DIAMONDS Update 19th October 2023
Participant Update - We now have 170 participants recruited to our DIAMONDS randomised controlled trial!

During October our very own Claire Carswell has been busy presenting about the DIAMONDS programme!

On the 10th October our research fellow Claire Carswell presented DIAMONDS at the NIHR CRN Mental Health and Addictions Research Conference in York.
The conference was held to celebrate current research activity and also to look at future collaborative opportunities to develop research aligned with the wider national and regional strategic aims for mental health and addictions. The conference featured the following topics:
• Early life and prevention
• Mental health and multimorbidity
• Addictions
The following day, 11th October, Claire and Angie Ross, DIAMONDS Voice Lead presented about DIAMONDS to the "Help from Experts by Experience for Researchers"(HEER) group at Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. Find out more about HEER below.

HEER - Who are we?
A group of service users and carers established in 2006
• who are passionate about research
• with lived and learned experience
• who feel that mental health research can be better when we work together
• coordinated through the Research and
New site open for recruitment!
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust have recently joined the DIAMONDS trial team and are now officially open for recruitment!

Current sites open for recruitment.

The following sites are currently recruiting:
Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust
Tees, Esk and Wear Valley NHS Foundation Trust
Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust
Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust
South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust
Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust
Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
South West London & St Georges NHS Mental Health Trust
Devon Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Cambridge and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust