Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
| Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust | |
|---|---|
| Type | Mental Health |
| Headquarters | 50 Summer Hill Road, Ladywood, Birmingham |
| Region served | Birmingham and Solihull, West Midlands, England |
| Budget | £250m (income 2005/2006) |
| Chair | Sue Davis CBE |
| Chief executive | John Short |
| Website | www |
| Care Quality Commission | CQC report |
Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health care for people living in Birmingham and Solihull, West Midlands, England.[1] It became a Foundation Trust in July 2008.
Sue Davis CBE was appointed as the Chair for the Trust in November 2011, following Professor Peter Marquis, who retired in September 2011.
This was the first mental health trust to receive a published rating from the Care Quality Commission under its new inspection regime in September 2014, having volnteered to pilot the process. The trust’s leadership, clinical effectiveness, responsiveness to patients, and caring nature were all rated as good. But the Trust was told to improve the safe storage of medicines and that people received medication in a timely manner; ligature risks and record keeping were addressed; and to increase the number of suitably qualified staff at some sites.[2]
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 3924 full time equivalent staff and a sickness absence rate of 4.77%. 62% of staff recommend it as a place for treatment and 62% recommended it as a place to work.[3]
The trust is actively engaged in research into the design of neuropsychiatry services for people with epilepsy[4] and developing information technology based tools for managing mental health.[5]
See also
References
- ^ "Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHSFT". Retrieved 27 October 2013.
- ^ "First mental health trust given CQC rating". Health Service Journal. 12 September 2014. Retrieved 17 October 2014.
- ^ "HSJ reveals the best places to work in 2015". Health Service Journal. 7 July 2015. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
- ^ "New Study Highlights Need For Epilepsy-Focused Neuropsychiatry Services". Epilepsy Research UK. 13 April 2016. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
- ^ "Can the NHS modernise without going broke?". Wired. 22 April 2016. Retrieved 3 May 2016.