WINNER: Somerset FT

Sponsored byhempsons

Patients and carers told the trust too often that they had to “fight” for high-quality mental healthcare, with experiences of deterioration occurring before eligibility criteria was reached, and a feeling that they were knocking on closed doors. The trust knew it had to radically change its services. The pandemic, and the increased demand for services, accelerated this ambition. In line with the long-term plan, in partnership with VCS colleagues and Experts by Experience, it developed an approach and services that support early intervention and prevention, equality of access and population health; with an overarching ethos of no wrong doors.

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Finalists

  • Lincolnshire Partnership FT
  • Midlands Partnership FT

Topics

The NHS’s ‘greatest generation’

Alastair Mclellan

The Americans have a name for those who were born between 1901 and 1927. Those who endured the great depression, fought the Second World War and then forged the economic miracle that enshrined the USA as the world’s leading power.