Cumbria Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Type of Trust
NHS hospital trust
Location
Trust Details
Last annual budget
Employees 4000
Chair
Chief Executive
Links
Website Cumbria Partnership
Care Quality Commission reports CQC

Cumbria Partnership NHS Foundation Trust was an NHS foundation trust that provided mental health and community services in Cumbria, England. It ran the Ramsey Unit at Furness General Hospital, Barrow In Furness, Mary Hewetson Cottage Hospital, Keswick Penrith Community Hospital, Cockermouth Community Hospital, Workington Community Hospital, Victoria Cottage Hospital (Maryport, Cumbria), Reiver House and The Carleton Clinic, Carlisle.

It became an NHS Foundation Trust in October 2007[1] and took over community services in the county in 2010.[2]

The Trust was criticised by the Care Quality Commission in 2013 over failings at the Ramsey Unit in the grounds of Furness General Hospital but two subsequent inspections were more positive.[3] It was rated inadequate in 2016 but in 2017 an inspection of health visitors, school nurses, therapies, children's nurses, community paediatrics, sexual health and family nurse partnerships rated them good.[4]

It expects a deficit of £10 million for 2015/6.[5]

In 2018 it proposed to merge with North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust.[6] The two trusts merged on 1 October 2019, forming North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust.[7]

  1. ^ "CUMBRIA'S FIRST NHS FOUNDATION TRUST IS AUTHORISED". Times and Star. 4 October 2007. Archived from the original on 2 December 2013. Retrieved 15 November 2013.
  2. ^ "FUTURE OF CUMBRIA COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE TO BE FINALISED". Times and Star. 20 September 2010. Archived from the original on 2 December 2013. Retrieved 15 November 2013.
  3. ^ "Cumbria Partnership NHS Foundation Trust will be more 'open'". BBC News. 25 April 2014. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
  4. ^ "From 'inadequate' to 'good' for Cumbrian health services". Westmorland Gazette. 21 April 2017. Retrieved 21 April 2017.
  5. ^ "Emergency savings drive and stretch targets fail to reduce provider deficit". Health Service Journal. 28 September 2015. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  6. ^ "Acute and mental health trusts to merge". Health Service Journal. 7 June 2018. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
  7. ^ "The Trust". North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust. Retrieved 30 October 2019.