Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys Foundation NHS Trust

The Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys Foundation NHS Trust is an NHS trust that provides local mental health, learning disability and eating disorders services. It covers the 1.4 million people living in County Durham, Teesside and most of North Yorkshire, England. The Trust's annual income is approximately £300 million and deliver its services by working in partnership with local authorities and clinical commissioning groups, a wide range of other providers including voluntary organisations and the private sector, as well as service users, their carers and the public. The Trust employs about 7,500 staff who work from over 200 offices. The headquarters of the Trust are located at West Park Hospital, Darlington.[1]

Type of Trust
NHS hospital trust
Trust Details
Last annual budget
Employees about 7,500
Chair Mrs Miriam Harte
Chief Executive Mr Brent Kilmurray
Links
Website https://www.tewv.nhs.uk/
Care Quality Commission reports CQC

The Trust was created in 2006 through the merger of two specialist health Trusts; the County Durham and Darlington Priority Services NHS Trust and the Tees and North East Yorkshire NHS Trust.[2][3] It was praised, in 2007, by the independent watchdog, the Healthcare Commission, for the quality of its services.[4]

In April 2020 it opened Foss Park, a 72-bed facility for people with dementia or conditions such as psychosis, severe depression or anxiety in York. It has a section 136 assessment suite for people detained under the Mental Health Act, and an electroconvulsive therapy suite.[5]

Performance

The Care Quality Commission inspection in December 2014 was positive with patients and carers said they were treated with respect and courtesy by staff.[6]

In 2015 the trust opened the Old Vicarage, in Seaham, as part of its commitment to modernise its mental health and learning disabilities services, with a team of nurses, doctors, therapists, psychologists, support and social workers previously based at Easington Medical Centre.[7]

It was awarded a contract to run mental health and learning disability services in the York area to start in October 2015.[8]

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 5437 full-time equivalent staff and a sickness absence rate of 5.11%. 70% of staff recommend it as a place for treatment and 64% recommended it as a place to work.[9]

In March 2016 the trust was ranked fourth in the Learning from Mistakes League.[10]

In August 2019 the trust's West Lane Hospital in Middlesbrough was closed by the Care Quality Commission after the deaths of two seventeen-year-old female patients.[11]

Private finance initiative contract

The trust established a private finance initiative contract with Three Valleys Healthcare for the £75 million Roseberry Park Hospital in Middlesbrough, a 312-bed hospital built by Laing O'Rourke. It required payment of a total of £321 million to the company until 2039-40. Three Valleys Healthcare Holdings, the parent company went into administration in 2017. In June 2017 it issued a "termination notice" because of building defects and problems with the fire safety system and claimed damages because of missed targets by the hard facilities management service, delivered by Carillion, and costs incurred by the construction problems. In 2011 it was the first trust to buy out a PFI contract, related to the rebuilding of West Park Hospital in Darlington.[12]

In June 2018 Three Valleys Healthcare Limited went into liquidation as a result of the collapse of Carillion. The affected staff were moved to a subsidiary company (TEWV Estates and Facilities Management Limited) which the trust had set up.[13]

See also

References
  1. "About Us". Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Trust. Archived from the original on 26 January 2008. Retrieved 21 March 2008.
  2. "Ministers approve trusts merger". BBC News. 1 February 2006. Retrieved 21 March 2008.
  3. "New trust caters for 1.4m people". BBC News. 3 April 2006. Retrieved 21 March 2008.
  4. "New health trust given thumbs up". BBC News. 18 October 2007. Retrieved 21 March 2008.
  5. "Trust to open new hospital ahead of schedule". Health Service Journal. 21 April 2020. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  6. "Fears after closure of Hartlepool mental health unit". Hartlepool Mail. 17 March 2015. Retrieved 23 March 2015.
  7. "New base for mental health services officially opened in Seaham". Northern Echo. 16 March 2015. Retrieved 23 March 2015.
  8. "Trust to complain to regulators over losing £190 million mental health contract". York Press. 12 June 2015. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
  9. "HSJ reveals the best places to work in 2015". Health Service Journal. 7 July 2015. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
  10. "Trusts ranked in 'learning from mistakes' league". Health Service Journal. 9 March 2016. Retrieved 2 May 2016.
  11. "West Lane Hospital in Middlesbrough to be closed". BBC. 23 August 2019. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
  12. "Trust in legal battle to end £321m PFI contract". Health Service Journal. 29 March 2018. Retrieved 28 May 2018.
  13. "Carillion staff transferred to NHS as PFI provider collapses". Health Service Journal. 19 June 2018. Retrieved 31 August 2018.
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