ABOUT 5 BOROUGH PARTNERSHIP NHS TRUST

WHAT WE DO

The Trust was established on the 1st April 2002. We now employ more than 2,300 staff who provide a wide range of specialist adult and older persons’ mental health, child and adolescent mental health, specialist learning disability and substance misuse services. We currently provide these services across the boroughs of Halton (including Frodsham and Helsby), Knowsley, St Helens, Warrington and Wigan, serving a population of approximately 966,000 people.

Our services are commissioned on behalf of local people by five main Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) and as a specialist partnership Trust, we work with many other statutory and non-statutory organisations, including six partner local authorities, to deliver our services for and with local people.

As a Trust, we are firmly committed to delivering on six core values, which guide and shape the work of the organisation. These are:

• Involvement – Placing an emphasis on meaningful service user, carer and public involvement at all levels of the Trust
• Quality – Delivering high quality care to people who use our services
• Local focus – Providing local solutions for local people through locally focused services
• Improving access – To services for the people we serve
• Integration – Of our services across health and social care
• Partnerships – Working with the community, public, private and voluntary sectors to support service users and carers.

Our aims are to:

• Deliver services and manage the organisation to the standards set by the Department of Health.
• Establish an organisation whereby people are not passive recipients of services but are involved as partners in the delivery of their care and in the wider business and management of the Trust.
• Create a Trust where people want to work and an organisation that supports people in their jobs.
• Be a resource for our local communities, socially, economically and educationally because we believe that not only should we be different, we also need to make a difference.

WHAT IS A TRUST?

Mental Health Trusts

Mental Health Trusts provide health and social care services for people with mental health problems. Mental health services can be provided through your GP, other primary care services or through more specialist care. This might include counselling and other psychological therapies, community and family support or general health screening. For example, people suffering bereavement, depression, stress or anxiety can get help from primary care or informal community support. If they need more involved support they can be referred for specialist care.

More specialist care is normally provided by mental health trusts or local council social services departments. Services range from psychological therapy, through to specialist medical and training services for people with severe mental health problems. About two in every 1,000 people need specialist care for conditions such as severe anxiety problems or psychotic illnesses.

ANNUAL REPORT & ANNUAL PLAN

For information of the Trust’s Annual Report & Annual Plan can be found by clicking on the attachments below:-

For the Annual Report click here

For the Annual Plan click here

HEALTHCARE COMMISSION REPORT

To view The Healthcare Commission Report please click here