Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, based in
Nottinghamshire
Nottinghamshire (; abbreviated Notts.) is a landlocked county in the East Midlands region of England, bordering South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west. The traditi ...
, England, manages the UK’s largest and most integrated Forensic High Secure facility
Rampton Hospital
Rampton Secure Hospital is a high-security psychiatric hospital near the village of Woodbeck between Retford and Rampton in Nottinghamshire, England. It is one of three high-security psychiatric hospitals in England, alongside Ashworth Hospital ...
near
Retford
Retford (), also known as East Retford, is a market town in the Bassetlaw District in Nottinghamshire, England, and one of the oldest English market towns having been granted its first charter in 1105. It lies on the River Idle and the Chesterfie ...
(which covers specialist services such as the High Secure Personality Disorder (PD) pathway including Dangerous and Severe PD), High Secure Women’s, High Secure Deaf, High Secure Learning Disability and Autistic as well as High Secure Men’s Mental Health), two medium secure units,
Arnold Lodge
Arnold Lodge is a medium secure psychiatric hospital situated in Leicester, England, run by Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
History
The hospital was opened in July 1983 and an extension with 30 extra beds was opened in 2007.
...
in
Leicester
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The city l ...
and Wathwood Hospital in
Rotherham
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, and a low Secure Unit, the Wells Road Centre at
Mapperley
Mapperley is a residential and commercial area of north-eastern Nottingham, England. The area is bounded by Sherwood to the north-west, Thorneywood to the south and Gedling to the east.
History
At various periods the terms 'Mapperley' and 'Ma ...
in
Nottingham
Nottingham ( , East Midlands English, locally ) is a city status in the United Kingdom, city and Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England. It is located north-west of London, south-east ...
.
The Trust provides Forensic services, Offender Health services, Community Mental Health services and community general physical health services across 200 plus sites throughout Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire and Leicestershire.
Foundation Trust
As a provider of high security mental health care it was directly accountable to the Secretary of State for Health, not to
Monitor
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. For this reason it was described as an Equivalent
NHS foundation trust
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, one of three. The other two are
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 ...
and
West London Mental Health NHS Trust. It was awarded Foundation Trust status in March 2015.
Services
It also provides health care at a number of prisons, and both mental health and community services across
Nottinghamshire
Nottinghamshire (; abbreviated Notts.) is a landlocked county in the East Midlands region of England, bordering South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west. The traditi ...
.
It runs John Eastwood Hospice and Millbrook Mental Health Unit in
Sutton In Ashfield
Sutton-in-Ashfield is a market town in Nottinghamshire, England, with a population of 48,527 in 2019. It is the largest town in the district of Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, Ashfield,
four miles west of Mansfield, two miles from the Derbyshir ...
, Newark Community Rehabilitation Unit, Newark Clinic and Ollerton Clinic in
Ollerton
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and
Newark-on-Trent
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, Bassetlaw Hospice and Retford Clinic in
Retford
Retford (), also known as East Retford, is a market town in the Bassetlaw District in Nottinghamshire, England, and one of the oldest English market towns having been granted its first charter in 1105. It lies on the River Idle and the Chesterfie ...
,
Bassetlaw Hospital
Bassetlaw District General Hospital is a National Health Service hospital in Worksop, Nottinghamshire. It is managed by the Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
History
The hospital has its origins in the Kilton Hil ...
and Worksop Clinic in
Worksop
Worksop ( ) is a market town in the Bassetlaw District in Nottinghamshire, England. It is located east-south-east of Sheffield, close to Nottinghamshire's borders with South Yorkshire and Derbyshire, on the River Ryton and not far from the nor ...
, Stapleford Care Centre, Hucknall Health Centre, Arnold Lodge in
Leicester
Leicester ( ) is a city status in the United Kingdom, city, Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority and the county town of Leicestershire in the East Midlands of England. It is the largest settlement in the East Midlands.
The city l ...
, Harworth Clinic in
Doncaster
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, Mansfield Clinic and Mansfield Community Hospital, Dovecote Lane in
Beeston, Nottinghamshire
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, Duncan Macmillan House (which is also the Trust Headquarters),
Nottingham City Hospital
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St Francis Unit,
Highbury Hospital
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in Greater London that was owned by Ranulf brother of Ilger and included all the areas north and east of Canonbury and Holloway Roads.
The manor house was situ ...
, Lings Bar Hospital, the Thorneywood Unit, Hopewood Centre
Nottingham
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, the Mary Potter Centre, Clifton Cornerstone, Park House Health & Social Care Centre, Meadows Health Centre, Broom Hill House, Wells Road Centre and the Strelley Health Centre in Nottingham.
Community health services, formerly provided by Nottinghamshire Community Health which was dissolved in April 2011, are now provided b
County Health Partnershipswhich is part of the Trust.
Nottinghamshire Healthcare also provide a wide range of healthcare known as Offender Health, this covers Prisons in Nottinghamshire such as
HMP Nottingham
HM Prison Nottingham is a Category B men's prison, located in the Sherwood area of Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England. The prison is operated by His Majesty's Prison Service.
History
The history of the prison stretches back to 1890, when it ...
,
HMP Whatton
HM Prison Whatton is a Category C men's prison, located in the village of Whatton, near Bingham in Nottinghamshire, England. The prison is operated by His Majesty's Prison Service, and houses males convicted of sexual offences.
Prison stru ...
,
HMP Lowdham Grange
HM Prison Lowdham Grange is a Category B men's private prison, located in the village of Lowdham (near Nottingham) in Nottinghamshire, England. The prison is currently operated by Serco. In August 2022, it was announced that following competiti ...
,
HMP Ranby
HM Prison Ranby is a Category C men's prison, located in the village of Ranby in Nottinghamshire, England. The prison is operated by His Majesty's Prison Service. It holds about 1000 male prisoners.
History
Ranby was converted in the early 1970 ...
Leicestershire area:
HMP Leicester
HM Prison Leicester is a Category B men's Local prison, located on Welford Road in the centre of Leicester, Leicestershire, England. The term 'local' means that the prison holds people on remand to the local courts, as well as sentenced priso ...
,
HMP Gartree
HM Prison Gartree is a Category B men's prison, located in Market Harborough, Leicestershire, England. Gartree is operated by His Majesty's Prison Service.
History
Constructed on the western part of the site which was previously RAF Market Harbo ...
and
HMP Stocken
HM Prison Stocken is a Category C men's prison located in the parish of Stretton, in the county of Rutland, England. Stocken is operated by His Majesty's Prison Service.
History
Built in 1985 as a Young Offenders Institution, HMP Stocken opened ...
Lincolnshire area:
HMP Lincoln
HM Prison Lincoln is a Category B men's prison, located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England. The prison is operated by His Majesty's Prison Service. A category B prison which allocates convicted prisoners within its catchment area.
History
Linco ...
,
HMP North Sea Camp and
Morton Hall Immigration Removal Centre
IRC Morton Hall is an Immigration Removal Centre located in the village of Morton Hall (near Lincoln) in Lincolnshire, England. The centre is operated by His Majesty's Prison Service, and was previously a women's prison.
History
Morton Hall was ...
.
In October 2013 the Trust was asked by the Care Quality Commission to assist in rehousing residents of failing nursing homes in Nottingham.
It plans to acquire Mansfield Hospital, a 64-bed hospital site with three units for men with autism spectrum disorder and learning disabilities, from
St Andrew's Healthcare
St Andrew's Healthcare is a large independent charity based at St Andrew's Hospital in Northampton, which provides psychiatric services. It also has sites in Essex, Birmingham and Nottinghamshire. It runs specialist services for adolescents, men, ...
in 2020.
Controversies
In 2008 the Trust had to defend legal challenges to the smoke-free legislation for mental health establishments (G & B v Nottinghamshire healthcare NHS Trust, N v Secretary of State for Health). Three patients at the Rampton Hospital brought a case arguing that their human rights were violated by the smoking ban as the Rampton was essentially their home and the ban was incompatible with Article 8 of the
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. Smoking outside could not reasonably be arranged and the ban meant there could be no designated rooms for smoking. The claims were dismissed and the patients appealed the decision to the Court of Appeal, which also dismissed their claim. The Courts ruled that it was legitimate to restrict a person's Article 8 rights for the protection of health.
An investigation by the BBC’s
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programme found half of 100 reviews of the trust on website
Patient Opinion had been written by staff. The trust claimed that staff were writing on behalf of vulnerable patients – such as the elderly or those with learning difficulties – who would otherwise have been unable to comment.
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has a contract to deliver the future estates strategy; the first phase is the delivery of a new children's project providing adolescent in-patient beds, a psychiatric intensive care unit and an in-patient perinatal unit.
It was named by the
Health Service Journal
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as one of the top hundred NHS trusts to work for in 2015. At that time it had 7780 full-time equivalent staff and a sickness absence rate of 5.58%. 63% of staff recommend it as a place for treatment and 55% recommended it as a place to work.
See also
*
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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