Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust

Pennine Care NHS Trust is an NHS foundation trust in northern England, providing mental health services in parts of Greater Manchester and Derbyshire.

Type of trust
Mental health trust
Trust details
Last annual budget 246,961,000 (March 2013)[1]
Employees 5,969 (31 March 2012)[1]
Chair Evelyn Asante-Mensah OBE
Chief Executive
Links
Website Pennine Care
Care Quality Commission reports CQC
Monitor Monitor

The trust was established in April 2002, and in July 2008 it was the 100th trust to be awarded Foundation status.

It provides mental health and learning disability services in Bury, Rochdale, Oldham, Stockport, Tameside and Glossop; and health improvement services in Tameside.

The trust also provided community care until 2019, when most community services transferred to the Northern Care Alliance, an NHS Group formed around the same time by combining Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust and Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust.[2] Community services based in Trafford transferred to Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust.

In 2017, the Greater Manchester Resilience Hub was set up in response to the Manchester Arena attack, to co-ordinate care and support for thousands of children, young people and adults whose mental health and/or emotional wellbeing was affected. This service is hosted by Pennine Care in partnership with Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust and Northwest Boroughs Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

The trust set up a new system, the Street Triage service, to provide 24-hour advice to police officers and paramedics in Tameside on the best place to take patients during incidents. This is intended cut the number of people detained in custody under the Mental Health Act.[3]

In 2012 the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom held that the Trust was found to be in breach of Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights by allowing a mentally ill patient, voluntarily detained in hospital, to go home for the weekend. The patient was suffering depression and known to be a suicide risk. She committed suicide whilst on leave from hospital.[4]

The trust took over community services in Trafford from Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in 2013.[5]

It scored 98% in the Friends and Family Test in May 2015.[6] It was named by the Health Service Journal as one of the top hundred NHS trusts to work for in 2015. At that time it had 5159 full-time equivalent staff and a sickness absence rate of 5.58%. 63% of staff recommend it as a place for treatment and 55% recommended it as a place to work.[7]

See also

References
  1. "Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust Annual Report and Accounts 2012/2013" (PDF). pp. 39, 147. Retrieved 16 June 2014.
  2. Naylor, Mary (3 February 2019). "New employer to take over Pennine Care staff". Bury Times. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
  3. "Police get support to cut number of people with mental illnesses held in custody". Manchester Evening News. 20 June 2015. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
  4. http://www.mentalhealthlaw.co.uk/Rabone_v_Pennine_Care_NHS_Foundation_Trust_(2012)_UKSC_2,_(2012)_MHLO_6
  5. "Pennine Care takes on Trafford community services". Health Service Journal. 16 May 2013. Retrieved 26 December 2014.
  6. "Health Trust among top performers for patient satisfaction". Rochdale on Line. 17 June 2015. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
  7. "HSJ reveals the best places to work in 2015". Health Service Journal. 7 July 2015. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
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