Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides a wide range of community health services across
Birmingham
Birmingham ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. It is the second-largest city in the United Kingdom with a population of 1.145 million in the city proper, 2.92 million in the West ...
and the West Midlands, England. It became an NHS
Foundation Trust
A foundation trust is a semi-autonomous organisational unit within the National Health Service in England. They have a degree of independence from the Department of Health and Social Care (and, until the abolition of SHAs in 2013, their local s ...
in March 2016.
It planned to merge with
Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is an NHS foundation trust which provides mental health services in Sandwell and Wolverhampton, specialist health services for people with learning disabilities in Dudley, Walsall, Sandwell and Wolve ...
and
Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust was an NHS trust set up in October 2008. It provides mental health services across Dudley and Walsall, West Midlands, England. It runs Dorothy Pattison Hospital and Bloxwich Hospital in Wal ...
in October 2017. The new organisation was projected to have an annual turnover of around £440 million – making it the third biggest mental health trust in England.
See also
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List of NHS trusts
This list of NHS trusts in England provides details of current and former English NHS trusts, NHS foundation trusts, acute hospital trusts, ambulance trusts, mental health trusts, and the unique Isle of Wight NHS Trust. , 217 extant trusts empl ...
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Healthcare in West Midlands
Healthcare in the West Midlands was, until July 2022, the responsibility of five clinical commissioning groups: Birmingham and Solihull, Sandwell and West Birmingham, Dudley, Wolverhampton, and Walsall.
History
From 1947 to 1974 NHS services in t ...
References
Community health NHS trusts
Health in the West Midlands (county)
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