²gether NHS Foundation Trust (²gether) was an

NHS Foundation Trust An NHS foundation trust is a semi-autonomous organisational unit within the National Health Service (England), National Health Service in England. They have a degree of independence from the Department of Health and Social Care (and, until the a ...

that provided mental and social health care services to the population of

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and

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, England. It ran services at Charlton Lane Centre and Honeybourne in

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, Wotton Lawn and Laurel House in

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, Westridge Assessment and Treatment Service in

Stonehouse, Gloucestershire Stonehouse is a town in the Stroud District of Gloucestershire in southwestern England. The town centre is 2.5 miles east of the M5 motorway, junction 13. Stonehouse railway station has a regular train service to London. The town is situated ...

, Hollybrook in

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, the Stonebow Unit and Oak House in

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. It was formerly known as Gloucestershire Partnership NHS Trust and became a Foundation Trust in July 2007. It was named by the

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as one of the top hundred NHS trusts to work for in 2015. At that time it had 1,700 full-time equivalent staff and a sickness absence rate of 5.35%. 67% of staff recommended it as a place for treatment and 57% recommended it as a place to work. It was rated as 'good' by the Care Quality Commission at its first full inspection in 2015.

Merger

In September 2017 the trust announced plans to merge with

Gloucestershire Care Services NHS Trust Gloucestershire Care Services NHS Trust was a community health trust established in 2012 under the Transforming Community Services programme to run community services in Gloucestershire after proposals to set up a community interest company, Glouc ...

. The trusts merged in October 2019, forming Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust.

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Merger

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