Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (Bridgewater) is a leading provider of community health services in the northwest of England. In 2013/14 Bridgewater was responsible for providing community and specialised health services to 831,270 people living in Halton, St Helens, Warrington and Wigan. In addition Bridgewater provides community dental services in these areas plus Bolton, Tameside, Glossop, Stockport and western Cheshire. Its community services in St. Helens were taken over by a consortium of

St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust was formed in 1991, and is based in Whiston, Merseyside. It runs two hospitals: * Whiston Hospital - the primary site and trust headquarters providing emergency and acute inpatient services, ...

5 Boroughs Partnership NHS Foundation Trust North West Boroughs Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was an NHS foundation trust which provided mental health, learning disability and community health services in fifteen boroughs of North West England. The Trust delivered mental health and lea ...

and St Helens Rota in 2017. On 1 November 2014, Bridgewater became one of the first two NHS community healthcare trusts in the UK to achieve

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 ...

status. It took on contracts for

prison healthcare Prison healthcare is the medical specialty in which healthcare providers care for people in prisons and jails. Prison healthcare is a relatively new specialty that developed alongside the adaption of prisons into modern disciplinary institutions ...

at five prisons in the north west but decided to relinquish them all in 2019. Plans were drawn up for the Trust to take over

Liverpool Community Health NHS Trust Liverpool Community Health NHS Trust was one of the community health trusts created in 2012 under the Transforming Community Services programme. It provided controversial services for people at the end of their life, Liverpool Care Pathway later n ...

's contract, but were abandoned in March 2017 after

NHS Improvement NHS Improvement (NHSI) was a non-departmental body in England, responsible for overseeing the National Health Service's foundation trusts and NHS trusts, as well as independent providers that provide NHS-funded care. It supported providers to ...

intervened. The

Care Quality Commission The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is an executive non-departmental public body of the Department of Health and Social Care of the United Kingdom. It was established in 2009 to regulate and inspect health and social care services in England. I ...

rated Bridgewater as "requiring improvement" after an inspection in 2016. In 2019 it began discussions of a merger with

Warrington & Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 December 2008 from what was formerly known as North Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust. The trust comprises Warrington Hospital, Halton General Hospital in Runcorn and Houghton Hal ...

. It runs

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Urgent Treatment Centre.

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