Employees 5,969 (31 March 2012) Chief Executive Michael McCourt Care Quality Commission reports CQC | Chair John Schofield Website Pennine Care | |
Last annual budget 246,961,000 (March 2013) | ||
Pennine Care NHS Trust is an NHS Foundation Trust in England providing community and mental health services in parts of Greater Manchester and Derbyshire.
It provides community, mental health, health improvement and specialist services in Bury and Oldham. The Trust won one of the first community service contracts to be retendered covering the Oldham Clinical Commissioning Group area with a partnership bid involving Age UK, Lancaster House Consulting & Diagnostics & Surgical Ltd and a GP consortium, Primary Care Oldham. The contract is valued at £22.5m per year for three years, with an option to extend for a further two.
In Rochdale it provides community, mental health and specialist services and in Trafford it delivers Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services and community services.
In Stockport it provides mental health and specialist services and in Tameside and Glossop mental health, health improvement and specialist services. The trust set up a new system, the Street Triage service, to provide 24-hour advice to police officers and paramedics in Tameside on the best place to take patients during incidents. This is intended cut the number of people detained in custody under the Mental Health Act.
It was established in April 2002, and in July 2008 it was the 100th trust to be awarded Foundation status.
In 2012 the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom held that the Trust was found to be in breach of Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights by allowing a mentally ill patient, voluntarily detained in the hospital, to go home for the weekend. The patient was suffering depression and known to be a suicide risk. She committed suicide whilst on leave from the hospital.
The trust took over community services in Trafford from Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in 2013.
It scored an impressive 98% in the Friends and Family Test in May 2015.
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 5159 full-time equivalent staff and a sickness absence rate of 5.58%. 63% of staff recommend it as a place for treatment and 55% recommended it as a place to work.