Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership
| Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust | |
|---|---|
| Made foundation | April 2001 |
| Headquarters | Chippenham |
| Region served | Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Wiltshire |
| Type | NHS mental health trust |
| Chair | Charlotte Hitchings |
| Chief Exec | Dr Hayley Richards |
| Website | www |
Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust (AWP) is an NHS mental health trust providing adult mental health and related services in Wiltshire and the former county of Avon, an area centred on Bristol.
The trust is headquartered in Chippenham, and offers services at a large number of sites including at Blackberry Hill Hospital, Callington Road Hospital, Green Lane Hospital, Petherton Day Hospital, Royal United Hospital, St Martin's Hospital, Savernake Hospital, Southmead Hospital, Weston General Hospital and Fountain Way in Salisbury. The trust is one of the largest mental health trusts in the country, providing services to 1.6 million people in 2010. It is organised into five strategic business units:
Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust was established in April 2001 following the merger of Avon and Western Wiltshire Mental Health Trust with services in Swindon and South Wiltshire. The Avon and Western Wiltshire Mental Health Trust was formed by the renaming on 1 April 1999 of the Bath Mental Health Care NHS Trust, which had originally been formed on 1 November 1991.
In 2008 the Care Quality Commission (CQC) rated mental health services run by the trust as weak overall, along with 10 other mental health trusts nationally. A 2012 Care Quality Commission routine review found that the trust failed in four out of five inspection areas, and had insufficient experienced staff to meet needs. In 2013 the Care Quality Commission identified the trust as one of eight mental health trusts with units that had dangerous staffing levels. In 2014, following an inspection, the CQC issued four warning notices to the trust requiring urgent action.
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