Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Type of trust
Mental health trust
Trust details
Last annual budget
Employees 2300
Chair Dr Ian McPherson
Chief Executive Graham Wareham
Links
Website http://www.sabp.nhs.uk/
Care Quality Commission reports CQC
Monitor Monitor

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is an NHS foundation trust in England formed by the merger of Surrey and Hampshire Borders, Surrey Oaklands and North West Surrey Partnership NHS trusts in April 2005, with an emphasis on the mental sides of healthcare.

The trust operates at over 30 sites including:

It plans to buy the Jubilee Complex at Headley Court, near Leatherhead, a former rehabilitation centre for injured soldiers. This would provide about 44 mental health beds, which could save the trust money spent on placements in private hospitals. It placed 320 patients with private providers in 2020-21, at a cost of £7.8 million.[1]

Operation

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It is one of three large trusts in the South East Coast area which may compete to offer new services in its area, the others being Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust and Sussex Partnership NHS Trust.[2]

The Trust's memory services serving a minority of its area, Runnymede and West Elmbridge, achieved the top rating in a national accreditation scheme developed by the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 2012.[3]

In November 2013 the Trust was inspected by the Care Quality Commission whose teams spent three days checking the Trust's services. They found "safety and suitability concerns" and warned that male and female patients’ privacy was "compromised because people could be seen by other patients in their rooms at any time" and that patients were "not always involved in making decisions about their care".[4] There have also been significant breaches of patient confidentiality.[5]

The Trust runs the Hope Service for young people in Surrey with Surrey County Council, and Guildford and Waverley Clinical Commissioning Group. It works with about 50 young people at any one time who suffer from depression, suicidal feelings, ADHD, eating disorders, family difficulties and family breakdown.[6]

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 2254 full time equivalent staff and a sickness absence rate of 3.59%. 61% of staff recommend it as a place for treatment and 565% recommended it as a place to work.[7]

In 2021 it was overspending by almost £200,000 a month because of demand for children’s services, with increases in demand for children’s services of up to 40% since the COVID-19 pandemic in England began.[8]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Trust hopes to cut bill for private care by buying rehabilitation centre". Health Service Journal. 27 October 2021. Retrieved 8 December 2021.
  2. ^ "Analysed: mental health providers for the South East Coast". Health Service Journal. 15 April 2013. Retrieved 3 November 2013.
  3. ^ "Surrey memory services rated 'excellent'". Health Service Journal. 29 October 2012. Retrieved 3 November 2013.
  4. ^ "Jeremy Hunt's local NHS trust savaged over patient safety after inspectors swoop". Daily Mirror. 10 November 2013. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
  5. ^ "Fluttershy | Fluttershy | United Kingdom".
  6. ^ "Cash boost expands Surrey mental health Hope Service". BBC News. 5 March 2015. Retrieved 23 March 2015.
  7. ^ "HSJ reveals the best places to work in 2015". Health Service Journal. 7 July 2015. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
  8. ^ "Trust seeks 'urgent financial support' to meet demand for services". Health Service Journal. 16 July 2021. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
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