Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust

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

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 Edit this at Wikidata

History

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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

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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

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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

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  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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