Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
TypeMental health trust
HeadquartersCombe Park
Bath
BA1 3QE[1]
Region servedBath and North East Somerset, Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Wiltshire
ChairCharlotte Hitchings
Chief executiveDominic Hardisty [2]
Websitewww.awp.nhs.uk Edit this at Wikidata
Care Quality CommissionCQC report

Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust (AWP) is an NHS mental health trust providing adult mental health and related services in Wiltshire and the former county of Avon, an area centred on Bristol.

Trust services

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The trust is headquartered in Bath, and offers services at a large number of sites including at Blackberry Hill Hospital, Callington Road Hospital, Green Lane Hospital, Petherton Day Hospital, Royal United Hospital, St Martin's Hospital, Savernake Hospital, Southmead Hospital, Weston General Hospital and Fountain Way in Salisbury.[3] The trust provided services to a population of 1.6 million people in 2010.[4] It is organised into five strategic business units:

  • Adult services
  • Older people's services
  • Specialist drug and alcohol services
  • Specialised and secure services
  • Research and development

History

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Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust was established as the Bath Mental Health Care NHS Trust, on 1 November 1991.[5][6] Its name was changed on 1 April 1999 to the Avon and Western Wiltshire Mental Health Trust.[7] The Trust's name was again changed, on 1 April 2001, to Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust, following the merger of Avon and Western Wiltshire Mental Health Trust with services in Swindon and South Wiltshire.[8][9]

In 2008, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) rated mental health services run by the trust as weak overall, along with ten other mental health trusts nationally.[10] A 2012 CQC routine review found that the trust failed in four out of five inspection areas, and had insufficient experienced staff to meet needs.[11][12] In 2013, the CQC identified the trust as one of eight mental health trusts with units that had dangerous staffing levels.[13] In 2014, following an inspection, the CQC issued four warning notices to the trust requiring urgent action.[14]

Following a 2012 NHS South of England review of the trust that concluded that "there is an urgent need to change the culture and leadership from one of central control to one in which all staff are positively engaged and involved in determining and delivering safe, high quality care", the trust appointed a new chairman and chief executive.[15][16]

The trust was ordered to make urgent improvements to the safety of some of its services by the CQC in September 2014, after they found widespread inadequate staffing at inpatient units and a failure to investigate and learn from patient safety incidents.[17][18]

Hayley Richards is retiring as chief executive in May 2019, and will be replaced by Dominic Hardisty, previously Chief Operating Officer and Deputy Chief Executive at Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust.[19] Prior to the arrival of Hardisty, Simon Truelove, the trust's Director of Finance, will act as the interim CEO.[20]

Bristol Mental Health

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In April 2013, the new Bristol Clinical Commissioning Group announced that following complaints from staff and patients in Bristol, it would re-procure adult out-patients mental health services in Bristol from autumn 2014, enabling alternative providers to bid to operate the service which was contributing about £40 million to AWP's income.[21][22]

A partnership of AWP, Second Step, Missing Link and seven voluntary sector organisations, called Bristol Mental Health, was awarded the contract. Different organisations will be responsible for each of six areas of the service.[23] Bristol Mental Health commenced operation in October 2014.[24]

Children's community services

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The trust in conjunction with other partners won a contract to provide children's community services in Bristol and South Gloucestershire in October 2015, after North Bristol NHS Trust announced it would give up the contract.[25] The service is provided by the Community Children's Health Partnership, which is a partnership between Sirona Care & Health, Bristol Community Health, Barnardo's and AWP.[26]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Contact". Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust. Retrieved 27 December 2019.
  2. ^ "AWP Trust Board". Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  3. ^ "Our Sites". Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust. Archived from the original on 27 April 2009. Retrieved 25 February 2012.
  4. ^ Mental Health Act Annual Statement – Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust (PDF) (Report). Care Quality Commission. November 2010. Retrieved 25 February 2012.
  5. ^ The Bath Mental Health Care National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1991, UK Statutory Instruments 1991, 1991, Wikidata Q99896422
  6. ^ "The Bath Mental Health Care National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1991". legislation.gov.uk. 21 October 1991. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  7. ^ The Bath Mental Health Care National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 1999, UK Statutory Instruments 1999, 1999, Wikidata Q99867785
  8. ^ The Avon and Western Wiltshire Mental Health Care National Health Service Trust (Change of Name) Order 2001, UK Statutory Instruments 2001, 2001, Wikidata Q99861220
  9. ^ "Incidence of Homicides in AWP 2001–2007". AWP. January 2008. p. 5. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  10. ^ "Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership services rated 'weak' by health watchdog". Bristol Evening Post. 24 July 2008. Retrieved 25 February 2012.
  11. ^ "Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership 'lacked safety staff'". BBC. 17 August 2012. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
  12. ^ "Care Quality Commission publishes two reports". Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Trust. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
  13. ^ Patrick Hennessy; Laura Donnelly (12 January 2013). "Seventeen NHS hospitals have dangerously low numbers of nurses". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 13 January 2013. Retrieved 14 January 2013.
  14. ^ "Avon and Wiltshire mental health trust 'must improve'". BBC. 18 September 2014. Retrieved 19 September 2014.
  15. ^ "Avon and Wiltshire mental health trust criticised". BBC. 26 July 2012. Retrieved 20 August 2012.
  16. ^ Jill Crooks (30 July 2012). "Mental health trust vows to be transparent after review criticism". Wiltshire Times. Retrieved 20 August 2012.
  17. ^ "CQC finds safety failures at Avon and Wiltshire". Health Service Journal. 18 September 2014. Retrieved 17 October 2014.
  18. ^ "Chief Inspector of Hospitals finds that Mental Health Trust must improve". Healthwatch Swindon. 17 September 2014. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
  19. ^ "Next Chief Executive appointed at Avon and Wiltshire mental health trust". Bath Echo. 25 April 2019. Retrieved 25 April 2019.
  20. ^ "AWP Trust Board - Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust". www.awp.nhs.uk. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  21. ^ "Bristol mental health services out to tender". BBC. 28 April 2013. Retrieved 28 April 2013.
  22. ^ "Inpatient beds excluded from tender". AWP. 26 April 2013. Retrieved 28 April 2013.
  23. ^ "New organisation for mental health". Bristol Post. 29 May 2014. Retrieved 29 May 2014.
  24. ^ "Bristol MH Home – About us". Bristol Mental Health. Archived from the original on 7 April 2015. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
  25. ^ "NHS trust preferred bidder for Bristol children's services contract". Health Service Journal. 19 October 2015. Retrieved 29 November 2015.
  26. ^ "What is Community Children's Health Partnership". Community Children's Health Partnership. Retrieved 5 February 2017.
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