Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust

Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust was a mental health trust in Manchester, England, between 2002 and 2016.

Type of Trust
NHS hospital trust
Trust Details
Last annual budget
Employees
Chair Wyn Dignan
Chief Executive Michele Moran
Links
Website Manchester Health and Social Care Trust
Care Quality Commission reports CQC
Wiki-Links National Health Service

The trust was formed in April 2002 as one of the first mental health and social care NHS organisations in England. It ran wards at North Manchester General Hospital and Wythenshawe Hospital.

The Edale Unit at Hathersage Road, Manchester, was closed in 2011 after being in use for about five years.[1]

The trust spent £1.7m in the first four months of 2013–14 on beds for 86 patients at other providers.[2]

In 2014, quarter of staff at the trust said they would not recommend it to their friends or family, according to the first NHS Friends and Family Test; and more than a third of staff who took part in the survey also said they would not recommend it as a good place to work.[3]

In December 2014 the trust won a contract to lead the running of health services at both Strangeways prison and HM Prison Buckley Hall in Rochdale. They were to work with drug and alcohol abuse charity Lifeline project.[4]

The trust spent £4,615,299 on private mental health placements in 2013/4.

In October 2015, after making cuts in support services and community therapy to the value of £1.5 million, the trust declared that it was no longer viable as an independent organisation.[5] It was dissolved in 2016 and services were taken over by Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.[6]

See also
  • Healthcare in Greater Manchester
  • List of NHS trusts

References
  1. Edale Unit (Manchester); Westminster Hall, 28th June 2011; Tony Lloyd
  2. Lintern, Shaun (10 October 2013). "Mental health sector hit by beds shortage". Local Government Chronicle. Retrieved 30 October 2013.
  3. "We wouldn't want our loved ones treated here, say a quarter of Manchester mental health trust workers". Manchester Evening News. 5 October 2014. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  4. "Strangeways prisoners to get better healthcare in £50m deal". Manchester Evening News. 12 December 2014. Retrieved 14 December 2014.
  5. "Jeremy Hunt called on to 'urgently' intervene in Manchester mental health crisis". Manchester Evening News. 2 November 2015. Retrieved 5 November 2015.
  6. "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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