About Us
North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust is a provider of mental health, specialist learning disability and related services for people of all ages across a catchment population of approximately 463,000 people living in the northern part of the county of Staffordshire. The Trust has an income of c. £88 million and operates from more than 30 different facilities across North Staffordshire. Its purpose is working to improve the health and welfare of local communities.
Achieving Our Purpose
The Trust has a track record of delivering the highest standard of public services within a sound, sustainable and focused business framework. Our high performance is evidenced through:
- Our achievement of an excellent for quality of services to patients and good at managing finances in the 2007/08 Annual Health Check
- Maintaining financial balance through major change with financial targets having been fully met for a number of years
- Achieving ‘fully met’ for core standards and existing national targets
The Trust has reviewed its purpose, vision and values and developed five year strategic objectives and key performance indicators around five business priority areas:
- Customer focus
- Business development
- Finance
- Workforce
- Governance
Further information about the Trust’s profile, strategy and service development plans is contained in our Integrated Business Plan for 2008/09.
