Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust is an NHS trust which provides adult and children's community health services.
| Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust | |
|---|---|
| Type | NHS trust |
| Established | 1 April 2011 |
| Headquarters | Teddington, London, England |
| Hospitals | Teddington Memorial Hospital |
| Staff | 1,244 WTE (2023)[1] |
| Website | hrch |
History edit
The trust was established on 1 April 2011 as part of the Transforming Community Services initiative from the community services arm of the then Hounslow and Richmond primary care trusts.[2]
Stephen Swords was chair of the board when it was established until he was succeeded by Sian Bates on 1 February 2020. Sukhvinder Kaur-Stubbs was subsequently appointed Chair in Common at Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust and Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust from 1 April 2022.[3]
Performance edit
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 868 full-time equivalent staff and a sickness absence rate of 3.38%. 72% of staff recommend it as a place for treatment and 61% recommended it as a place to work.[4]
The trust now employs 1,140 people.
Services and locations edit
Some of the services offered by the trust include:
- Adult services
- Community nursing, therapies, in-patient unit
- Urgent care and walk-in services
- Richmond Rapid Response Team, Hounslow Integrated Community Response Service,
- Community recovery service
- Specialist services
- Neurorehabilitation, continence services and continuing care
- Children's services
- Paediatric (child development; continuing care, therapies) universal children's services (health visiting, community nursing, Family Nurse Partnership), audiology, Hounslow
- School nursing (from April 2018)
- Childhood immunisations
- Richmond, Kingston, Sutton, Merton, Bromley, Bexley, Lambeth and Southwark
- Health and wellbeing
- One You Hounslow
- One You Merton
- Live Well Sutton
It is responsible for Teddington Memorial Hospital.
In Hounslow, it provides services from:
- Bedfont clinic
- Brentford Health Centre
- Chiswick Health Centre
- Feltham Centre for Health
- Heart of Hounslow Centre for Health
- Heston Health Centre
- Hounslow House
- Hounslow Urgent Care Centre
- Therapies Centre (O Block - West Middlesex Hospital)
In Richmond, it provides services from:
- Centre House
- Ham Clinic
- Richmond Rehab Unit
- Teddington Health and Social Care Centre
- Teddington Memorial Hospital
- Urgent Treatment Centre at Teddington Memorial Hospital
- Whitton Corner Health and Social Care Centre
References edit
- ^ "Annual Report" (PDF). Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust.
- ^ "The Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 2011". legislation.gov.uk. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
- ^ "Stephen Swords reappointed as chair of Hounslow and Richmond NHS Trust". Get West London. 19 March 2015. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
- ^ "HSJ reveals the best places to work in 2015". Health Service Journal. 7 July 2015. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
External links edit
- Official website
- Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust on the NHS website
- Inspection reports from the Care Quality Commission