Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
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{{short description|NHS community trust}}
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| chair = Margaret Schwarz
| chief_exec = Debbie Richards
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Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides community health services to children and young people and mental health and learning disability services to people of all ages across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
History
The Cornwall Healthcare NHS Trust was established in April 1993{{cite web |title=The Cornwall Healthcare National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1993 |url=https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/813/made |website=legislation.gov.uk |access-date=1 April 2025 |date=19 March 1993}} before becoming the Cornwall Partnership NHS Trust in April 2002.{{cite web |title=The Cornwall Healthcare National Health Service Trust Change of Name and (Establishment) Amendment Order 2002 |url=https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/1234/made |website=legislation.gov.uk |access-date=1 April 2025 |date=25 March 2002}} The Trust achieved NHS foundation trust status in March 2010.{{cite web |title=AUTHORISATION of CORNWALL PARTNERSHIP NHS FOUNDATION TRUST |url=https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Cornwall_Partnership_NHS_FT_-_authorisation.pdf |website=NHS England |access-date=1 April 2025 |date=1 March 2010}}
In 2006, the Commission for Social Care Inspection and the Healthcare Commission mounted a joint investigation into widespread institutional abuse of people with learning difficulties in the Trust.{{cite news|title=Cornish abuse findings expose 'lack of understanding' of rights|url=http://www.communitycare.co.uk/2006/07/05/cornish-abuse-findings-expose-lack-of-understanding-of-rights/|accessdate=13 November 2013|newspaper=Community Care|date=5 July 2006}}
In August 2014, it was revealed that the Trust was considering a merger with Peninsula Community Health and that the Chief Executive of Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust was also interested in participating.{{cite news|title=Cornwall summit to discuss tripartite merger proposal|url=http://www.hsj.co.uk/hsj-local/acute-trusts/royal-cornwall-hospitals-nhs-trust/cornwall-summit-to-discuss-tripartite-merger-proposal/5074333.article|accessdate=29 September 2014|publisher=Health Service Journal|date=29 August 2014}}
In 2016, Fowey Community Hospital was closed due to safety concerns. A committee meeting was held on 12 March 2025 to decide on the future of the site.{{cite web |title=Health services in Fowey and the surrounding area - NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly |url=https://cios.icb.nhs.uk/fowey/ |website=NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly |access-date=1 April 2025}}
In January 2018, the trust said it was owed £2.1m by Cornwall Council under the contract for adult community services which it took over in April 2016.{{cite news|title=Trust chief warns county council over unpaid invoices|url=https://www.hsj.co.uk/cornwall-partnership-nhs-foundation-trust/trust-chief-warns-county-council-over-unpaid-invoices/7021497.article|accessdate=23 February 2018|publisher=Health Service Journal|date=22 January 2018}}
It set up a new unit, Cove Ward at Longreach in Redruth in March 2018 as a fast-track rehabilitation service, and to avoid patients being sent out of the area.{{cite news |title=A new mental health ward to treat patients closer to home |url=https://www.piratefm.co.uk/news/latest-news/2538210/a-new-mental-health-ward-to-treat-patients-closer-to-home/ |accessdate=15 August 2018 |publisher=Pirate FM |date=27 March 2018}}
Debbie Richards, the chief executive, announced in May 2022 that almost half of the community hospital beds were occupied by patients who have no medical need to be in hospital but could not be discharged because of the shortage of adult social care provision, especially specialist dementia placements, for which there was particularly low capacity in Cornwall.{{cite news |title=Nearly half of trust's beds filled by patients fit to be discharged |url=https://www.hsj.co.uk/quality-and-performance/nearly-half-of-trusts-beds-filled-by-patients-fit-to-be-discharged/7032413.article |access-date=29 June 2022 |publisher=Health Service Journal |date=10 May 2022}}
Sites
The Trust manages the following sites:{{cite web |title=Community hospitals {{!}} Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust |url=https://www.cornwallft.nhs.uk/community-hospitals |website=cornwallft.nhs.uk |access-date=1 April 2025}}
Hospitals
- Bodmin Hospital
- Camborne Redruth Community Hospital
- Falmouth Community Hospital
- Helston Community Hospital
- Liskeard Community Hospital
- Launceston Community Hospital
- Newquay Community Hospital
- St Austell Community Hospital
- St Barnabas Community Hospital
- St Mary's Community Hospital, Isles of Scilly
- Stratton Community Hospital
Other sites
- Longreach House
See also
References
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