Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (Bridgewater) is a leading provider of community health services in the northwest 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. Its community services in St. Helens were taken over by a consortium of
St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust was an NHS Trust that operated from 1991 until 2023, based in Whiston, Merseyside. The trust became part of Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust on 1 July 2023.
It ran two m ...
,
5 Boroughs Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
North West Boroughs Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was an NHS foundation trust which provided mental health, learning disability and community health services in fifteen boroughs of North West England. The Trust delivered mental health and lear ...
and St Helens Rota in 2017.
On 1 November 2014, Bridgewater became one of the first two NHS community healthcare trusts in the UK to achieve
foundation trust
An NHS foundation trust is a semi-autonomous organisational unit within the National Health Service in England. They have a degree of independence from the Department of Health and Social Care (and, until the abolition of SHAs in 2013, their loc ...
status.
It took on contracts for
prison healthcare
Prison healthcare is the medical specialty in which healthcare providers care for people in prisons and jails. Prison healthcare is a relatively new specialty that developed alongside the adaption of prisons into modern disciplinary institutions ...
at five prisons in the north west but decided to relinquish them all in 2019.
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
NHS Improvement (NHSI) was a non-departmental body in England, responsible for overseeing the National Health Service's foundation trusts and NHS trusts, as well as independent providers that provide NHS-funded care. It supported providers to ...
intervened. The
Care Quality Commission
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is an executive non-departmental public body of the Department of Health and Social Care of the United Kingdom. It was established in 2009 to regulate and inspect health and social care providers in England. It ...
rated Bridgewater as "requiring improvement" after an inspection in 2016.
In 2019 it began discussions of a merger with
Warrington & Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 December 2008 from what was formerly known as North Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust. The trust comprises Warrington Hospital, Halton General Hospital in Runcorn and Houghton Hall ...
.
It runs
Widnes
Widnes ( ) is an Industrial city, industrial town in the Borough of Halton, Cheshire, England, which at the 2021–2022 United Kingdom censuses, 2021 census had a population of 62,400.
Historic counties of England, Historically in Lancashire, ...
Urgent Treatment Centre.
See also
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Healthcare in Greater Manchester
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List of NHS trusts
This list of NHS trusts in England provides details of current and former English NHS trusts, NHS foundation trusts, acute hospital trusts, ambulance trusts, mental health trust
A mental health trust provides health and social care service ...
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