South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
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| Geography | |
| Location | London, England, United Kingdom |
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| Care system | NHS Mental Health Trust |
| Hospital type | Specialist mental health care and substance misuse |
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| Founded | 1999 |
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| Website | www |
The South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, also known as SLaM, is an NHS foundation trust based in London, United Kingdom, which specialises in mental health. It comprises three psychiatric hospitals (Bethlem Royal Hospital, Lambeth Hospital and the Maudsley Hospital), the Ladywell Unit based at University Hospital Lewisham, and over 100 community sites and 300 clinical teams. SLaM forms part of the institutions that make up King's Health Partners, an academic health science centre.
Each year the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust provides about 5,000 people with hospital treatment and about 40,000 people with community services. In partnership with King's College London, the Trust has major research activities. This academic partnership enables the Trust to develop new treatments and to provide specialist services to people from across the UK such as the National Psychosis Unit at Bethlem Royal Hospital. The Trust forms part of the King's Health Partners academic health science centre and together with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King's College London and University College London is host to the UK’s only specialist National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre for mental health. In 2009/10 the Trust had a turnover of £370 million.
The Trust's work on promoting mental health and well-being, developed in partnership with the new economics foundation, has featured in the national media.
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 4218 full-time equivalent staff and a sickness absence rate of 3.74%. 58% of staff recommend it as a place for treatment and 59% recommended it as a place to work.
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