Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (CWP) provides mental health services, learning disability services and substance misuse services across

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and Wirral, England. Additionally it provides various specialist services in

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, Halton and

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, and community health services in Western Cheshire. CWP has around 14,700 foundation trust members. It employs more than 4,500 staff across 73 sites and serves a population of over a million people.

History

The Trust was established in 2002 as the Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Trust. They achieved

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status in July 2007. In July 2013 the trust selected Ryhurst Ltd as preferred bidder for a comprehensive range of Facilities Management services in a partnership which will last for an initial 15-year period, with an option to extend for a further five years.

Facilities

The trust runs a Health and Education Assessment Unit at Adcote House where Pets as Therapy are involved. It runs three

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s in Cheshire: Old Hall Surgery in

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, Westminster Surgery and Willaston Surgery, taken over as the practices could not recruit new partners.

Performance

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 2,986 full-time equivalent staff and a sickness absence rate of 5.61%. 67% of staff recommend it as a place for treatment and 61% recommended it as a place to work. In the 2016 NHS Staff Survey it did best of all mental health, learning disability and community trusts.

References

{{reflist NHS foundation trusts Health in Cheshire Medical and health organisations based in Merseyside

History

Facilities

Performance

See also

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