Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Former name Sussex Partnership NHS Trust
Created April 2006 (2006-04)
Headquarters Swandean, Arundel Road, Worthing, West Sussex, England
Region served Brighton & Hove, East Sussex, West Sussex, Hampshire and Kent
Chair Caroline Armitage
Chief Exec Sam Allen
Website www.sussexpartnership.nhs.uk

The Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health, learning disability and substance misuse services to the people of Brighton & Hove, East Sussex, West Sussex, Hampshire and Kent. They work in partnership with those who use their services, with their staff, with NHS and social care agencies and with the voluntary sector.[1][2][3]

The Trust was established as Sussex Partnership NHS Trust in April 2006, and became a NHS Foundation Trust with teaching status in August 2008.[4]

In 2013 the trust set up a joint venture with the company Care UK to purchase a 32-bed rehabilitation unit in Gosport, and to create a 24-bed self-contained accommodation unit later in the year.[5]

It is one of three large trusts in the South East Coast area which are in competition for new business, the others being Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust and Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.[6]

In December 2014 the Trust stopped routine admissions to Langley Green Hospital in Crawley after a Care Quality Commission inspection in February 2014 found it had failed to meet any of the standards it uses to judge performance.[7]

Following a planned inspection of Trust services in January 2015, the CQC said it was satisfied with the progress made to improve services at Langley Green.[8] Overall, Sussex Partnership was rated by the CQC as a Trust which 'requires improvement'.[9]

The trust has been criticized for failing to prevent homicides by psychiatric patients in its care.[10] In October 2016 the trust published an independent review, commissioned jointly with NHS England, to review homicides involving patients known to its services [11]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Three into one can go.(United Kingdom. National Health Service) | HighBeam Business: Arrive Prepared". Accessmylibrary.com. 2006-05-11. Retrieved 2011-08-06.
  2. ↑ "UK | England | Southern Counties | Services 'failing' needy children". BBC News. 2006-08-03. Retrieved 2011-08-06.
  3. ↑ "Mental health unit closed over safety fears (From The Argus)". Theargus.co.uk. 2008-01-23. Retrieved 2011-08-06.
  4. ↑ "About the Trust". Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. Retrieved 15 March 2013.
  5. ↑ "Mental health trust strikes deal with private firm to double bed numbers". Community Care. Reed Business Information. 15 March 2013. Retrieved 15 March 2013.
  6. ↑ "Analysed: mental health providers for the South East Coast". Health Service Journal. 15 April 2013. Retrieved 3 November 2013.
  7. ↑ "Mental health hospital stops accepting new patients following CQC concerns". Health Service Jopurnal. 4 December 2014. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  8. ↑ "CQC finds improved care records at Langley Green Hospitals". Crawley and Horley Observer. 27 May 2015. Retrieved 27 May 2015.
  9. ↑ "CQC inspection of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust". Care Quality Commission. 28 May 2015. Retrieved May 2015. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  10. ↑ Sussex NHS mental health trust criticised over killings by patients
  11. ↑ "Thematic review". Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. Oct 2016. Retrieved Oct 2016. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
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