Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust
| Type of Trust | |
|---|---|
| Mental health and community trust | |
| Location | |
| Trust Details | |
| Last annual budget | |
| Employees | 7000 |
| Chair | David Eva |
| Chief Executive | Professor Heather Tierney-Moore |
| Links | |
| Website | Lancashire Care |
| Wiki-Links | National Health Service |
Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust was established in April 2002 and authorised as an NHS Foundation Trust on 1 December 2007. It provides community and mental health services across Lancashire, England.
The trust has built a new mental health inpatient unit in Blackpool, called The Harbour. The Harbour is a new 154 bedded mental health hospital situated on Preston New Road (A583) just off junction 4 of the M55 at Blackpool. It is a no smoking building.
The hospital was designed with extensive input from service users and clinicians and is based on good practice guidance and 'safety by design' to ensure that it can provide high quality care. The ethos of the unit is to provide therapeutic care which is empowering, person centered and needs led, and focuses on promoting recovery and independence. It has been using Datix patient safety software for risk assessment and quality monitoring since 2012. This has encouraged incident reporting so 25,000 incidents a year are now reported and there have been almost triple the number of risks reported since 2012.[1]
In 2013/14 the trust sent 251 patients to private hospitals at a cost of £3.6m, an increase from 2012/13 when there were 136 referrals at a cost of £2.1m. The trust said a reduction in social care provision, an increase in mental health presentations and increased complexity of care requirements were to blame. The majority of spending with private hospitals was with the Priory Group Hospital in Preston (£4 million) and £1.2 million with Cygnet Health Care.[2]
The trust secured a five year contract from NHS England to deliver prison services at HM Prison Liverpool and HM Prison Kennet in May 2015.[3]
The trust only 16 has beds for children available in Lancashire — 10 for children under 16 at The Junction in Lancaster and six for those aged 16 and 17 at The Platform in Preston. 29 children were sent outside the county for treatment in 2016, some as far as Norwich, mostly because there were not enough beds available. It is planned to provide 56 more beds in 2017.[4]
See also
References
- ↑ "Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust implements Datix patient safety software for safety and quality". Health IT Central. 15 March 2016. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
- ↑ "Mental health bed shortage". Lancashire Evening Post. 1 May 2014. Retrieved 4 May 2014.
- ↑ "Lancashire trust takes on prison health contract". Health Service Journal. 7 May 2015. Retrieved 14 June 2015.
- ↑ "'It's unacceptable for vulnerable children to be far from home'". Blackpool Gazette. 2 May 2016. Retrieved 3 May 2016.