Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust

Pennine Care NHS Trust is an NHS foundation trust in northern England, providing mental health services in parts of Greater Manchester and Derbyshire.

Type of trust
Mental health trust
Trust details
Last annual budget 246,961,000 (March 2013)[1]
Employees 5,969 (31 March 2012)[1]
Chair Evelyn Asante-Mensah OBE
Chief Executive
Links
Website Pennine Care
Care Quality Commission reports CQC
Monitor Monitor

The trust was established in April 2002, and in July 2008 it was the 100th trust to be awarded Foundation status. The trust also provided community care until 2019, when staff transferred to the Northern Care Alliance, an NHS Group formed around the same time by combining Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust and Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust.[2]

It provides mental health, health improvement and specialist services in Bury and Oldham. In 2014, the trust won one of the first community service contracts to be retendered covering the Oldham Clinical Commissioning Group area with a partnership bid involving Age UK, Lancaster House Consulting & Diagnostics & Surgical Ltd and a GP consortium, Primary Care Oldham. The contract was valued at £22.5m per year for three years, with an option to extend for a further two.[3]

In Rochdale it provides mental health and specialist services, and in Trafford it delivers Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services.

In Stockport it provides mental health and specialist services and in Tameside and Glossop mental health, health improvement and specialist services. The trust set up a new system, the Street Triage service, to provide 24-hour advice to police officers and paramedics in Tameside on the best place to take patients during incidents. This is intended cut the number of people detained in custody under the Mental Health Act.[4]

In 2012 the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom held that the Trust was found to be in breach of Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights by allowing a mentally ill patient, voluntarily detained in hospital, to go home for the weekend. The patient was suffering depression and known to be a suicide risk. She committed suicide whilst on leave from hospital.[5]

The trust took over community services in Trafford from Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in 2013.[6]

It scored 98% in the Friends and Family Test in May 2015.[7] It was named by the Health Service Journal as one of the top hundred NHS trusts to work for in 2015. At that time it had 5159 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.[8]

See also

References
  1. "Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust Annual Report and Accounts 2012/2013" (PDF). pp. 39, 147. Retrieved 16 June 2014.
  2. Naylor, Mary (3 February 2019). "New employer to take over Pennine Care staff". Bury Times. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
  3. Williams, David (23 June 2014). "Trust wins back community services contract via GP partnership bid". Health Service JOurnal. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
  4. "Police get support to cut number of people with mental illnesses held in custody". Manchester Evening News. 20 June 2015. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
  5. http://www.mentalhealthlaw.co.uk/Rabone_v_Pennine_Care_NHS_Foundation_Trust_(2012)_UKSC_2,_(2012)_MHLO_6
  6. "Pennine Care takes on Trafford community services". Health Service Journal. 16 May 2013. Retrieved 26 December 2014.
  7. "Health Trust among top performers for patient satisfaction". Rochdale on Line. 17 June 2015. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
  8. "HSJ reveals the best places to work in 2015". Health Service Journal. 7 July 2015. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
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