Devon Partnership NHS Trust is a

mental health trust A mental health trust provides health and social care services for people with mental health disorders in England. There are 54 mental health trusts. They are commissioned and funded by clinical commissioning groups. Patients usually access th ...

established in 2001. It provides mental health and learning disability services in

Devon Devon ( , historically known as Devonshire , ) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in South West England. The most populous settlement in Devon is the city of Plymouth, followed by Devon's county town, the city of Exeter. Devon is ...

(excluding Plymouth), England.

Services

In December 2016, the trust announced that it had applied for planning permission to build a brand new, £5.5million

psychiatric intensive-care unit Psychiatric Intensive Care Units or PICUs are specialist twenty-four hour inpatient wards that provide intensive assessment and comprehensive treatment to individuals during the most acute phase of a serious mental illness. Most individuals ...

(PICU) in Exeter: work on site stated in November 2017.

Performance

The trust was last inspected by 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 services in England. I ...

(CQC) in June-July 2019: the report was published in October 2019 and its overall rating was 'Good'.

References

External links

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CQC inspection reports
{{Authority control NHS mental health trusts Health in Devon