Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

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Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Type Community health trust
Budget£140 million
ChairKaren Bliss
Chief executiveColin Scales
Staff2,000
Website bridgewater.nhs.uk OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (Bridgewater) is a leading provider of community health services in the northwest of England.

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In 2013/14 Bridgewater was responsible for providing community and specialised health services to 831,270 people living in Halton, St Helens, Warrington and Wigan. In addition Bridgewater provides community dental services in these areas plus Bolton, Tameside, Glossop, Stockport and western Cheshire. [1] Its community services in St. Helens were taken over by a consortium of St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, 5 Boroughs Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and St Helens Rota in 2017. [2]

On 1 November 2014, Bridgewater became one of the first two NHS community healthcare trusts in the UK to achieve foundation trust status. [3]

It took on contracts for prison healthcare at five prisons in the north west but decided to relinquish them all in 2019. [4]

Plans were drawn up for the Trust to take over Liverpool Community Health NHS Trust's contract, but were abandoned in March 2017 after NHS Improvement intervened. The Care Quality Commission rated Bridgewater as "requiring improvement" after an inspection in 2016. [5]

In 2019 it began discussions of a merger with Warrington & Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. [6]

It runs Widnes Urgent Treatment Centre. [7]

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References

  1. "Community trusts devise plan to 'level playing field'". Local Government Chronicle. 4 November 2013. Retrieved 18 November 2013.
  2. "Shake-up for community healthcare in St Helens". St Helens Star. 9 January 2017. Retrieved 21 April 2017.
  3. "Three more trusts achieve foundation trust status". Nursing Times. 31 October 2014. Retrieved 31 October 2014.
  4. "FT to divest under-pressure prison contracts". Health Service Journal. 9 July 2019. Retrieved 23 August 2019.
  5. "NHS abandons switching of Liverpool community health services provider". BBC News. 30 March 2017. Retrieved 2 May 2017.
  6. "FTs discuss potential merger". Health Service Journal. 3 June 2019. Retrieved 9 July 2019.
  7. "Halton residents urged to consider using walk-in medical centres". In Your Area. 12 August 2022. Retrieved 10 November 2022.