Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s leading NHS Trusts focusing on mental health, learning disabilities and autism. Pennine Care runs 150 services from 88 different locations, for a population of 1.3 million people in five boroughs of Greater Manchester. These include child and adolescent services, psychological therapies, drug and alcohol services, psychiatric intensive care, rehabilitation services, and military veterans’ services.
Each year, colleagues provide care and treatment for 70,000 people. Some of these have mild to moderate conditions such as depression, anxiety or dementia, while others have more serious mental health illnesses such as schizophrenia and bi-polar disorder. They also support people with a moderate to profound level of learning disability, such as Down’s syndrome.
Pennine Care also carries out extensive research, and works in partnership with many different organisations, groups and communities in the public, private and charity sectors.
Their vision is a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in the local communities. Each year, their nearly 4,000 staff drive forward their mission to maximise people’s potential to live healthier and more rewarding lives. Recent achievements include their 24/7 mental health helpline supporting 20,000 people each year and their school-based mental health teams helping over 2,000 children in 150 schools.
Pennine Care Charity
We raise money for equipment, programmes and research which cannot be funded within the existing NHS budget. We are a small charity, but we have an ambitious goal to become a major source of extra funding to complement the excellent work Pennine Care does for the people of Greater Manchester.