A mental health trust provides health and social care services for people with

mental health Mental health encompasses emotional, psychological, and social well-being, influencing cognition, perception, and behavior. It likewise determines how an individual handles stress, interpersonal relationships, and decision-making. Mental health ...

disorders in

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. There are 54 mental health trusts. They are commissioned and funded by clinical commissioning groups. Patients usually access the services of mental health trusts through their GP (primary care medical doctor) or via a stay in hospital. Most of the services are for people who live in the region, although there may be specialist services for the whole of the UK or services that accept national referrals. Mental Health Trusts may or may not provide inpatient

psychiatric hospital Psychiatric hospitals, also known as mental health hospitals, behavioral health hospitals, are hospitals or wards specializing in the treatment of severe mental disorders, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, dissociative ...

services themselves (they may form part of a general hospital run by a hospital trust). The various trusts work together and with local authorities and voluntary organisations to provide care.

Services

Services provided by mental health trusts vary but typically include: * Counselling sessions - one-to-one or in a group * Courses - such as on how to deal with stress, anger, and bereavement. Courses may also be available for carers of those with

disorders * Resources - such as leaflets and books on mental health issues *

Psychotherapy Psychotherapy (also psychological therapy, talk therapy, or talking therapy) is the use of psychological methods, particularly when based on regular personal interaction, to help a person change behavior, increase happiness, and overcome pro ...

- treatment sessions with a therapist. Commonly

cognitive behavioural therapy Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a psycho-social intervention that aims to reduce symptoms of various mental health conditions, primarily depression and anxiety disorders. CBT focuses on challenging and changing cognitive distortions (su ...

* Family support - providing support to the family, friends, and carers of those with a mental health problem. * Community drug and alcohol clinics - helping people to cope with

addiction Addiction is a neuropsychological disorder characterized by a persistent and intense urge to engage in certain behaviors, one of which is the usage of a drug, despite substantial harm and other negative consequences. Repetitive drug use o ...

* Community mental health houses - supported housing to help people live in the community * Day hospitals and day centres - short-term outpatient sessions with a

psychiatrist A psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in psychiatry, the branch of medicine devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, study, and treatment of mental disorders. Psychiatrists are physicians and evaluate patients to determine whether their sy ...

clinical psychologist Clinical psychology is an integration of social science, theory, and clinical knowledge for the purpose of understanding, preventing, and relieving psychologically based distress or dysfunction and to promote subjective well-being and persona ...

or other mental health professional, and drop-in centres for peer support and therapeutic activities. If more specialist hospital treatment is required, Mental Health Trusts will help with rehabilitation back into the community (

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). Trusts may operate

community mental health team Center for Mental Health Services''(CMHS), also known as community mental health teams (CMHT) in the United Kingdom, support or treat people with mental disorders ( mental illness or mental health difficulties) in a domiciliary setting, instead ...

s, which may include Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment, assertive outreach and early intervention services. The Mental Health Act 1983, Mental Health Act 2007 and Mental Capacity Act 2005 cover the rights, assessment and treatment of people diagnosed with a

mental disorder A mental disorder, also referred to as a mental illness or psychiatric disorder, is a behavioral or mental pattern that causes significant distress or impairment of personal functioning. Such features may be persistent, relapsing and remitti ...

who are judged as requiring to be detained ("sectioned") or treated against their will. A mental health trust will typically have a Mental Health Act team responsible for ensuring that the Act is administered correctly, including to protect the rights of inpatients, or of service users in the community who may now be under

community treatment order Outpatient commitment—also called assisted outpatient treatment (AOT) or community treatment orders (CTO)—refers to a civil court procedure wherein a legal process orders an individual diagnosed with a severe mental disorder to adhere to an o ...

s. The Care Quality Commission is the body with overall national responsibility for inspecting and regulating the operation of the mental health act by the regional trusts.

Capacity

According to the

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the number of beds for psychiatric patients was reduced by 44% between 2001 and 2017. An average of 726 mental health patients were placed in institutions away from their home area in 2016. Children of school age are normally treated through

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) is the name for NHS-provided services in the United Kingdom for children, generally until school-leaving age, who are having difficulties with their emotional well-being or are deemed to have pe ...

(CAMHS), usually organised by local government area. Young people who become psychiatric in-patients frequently are treated in adult wards due to lack of beds in wards that are suitable for people of their ages. Young people frequently stay in hospital wards when they are fit for discharge because the mental health support facilities they need are not available where they live.

List of MHTs

These are the mental health trusts in the NHS in England in 2017A-Z List of All NHS Mental Health Trusts in England
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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 ...

status – a type of trust that has more independence from government): * ²gether NHS Foundation Trust *

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 ...

Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust (AWP) is an NHS mental health trust providing adult mental health and related services in Wiltshire and the former county of Avon, an area centred on Bristol. Trust services The trust is he ...

Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) is a large provider of integrated mental health and community health services in North London, providing services across Barnet, Enfield, and Haringey. The trust currently employs around 3, ...

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and other community based health services, primarily to the resident population of the Royal County of Berkshire, England, in the United Kingdom. Berkshire Healthcare NHS ...

Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health care for people living in Birmingham and Solihull, England. It became a Foundation Trust in July 2008. Sue Davis CBE was appointed as the Chair for the Trust in N ...

Bradford District Care Trust Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health, dentistry, community health, and specialist learning disability services in Bradford, Keighley, Ilkley and Craven in Yorkshire, England. It achieved foundation trust status in ...

* Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust *

Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health, substance misuse services and care for people with learning disabilities in part of London, England. It operates on over twenty sites in Camden and Islington, but by far the larg ...

* Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust * Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust *

Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides community health services to children and young people and mental health and learning disability services to people of all ages across Cornwall, England. It runs Longreach House in Redruth, and B ...

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust was formed in 2006 and took over community services from NHS Coventry in April 2011. It provides mental health and learning disability services for people in Coventry and Warwickshire, England. A ...

Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest mental health and disability Trusts in England employing more than 7,000 staff, serving a population of approximately 1.7 million, providing services across an ar ...

Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist NHS provider of health services including mental health services, neurodevelopmental services (learning disabilities and autism), children's health services, drug and alcohol recovery se ...

* Devon Partnership NHS Trust * Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust *

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 Wals ...

* East London NHS Foundation Trust *

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust is an NHS foundation trust in North West England, with headquarters in Prestwich, near Manchester. It provides mental health services in Bolton, Salford and Trafford, inpatient alcohol and d ...

* Humber NHS Foundation Trust * Isle of Wight NHS Trust *

Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust was formed in April 2006 by a merger between East Kent NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust and West Kent NHS and Social Care Trust. The trust runs inpatient and community services for those ...

Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust, known as Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust until October 2019, provides a range of services including secondary mental health care, inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perin ...

* Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust * Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust * Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust *

Mersey Care NHS Trust Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust runs a specialist mental health trust and provides learning disabilities, addiction management, acquired brain injury services and the provision of community nursing and therapies services in The City of Liver ...

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) is a large mental health trust and an NHS Foundation Trust. It runs services in Norfolk and Suffolk, England, chiefly at Hellesdon Hospital, Norvic and Juilan Hospital in Norwich, Northgate in Gre ...

* North East London NHS Foundation Trust *

North Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust North Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust was an NHS Foundation Trust which provided mental health services in Essex, England. It had offices at Ipswich Road and Severalls House Complex in Colchester; the Chelmsford & Essex Centre, ...

* North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust *

Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (NHFT) is an NHS Foundation Trust (NHFT) founded 1 May 2009 which provides mental health and community services across Northamptonshire, England, and specialist services in prisons. NHFT manage ...

* North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust *

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, based in Nottinghamshire, England, manages the UK’s largest and most integrated Forensic High Secure facility Rampton Hospital near Retford (which covers specialist services such as the High Sec ...

* Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust *

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is a National Health Service trust named after the ancient Oxleas Woods between Bexley and Greenwich. Current status Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is an NHS Foundation Trust providing community health, mental health ...

Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust Pennine Care NHS Trust is an NHS foundation trust in northern England, providing mental health and learning disability services in parts of Greater Manchester and Derbyshire. It provides mental health and learning disability services in Bury, Ro ...

Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust The Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust, is a NHS Foundation Trust and Mental Healthcare Trust serving over 850,000 inhabitants of Doncaster, Rotherham and parts of South Humber. Its headquarters are situated at St Catheri ...

Sheffield Health & Social Care NHS Foundation Trust Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust is an NHS foundation trust which runs mental health and learning difficulty services in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. It runs the Central Health Clinic, Intensive Support Services, Jo ...

Somerset Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
* South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust * South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust *

South Staffordshire and Shropshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust South Staffordshire and Shropshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust ran the Birmingham Inpatient Drug Treatment Service, The Redwoods Centre, Oak House, and Elms House in Shrewsbury, St George's Hospital and the Flanagan Centre, Stafford, Geor ...

* South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust *

South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is a NHS trust which provides mental health, learning disability and community health care services in Calderdale, Kirklees, Wakefield and Barnsley. The trust also provides some of the medium ...

* Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust *

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is an NHS foundation trust in England formed by the merger of Surrey and Hampshire Borders, Surrey Oaklands and North West Surrey Partnership NHS trusts in April 2005, with an emphasis on the m ...

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust The Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health and learning disability services to the people of Brighton & Hove, East Sussex and West Sussex. The trust also provide some community services in Hampshire for children and you ...

Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health trust based in north London. The Trust specialises in talking therapies. The education and training department caters for 2,000 students a year from the United Kin ...

Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Trust The Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust is an NHS trust that provides mental health, learning disability and eating disorders services. It serves a population of around two million people living in County Durham, Darlington and most ...

West London NHS Trust West London NHS Trust is aNHS trustwhich provides mental and physical health services to the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith and Fulham and Hounslow. It also provides some services on a national basis, including forensic and high-securit ...

* Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

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Services

Capacity

List of MHTs

See also

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