Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

Type of Trust
Mental Health and Community trust
Location
Trust Details
Last annual budget
Employees 3,600
Chair Alan Maden
Chief Executive Bev Humphrey
Links
Website Greater Manchester West

Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust is an NHS Foundation Trust in north west England, with headquarters in Prestwich, Greater Manchester. It provides mental health services in Bolton, Salford and Trafford, inpatient alcohol and drug recovery services in Prestwich as well as community services in Salford, Trafford, Cumbria, Wigan and Leigh, Blackburn with Darwen and Central Lancashire. It also provides secure services for adults and various specialist mental health services.

The Trust's Greenway Unit at Trafford General Hospital was the subject of a King's Fund project "Enhancing the Healing Environment" in 2005.[1]

Nursing placements at the Trust received ‘outstanding’ ratings in a report published in 2010 following an inspection by the Nursing and Midwifery Council.[2]

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 2650 full time equivalent staff and a sickness absence rate of 6.5%. 61% of staff recommend it as a place for treatment and 59% recommended it as a place to work.[3]

In 2016 it took over Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust. [4]

See also

References

  1. "Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust". Kings Fund. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
  2. "Outstanding ratings for Greater Manchester West Mental Health Trust". Salford Online. 25 May 2010. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
  3. "HSJ reveals the best places to work in 2015". Health Service Journal. 7 July 2015. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
  4. "Chief executive of Manchester's crisis hit mental health trust lands new job - at an even bigger trust". Manchester Evening News. 7 August 2016. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
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