Employees 6000 Care Quality Commission reports CQC | Chief Executive John Lawlor Monitor [1] | |
Chair Hugh Morgan Williams (currently stood down as Chairman) Website Northumberland Tyne and Wear | ||
Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest mental health and disability Trusts in England employing more than 6,000 staff, serving a population of approximately 1.4 million, providing services across an area totalling 2,200 square miles. It works from over 60 sites across Northumberland, Newcastle, North Tyneside, Gateshead, South Tyneside and Sunderland. It also has a number of regional and national specialist services and has a budget of over £300 million.
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The Trust's main sites are -
St Nicholas, Newcastle upon Tyne, St George's Park, Morpeth, Northumberland, Northgate, Morpeth, Northumberland, Walkergate Park, Newcastle upon Tyne, Monkwearmouth, Sunderland.
The Trust also provide services from a number of smaller units.
Finance
John Lawlor the chief executive warned in June 2015 that “grey to black clouds” are looming as cuts force the Trust to make savings of between £9m and £12m every year because changes in NHS cash allocation had led to a shift towards distributing money on the basis of “age” rather than “deprivation”.
Performance
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 5580 full-time equivalent staff and a sickness absence rate of 5.82%. 61% of staff recommend it as a place for treatment and 53% recommended it as a place to work. In August 2016 it was rated outstanding by the Care Quality Commission