The Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust was created in June 2018 by a merger of

Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Partnership NHS Trust Staffordshire and Stoke On Trent Partnership NHS Trust was the biggest integrated health and social care NHS organisation in England. It intended to become an NHS Foundation Trust, but it is not clear that the rules permitted a social care provid ...

and the

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 ...

. It provides physical and mental health, learning disabilities and adult social care services. It forecast an annual turnover of more than £500 million. No more than 40 redundancies among the 8,500 staff were expected because of the merger. It uses Nasstar’s OneConsultation platform for secure online consultations. This was installed across the trust in March 2020 hurriedly because of the

COVID-19 pandemic in England The COVID-19 pandemic was first confirmed to have spread to England with two cases among Chinese nationals staying in a hotel in York on 31 January 2020. The two main public bodies responsible for health in England are NHS England and Public ...

. More than 80,000 online consultations had taken place by February 2022.

References

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