Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust provides community health, mental health and learning disability services across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.
The care and support we provide includes community nursing and therapy services and care on community hospital wards, service for people with severe mental health problems and healthcare in prisons.
We don’t just care for people who are ill or injured, we also support people to stay well and prevent future problems.
We serve a population of one million people and spend in excess of £262 million of taxpayers’ money each year, and employ almost 6000 staff.
Our services are organised into four operational divisions
Adult mental health services
Adult learning disability services
Families, young people and children’s services
Community health services, which includes mental health services for older people
We work with family doctors (GPs), local hospitals, social services and other local authority departments such as housing and education.
We also work with voluntary organisations, local community groups and local people.
Most people are referred to our services by their GP. We deliver our services from many different locations including hospitals, longer term recovery units, outpatient clinics, day services, GP surgeries, children’s centres, schools, health centres, people’s own home, care homes and prisons.
We continually strive to improve the services we offer to make them the very best. For more information about our services visit
LYPFT provides specialist mental health and learning disability services to people within Leeds, York, Selby, Tadcaster, Easingwold and parts of North Yorkshire.
Service users are at the heart of our organisation. We constantly strive to provide the best possible care and support, working closely with related organisations to provide effective, accessible and modern mental health and learning disability services.
Working in partnership with our local communities, our core purpose is to improve the mental health and well being of the people who use our services.
Arts and Minds is a partnership project co-ordinated by LYPFT. Arts & Minds exists to champion the vital role of creativity in promoting inclusion, recovery and mental wellbeing. We also support individuals receiving health and social care services to engage with the cultural life of Leeds.
Our primary goal is to deliver the most appropriate mental and physical health and wellbeing services wherever and whenever the people of Manchester need them.
Partnership working is key to our successes, both with other organisations in the city and, more importantly, with those who use our services, enabling them to identify and achieve their personal goals.
We are a recovery-focused organisation and have achieved national demonstrator site status for our work in this area.
We are also a leading force in mental health research, attracting more funding than any other Trust outside London, and are a key partner in Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, using our research findings to influence all that we do.
At Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust we put the service user first and our aim is to provide each individual with a choice of treatments that are accessible to them.
The Trust provides mental health, substance misuse and learning disability services across Norfolk and Suffolk.
We believe in whole life and understand the importance of good physical health, maintaining relationships and achieving a balance between treatment and continuing an active life.
Dedicated specialist teams work closely with service users, their carers and families and other organisations to put together a plan of care suited to each individual.
The Trust has inpatient facilities across both counties with smaller bases in rural locations. Many of our services are offered in the community, enabling service users to receive the support they need in an environment familiar to them.
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Northumberland, Tyne & Wear NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest mental health and disability Trusts in England employing more than 6,000 staff, serving a population of approximately 1.4 million, providing services across an area totalling 2,200 square miles.
We work from over 100 sites across Northumberland, Newcastle, North Tyneside, Gateshead, South Tyneside, Sunderland and North Easington. We also have a number of regional and national specialist services.
Our priorities are to:
Modernise and reform services, in line with local and national strategies and the needs of individuals and communities, providing first class care in first class environments,
Be a sustainable and consistently high performing organisation,
Be a Model Employer, an Employer of Choice and an Employer that makes the best use of the talents of the entire workforce,
Fully embrace and support service user, carer, staff and public involvement, including our membership, in all aspects of our work,
Provide high quality evidence based and safe services supported be effective integrated governance arrangements,
Improve clinical and management decision making through the provision and development of effective information.
Be an influential organisation which supports and enables social inclusion;
Our services include:
Inpatient and community mental health services for adults and older people
Inpatient and community child and adolescent mental health
Learning disability services for adults and children
Nottinghamshire Healthcare is positive about providing integrated healthcare services, including mental health, learning disability and community health services.
Over 8,800 dedicated staff provide these services in a variety of settings, ranging from the community through to acute wards, as well as secure settings.
The Trust manages two medium secure units, Arnold Lodge in Leicester and Wathwood Hospital in Rotherham, and the high secure Rampton Hospital near Retford. It also provides healthcare in 12 prisons across the East Midlands and Yorkshire.
We will continually improve our services and our patient, service user and carer experience and at the same time reduce the stigma associated with mental illness and learning disability.
We are committed to being recognised as the leading national integrated healthcare provider – nationally important, locally relevant and personally valued.
South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (SEPT)
With an annual turnover of approximately £300m South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (SEPT) is one of the most successful Foundation Trusts in the country providing integrated care including mental health, learning disability, social care and community health services from over 200 locations. We provide these services across Bedfordshire, Essex and Luton and employ approximately 6,100 people and serve a population of 1.8 million.
We became one of the country’s first mental health and learning disability NHS Foundation Trusts in May 2006. In 2010 SEPT set a new record of seven Healthcare 100 award category wins and took first place and the enviable accolade of Top NHS Healthcare Employer. SEPT was also voted Top Mental Health Trust in the Healthcare 100 survey that names the top 100 healthcare providers to work for in the UK.
SEPT was successful in its bid to acquire Community Health Services in Bedfordshire, South East Essex and West Essex. These services have now transferred to SEPT and are being integrated with our already existing mental health services in Bedfordshire and South East Essex. In West Essex we will work closely with commissioners and providers of health services to ensure a comprehensive integrated service for the population. Whenever and wherever possible we will provide local services for local people.
Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH)
Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH) provides a range of services across Rotherham, Doncaster, North and North-East Lincolnshire and in Manchester.
The Trust specialises in delivering:
Inpatient and community mental health services for adults and older people
Child and adolescent mental health services
Learning disability services
Substance misuse services
Psychological therapy services
Forensic services
Community health services in Doncaster
RDaSH operates services in 260 locations including: The Woodlands; Swallownest Court, Rotherham; St Catherine’s, Doncaster; Great Oaks, Scunthorpe; 60 registered and supported living homes in a wide range of community settings.
We employ over 4,300 staff and have more than 200 committed volunteers.
Currently, approximately 111,426 people access our services – 34,011 in mental health and 77,415 in Doncaster community integrated services.
West London Mental Health NHS Trust is one of the largest and most diverse mental health services in the UK.
The Trust provides care and treatment for around 20,000 people each year and serve a local population of around 700,000 residents.
Services use the ‘recovery approach’ and include mental health care for adults, older people and children in the boroughs of Ealing, Hounslow and Hammersmith & Fulham.
The Trust also provides national services including the Gender Identity Clinic in Hammersmith and The Cassel Hospital, which provides care for people with severe and complex personality disorders.
Managing Broadmoor Hospital in Berkshire and the Forensic Services in Ealing makes the Trust a leading national provider of secure and specialist mental healthcare.
West London Mental Health Trust is committed to the highest standards of care and involves service users and carers in Trust business, staff training and on recruitment panels.
It has a strong mental health membership and anti-stigma campaign, Open Minds, which aims to increase membership of the Trust, while helping reduce the stigma surrounding mental illness.
Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust was established in 1 July 2011 and provides community and mental, learning disability and substance misuse health services.
Our vision is to be ‘A leading organisation that works effectively in partnership with our stakeholders to deliver high quality integrated health and care services.’
An example of this partnership working is our Big Recovery programme. Recovery is not something services do, it is a concept, a set of values and principles. Our values in the Big Recovery are: Choice, Hope, Inclusion, Partnership and Empowerment.
The Big Recovery programme is a partnership of people with lived experience working with staff to imbed Recovery in all our services. We have developed: A carers and users Pledge A Recovery Strategy
Task and finish groups that undertake work programmes around recover including the setting up of a Recovery college and the introduction of peer support workers.
