Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
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Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (CWP) provides mental health services, learning disability services and substance misuse services across Cheshire and Wirral, England. Additionally it provides various specialist services in Liverpool, Bolton, Warrington, Halton and Trafford, and community health services in Western Cheshire.
CWP has around 14,700 foundation trust members. It employs more than 4,500 staff across 73 sites and serves a population of over a million people.{{cite web |title=About us: Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust |url=https://www.cwp.nhs.uk/about-us |website=cwp.nhs.uk |access-date=1 April 2025}}
History
The Trust was established in 2002 as the Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Trust.{{cite web |title=The Cheshire and Wirral Partnership National Health Service Trust (Establishment) and the Wirral and West Cheshire Community National Health Service Trust (Dissolution) Order 2002 |url=https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/1244/contents/made |website=legislation.gov.uk |access-date=1 April 2025 |date=13 March 2002}} They achieved NHS foundation trust status in July 2007.{{cite web |title=AUTHORISATION of CHESHIRE AND WIRRAL PARTNERSHIP NHS FOUNDATION TRUST |url=https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/291889/Cheshire_and_Wirral_Schedule_Terms_of_Authorisation_010707.pdf |website=assets.publishing.service.gov.uk |access-date=1 April 2025 |date=1 July 2007}}
In July 2013 the trust selected Ryhurst Ltd as preferred bidder for a comprehensive range of Facilities Management services in a partnership which will last for an initial 15-year period, with an option to extend for a further five years.{{cite news|title=Ryhurst wins another trust joint-venture deal|url=http://www.fm-world.co.uk/news/business-news/ryhurst-wins-another-trust-joint-venture-deal/|accessdate=15 December 2014|publisher=FM World|date=22 July 2013}}
Facilities
The trust runs a Health and Education Assessment Unit at Adcote House where Pets as Therapy are involved.{{cite news|title=Digby the therapist|url=http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/local-news/digby-the-therapist-9383138|accessdate=27 June 2015|publisher=Liverpool Echo|date=3 June 2015}} It runs three general practices in Cheshire: Old Hall Surgery in Ellesmere Port, Westminster Surgery and Willaston Surgery, taken over as the practices could not recruit new partners.{{cite news |title=Trust takes over third practice after GP partner recruitment issues |url=http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/home/finance-and-practice-life-news/trust-takes-over-third-practice-after-gp-partner-recruitment-issues/20039389.article |accessdate=8 January 2020 |publisher=Pulse |date=13 September 2019}}
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 2,986 full-time equivalent staff and a sickness absence rate of 5.61%. 67% of staff recommend it as a place for treatment and 61% recommended it as a place to work.{{cite news|title=HSJ reveals the best places to work in 2015|url=http://www.hsj.co.uk/leadership/best-places-to-work/hsj-reveals-the-best-places-to-work-in-2015/5087434.article#.VgJD8ejkJv4|accessdate=23 September 2015|publisher=Health Service Journal|date=7 July 2015}} In the 2016 NHS Staff Survey it did best of all mental health, learning disability and community trusts.{{cite news|title=Cheshire health trust is number one for staff satisfaction|url=http://www.chesterchronicle.co.uk/news/health/cheshire-health-trust-number-one-12817189|accessdate=21 April 2017|publisher=Chester Chronicle|date=31 March 2017}}