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Wakefield and Pontefract Community Health NHS Trust was a community health trust which served the Wakefield metropolitan district, West Yorkshire providing community, mental health and learning disability services.
History
The trust was formed on 1 April 1993 and operated from a number of locations including Fieldhead Hospital, The Yorkshire Centre for Forensic Psychiatry (also known as Newton Lodge) the formerCastleford, Normanton and District Hospital
The Castleford, Normanton and District Hospital was a health facility in Lumley Street, Castleford, West Yorkshire, England. It was managed by South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
History
The facility was commissioned in 1924 ...
, Southmoor Hospital and Ackton Hospital (all now closed) and numerous health centres and other standalone units across the Wakefield district.
The headquarters for the trust was called Fernbank and was located at 3-5 St. John’s North, Wakefield which upon disestablishment of the trust in 2002, the buildings were returned to residential occupation with the four-storey office block connected to the main building at the rear was refurbished and converted into flats.
Disestablishment
The trust was disestablished on 1 April 2002 when the mental health services were taken over by South West Yorkshire Mental Health NHS Trust which also took over mental health services in Kirklees andCalderdale
Calderdale is a metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, England, whose population in 2020 was 211,439. It takes its name from the River Calder, and dale, a word for valley. The name Calderdale usually refers to the borough through which the u ...
. The community health services were taken over by the newly created Wakefield West and Eastern Wakefield primary care trust
Primary care trusts (PCTs) were part of the National Health Service in England from 2001 to 2013. PCTs were largely administrative bodies, responsible for commissioning primary, community and secondary health services from providers. Until 31 May ...
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