Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust
TypeNHS trust
Established1 April 2011
HeadquartersTeddington, London, England
HospitalsTeddington Memorial Hospital
Staff1,244 WTE (2023)[1]
Websitehrch.nhs.uk

Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust is an NHS trust which provides adult and children's community health services.

History

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

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

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
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

  1. ↑ "Annual Report" (PDF). Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust.
  2. ↑ "The Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 2011". legislation.gov.uk. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  3. ↑ "Stephen Swords reappointed as chair of Hounslow and Richmond NHS Trust". Get West London. 19 March 2015. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
  4. ↑ "HSJ reveals the best places to work in 2015". Health Service Journal. 7 July 2015. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
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