History of Somerset Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
The Somerset Partnership NHS Foundation Trust was authorised on 1 May 2008. Its’ predecessor organisation, Somerset Partnership NHS and Social Care Trust, was formed in 1999, and was the first integrated health and social care partnership trust in England. Until 1 August 2011, the Trust was the provider of specialist mental health and learning disability services in Somerset.
On 1 August 2011, these services were augmented by the acquisition of Somerset’s community health services, previously provided by an arm’s length body of NHS Somerset, the primary care trust, as part of the government’s Transforming Community Services programme to remove the provision of community health services from primary care trusts.
What We Do
We provide a wide range of community health, mental health and learning disability services and social care to people of all ages in Somerset and neighbouring counties. We also provide specialist mental health inpatient services to people from across the south west.
We have 13 community hospitals across the county, and four hospital sites from which we provide mental health inpatient services. We see people in our community team bases, in GP surgeries and local clinics, in a range of non NHS community settings, and at home.
Services are provided in partnership with other statutory agencies and a range of voluntary sector providers. Community services are delivered in people’s homes and other non-NHS premises, as well as community team bases.
