8th January 2026

Review of 2025 – making a difference in our community         

In the year that we celebrated our 15^th birthday, Your Healthcare has continued to enjoy a well-deserved reputation for providing high-quality care to service users and vital support to their carers and families. Feedback is extremely good and stories of how YH teams have gone the extra mile are commonplace.

As a social enterprise, YH has a responsibility not only to deliver care, but also to contribute to the local community. 

During 2025, there were many examples of teams and individuals having an impact both locally and across the wider healthcare landscape.

In April, members of our Neurodevelopmental team hosted Art, Meaning and Diagnosis, which showcased the creative talents of neurodivergent artists. The exhibition was such a success that it will be repeated in Spring 2026, again at Kingston’s Stanley Picker Gallery – immediately following an exhibition by Nnena Kalu, who was awarded the Turner prize in early December.

Our outreach work with children and young people has expanded this year, and in addition to events at Tolworth Girls’, Chessington and Hollyfield schools, colleagues from our people team organised a popular stand at an engagement event at Kingston Hospital which involved partners from across SW London. The event welcomed over 100 students from local schools who had an interest in health and social care as a potential future career path.

Our teams have also delivered outreach programmes to girl guides (podiatry), organised a picnic to support new mothers (infant feeding) and taken part in play days (health visiting), street parties for children with additional needs (children’s speech and language therapy) and other community events such as Chessington Day (health visiting and school health). Our Neurodevelopmental team enjoyed working with local CIC, Express, to run face-to-face events for young people transitioning to adult services.

YH expertise is also sought by partners in academia and publishing. Ali Child, frontline service lead, contributed to a well-regarded textbook, ‘A Clinician’s Survival Guide to District Nursing,’ earlier this year, and Rebecca Geraghty-Staunton, lead nurse in the urology, colorectal and continence service, featured in a new national training video, ‘Psychological Readiness Masterclass,’ which focused on assessing the preparedness of patients when beginning certain treatments. 

In May, Birthe Andersen, falls prevention service lead, presented at a national conference and exhibition which focussed on the transformative role of digital technology in preventing falls, and Julian Morris, Consultant Clinical Psychologist and service lead for psychology, attended the British Psychological Society’s Faculty for People with Intellectual Disabilities annual conference, delivering a presentation on national guidance he has been involved in drafting. In September a paper submitted by YH’s Neurodevelopmental team, on outcome measures for adult community learning disability services, was accepted by the BPS (British Psychological Society) Bulletin of the Faculty for People with Intellectual Disabilities. Samantha Berge and Shona Burton, behaviour analysts from the team, also presented work on the Needle Desensitisation Clinic at the UK Society for Behaviour Analysis annual conference.  

Our district nursing team has taken part in a number of public-facing initiatives, including media activity around urgent community response – improving awareness of the service among local residents and commissioners.

The children’s speech and language therapy team has had a remarkable year. In addition to a programme of activities to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists, March saw Cath Lowry, operational lead, present work on outcome tools at a conference run by the College, and two university collaborations have seen the launch of a new BSc course in Speech and Language Therapy at the University of Roehampton and our own therapists delivering part of a pre-registration Speech and Language Therapy degree course at the University of Greenwich. Kauthar Fatadin, specialist speech and language therapist, and Georgia Sparrow, speech and language therapy apprentice, were pleased to be asked to share their experience of the speech and language therapy degree apprenticeship as part of a nationwide webinar series organised by the South West London AHP Faculty, Birmingham University and the University of Essex.

Ed Montogmery, Your Healthcare’s managing director, commented: “Each one of these programmes contributes in some way to furthering knowledge and expertise of individual professions – to the benefit of everyone. It is part of our ethos as a social enterprise to add ‘social value’ to what we do, and was highlighted by our local MP, Sir Ed Davey, in his recent book, ‘Why I care and why care matters’. Sir Ed stated: “For me, Your Healthcare is a model of how we should reform the state’s role in health and social care services – by being locally focused.

“At Your Healthcare we are used to working in a challenging NHS environment and this is likely to continue in 2026. But I am confident that we have the skills, determination and resilience to provide high-quality care for our community, while at the same time using our expertise to play a leading role in the evolution of local health and social care services.”

Watch the video below to see some of our highlights in 2025.