Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust

Type of Trust
Mental health and community trust
Location
Trust Details
Last annual budget
Employees 7000
Chair Derek Brown
Chief Executive Professor Heather Tierney-Moore
Links
Website Lancashire Care
Wiki-Links National Health Service

Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust was established in April 2002 and authorised as an NHS Foundation Trust on 1 December 2007. It provides community and mental health services across Lancashire, England.

The trust is building a new £40m mental health inpatient unit in Blackpool, called The Harbour. Ryhurst Ltd, the trust's joint venture partner is managing the development of the scheme, which will be built by IHP, a partnership between Vinci SA Construction UK and Sir Robert McAlpine. [1]

It has been using Datix patient safety software for risk assessment and quality monitoring since 2012. This has encouraged incident reporting so 25,000 incidents a year are now reported and there have been almost triple the number of risks reported since 2012.[2]

In 2013/14 the trust sent 251 patients to private hospitals at a cost of £3.6m, an increase from 2012/13 when there were 136 referrals at a cost of £2.1m. The trust said a reduction in social care provision, an increase in mental health presentations and increased complexity of care requirements were to blame. The majority of spending with private hospitals was with the Priory Group Hospital in Preston (£4 million) and £1.2 million with Cygnet Health Care.[3]

The trust secured a five year contract from NHS England to deliver prison services at HM Prison Liverpool and HM Prison Kennet in May 2015.[4]

The trust only 16 has beds for children available in Lancashire — 10 for children under 16 at The Junction in Lancaster and six for those aged 16 and 17 at The Platform in Preston. 29 children were sent outside the county for treatment in 2016, some as far as Norwich, mostly because there were not enough beds available. It is planned to provide 56 more beds in 2017.[5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Lancashire's Harbour inpatient unit gets go-ahead". Place North West. 22 March 2013. Retrieved 15 December 2014.
  2. ↑ "Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust implements Datix patient safety software for safety and quality". Health IT Central. 15 March 2016. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
  3. ↑ "Mental health bed shortage". Lancashire Evening Post. 1 May 2014. Retrieved 4 May 2014.
  4. ↑ "Lancashire trust takes on prison health contract". Health Service Journal. 7 May 2015. Retrieved 14 June 2015.
  5. ↑ "‘It’s unacceptable for vulnerable children to be far from home’". Blackpool Gazette. 2 May 2016. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
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