Tees, Esk & Wear Valleys NHS Trust

Organisational background

This project will support two contrasting mental health sites: a 63 bed inpatient unit with 8 SHOs in a rural setting with a population of 330,000 (Wiltshire) and one in an urban setting with 64 beds and a population of 300,000 (Tees).

Both Trusts are actively engaged in a number of NWW initiatives and see this project as an integral, logical part of the expansion of such work. The two project sponsors are already working together as joint associate directors for NWW with the Care Service Improvement Partnership. They will both be able to integrate their learning from that project and use their networking arrangements to disseminate learning to the wider NHS.