Employees about 5,000 Chief Executive Mr Martin Barkley Founded 2006 | Chair Mrs Jo Turnbull Care Quality Commission reports CQC | |
CEO Colin Martin (1 May 2016–) Profiles | ||
The Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys Foundation NHS Trust is a NHS trust that provides mental health services. It covers the 1.4 million people living in County Durham, Teesside and North East Yorkshire, England. The trust's annual income is approximately £200 million, and the trust employs about 5,000 staff who work from over 200 offices. The headquarters of the trust are located at West Park Hospital, Darlington.
The trust was created in 2006 through the merger of two specialist health trusts; the County Durham and Darlington Priority Services NHS Trust and the Tees and North East Yorkshire NHS Trust. It was praised, in 2007, by the independent watchdog, the Healthcare Commission, for the quality of its services.
Performance
The Care Quality Commission inspection in December 2014 was positive with patients and carers said they were treated with respect and courtesy by staff.
In 2015 the trust opened the Old Vicarage, in Seaham, as part of its commitment to modernise its mental health and learning disabilities services, with a team of nurses, doctors, therapists, psychologists, support and social workers previously based at Easington Medical Centre.
It was awarded a contract to run mental health and learning disability services in the York area to start in October 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 5437 full-time equivalent staff and a sickness absence rate of 5.11%. 70% of staff recommend it as a place for treatment and 64% recommended it as a place to work.
In March 2016 the trust was ranked fourth in the Learning from Mistakes League.