Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (CWP) provides mental health services, learning disability services and substance misuse services across
Cheshire
Cheshire ( ) is a ceremonial and historic county in North West England, bordered by Wales to the west, Merseyside and Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east, and Staffordshire and Shropshire to the south. Cheshire's county t ...
and
Wirral, England. Additionally it provides various specialist services in
Liverpool,
Bolton,
Warrington,
Halton and
Trafford, and
community health services Community health refers to simple health services that are delivered by laymen outside hospitals and clinics. Community health is also the subset of public health that is taught to and practiced by clinicians. Community health volunteers and com ...
in Western Cheshire.
CWP has around 15,000 foundation trust members. It employs more than 3,400 staff across 65 sites and serves a population of over a million people.
In July 2013 the trust selected
Ryhurst Ltd
Ryhurst Ltd is a specialist provider of health estate management services in England. The firm is based in Sussex.
Ryhurst formerly delivered new NHS facilities via the Private Finance Initiative. It built Lymington New Forest Hospital, which ope ...
as preferred bidder for a comprehensive range of Facilities Management services in a partnership which will last for an initial 15-year period, with an option to extend for a further five years.
Facilities
The trust runs a Health and Education Assessment Unit at Adcote House where
Pets as Therapy
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are involved. It runs three
general practices in Cheshire: Old Hall Surgery in
Ellesmere Port, Westminster Surgery and Willaston Surgery, taken over as the practices could not recruit new partners.
Performance
It was named by the ''
Health Service Journal
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History
The '' Poor Law Officers' Journal'' was established in 1892. In 1930, it changed its name after ...
'' as one of the top hundred NHS trusts to work for in 2015. At that time it had 2,986 full-time equivalent staff and a sickness absence rate of 5.61%. 67% of staff recommend it as a place for treatment and 61% recommended it as a place to work. In the 2016 NHS Staff Survey it did best of all mental health, learning disability and community trusts.
References
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NHS foundation trusts
Health in Cheshire
Medical and health organisations based in Merseyside