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Engagement@Combined 2026 – our biggest event yet

Colleagues at the event pose for a group photo

Stakeholders from across Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent came together this week for a fabulous Engagement@Combined event.

This was our third year hosting our stakeholder, service user and carer event, and it has truly gone from strength to strength.

This is down to sheer commitment and dedication from our staff, service users and stakeholder organisations, and we would like to extend a huge thank you to everyone for showing up and participating in this engagement event. The power, energy, and ‘can‑do’ attitude in the room were both heart‑warming and encouraging, highlighting the strength of what we offer to our community members with mental health, learning disability and neurodiverse needs.

Many of the attendees commented on the momentum we have built together, and we are keen to keep this moving forward. We are committed to exploring how we can sustain these partnerships and make the most of the unique assets, experiences, and resources that everyone brings. Our ambition is to work in genuine partnership—helping to reach communities that may currently feel out of reach, and collaborating in ways that are meaningful, balanced, and mutually beneficial for everyone involved in delivering or receiving services.

You can watch a highlight film from the day by clicking here.

Recent updates

Combined Healthcare, alongside other organisations within Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, are looking for organisations that are key contributors to serving our community’s health and social needs for our local population who would be interested in providing stretch placements for the 2026-2027 cohort of the High Potential Scheme (HPS).
Colleagues pose for a photo at the Oliver McGowan training recruitment day
On Thursday 4 June 2026 Combined Healthcare hosted an Oliver McGowan Training Recruitment Day. The Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training on Learning Disability and Autism is named after Oliver McGowan, whose death shone a light on the need for health and social care staff to have better training.  All colleagues at Combined Healthcare are required to complete the Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training on Learning Disability and Autism. To help facilitate the sessions, the Trust is looking to employ more experts with lived experience of autism or learning disability, to support this essential training as co-facilitators.

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