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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 has built a new mental health inpatient unit in Blackpool, called The Harbour. The Harbour is a new 154 bedded mental health hospital situated on Preston New Road.
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.
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.
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.