Mental Health and Community Health Providers are to be inspected from April

The CQC has announced the second group of mental health and community health providers that will be inspected as part of the new approach to inspecting specialist mental health services.

The providers that are due to be inspected vary in size, specialisms and regions across England as the CQC continue to develop the improved inspection model for mental health and community healthcare.

The providers include:

Community health providers

•   Cambridgeshire Community Health Services NHS Trust

•   Kent Community Health NHS Trust

•   Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust

•   Liverpool Community Health NHS Trust

Mental health providers

•   Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

•   Calderstones Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

•   Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust

•   Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

•   Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Combined

•   Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

•   Bradford District Care Trust

•   Humber NHS Foundation Trust

Inspections will begin from April, and by December 2015, every NHS Trust will have been inspected.

Source: www.CQC.org.uk

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