsibility will fall to the Combined Authority and from that point of view, the roles of the Trust and our Trust share the same levels of impact, scale, and ambition.”
CPFT provides community physical health services for older people and adults with long-term conditions, mental health services, children’s community services in Peterborough, and learning disability services. The Trust is also renowned for its research and development work and, in June 2025, was awarded Teaching Partner status by the University of Cambridge.
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