Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Type of Trust
Community Health NHS Trust
Trust Details
Last annual budget £140 million
Employees 3,400
Chair Harry Holden
Chief Executive Dr. Kathleen Janet Fallon
Links
Website Bridgewater Community Health
Care Quality Commission reports CQC

Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (Bridgewater) is a leading provider of community health services in the north west of England.

In 2013/14 Bridgewater was responsible for providing community and specialised health services to 831,270 people living in Halton, St Helens, Warrington and Wigan. In addition Bridgewater provides community dental services in these areas plus Bolton, Tameside, Glossop, Stockport and western Cheshire.[1] Its community services in St. Helens were taken over by a consortium of St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, 5 Boroughs Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and St Helens Rota in 2017.[2]

On 1 November 2014, Bridgewater became one of the first two NHS community healthcare trusts in the UK to achieve Foundation Trust status.[3]

Plans were drawn up for the Trust to take over Liverpool Community Health NHS Trust's contract, but were abandoned in March 2017 after NHS Improvement intervened. The Care Quality Commission rated Bridgewater as "requiring improvement" after an inspection in 2016.[4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Community trusts devise plan to 'level playing field'". Local Government Chronicle. 4 November 2013. Retrieved 18 November 2013.
  2. ↑ "Shake-up for community healthcare in St Helens". St Helens Star. 9 January 2017. Retrieved 21 April 2017.
  3. ↑ "Three more trusts achieve foundation trust status". Nursing Times. 31 October 2014. Retrieved 31 October 2014.
  4. ↑ "NHS abandons switching of Liverpool community health services provider". BBC News. 30 March 2017. Retrieved 2 May 2017.
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