The Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys Foundation NHS Trust is an NHS trust that provides mental health services. It covers the 1.4 million people living in County Durham, Teesside, North East Yorkshire and York, England. The trust's annual income is approximately £200 million, and the trust employs about 5,000 staff who work from over 200 offices. The headquarters of the trust are located at West Park Hospital, Darlington. The trust was created in 2006 through the merger of two specialist health trusts; the County Durham and Darlington Priority Services NHS Trust and the Tees and North EastYorkshire NHS Trust. It was praised, in 2007, by the independent watchdog, the Healthcare Commission, for the quality of its services. In April 2020 it opened Foss Park, a 72-bed facility for people with dementia or conditions such as psychosis, severe depression or anxiety in York. It has a section 136 assessment suite for people detained under the Mental Health Act, and an electroconvulsive therapy suite.
Performance
The Care Quality Commission inspection in December 2014 was positive with patients and carers said they were treated with respect and courtesy by staff. In 2015 the trust opened the Old Vicarage, in Seaham, as part of its commitment to modernise its mental health and learning disabilities services, with a team of nurses, doctors, therapists, psychologists, support and social workers previously based at Easington Medical Centre. It was awarded a contract to run mental health and learning disability services in the York area to start in October 2015. 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 5437 full-time equivalent staff and a sickness absence rate of 5.11%. 70% of staff recommend it as a place for treatment and 64% recommended it as a place to work. In March 2016 the trust was ranked fourth in the Learning from Mistakes League. In August 2019 the trust's West Lane Hospital in Middlesbrough was closed by the Care Quality Commission after the deaths of two seventeen-year-old female patients.
The trust established a private finance initiative contract with Three Valleys Healthcare for the £75 million Roseberry Park Hospital in Middlesbrough, a 312-bed hospital built by Laing O'Rourke. It required payment of a total of £321 million to the company until 2039-40. Three Valleys Healthcare Holdings, the parent company went into administration in 2017. In June 2017 it issued a "termination notice" because of building defects and problems with the fire safety system and claimed damages because of missed targets by the hard facilities management service, delivered by Carillion, and costs incurred by the construction problems. In 2011 it was the first trust to buy out a PFI contract, related to the rebuilding of West Park Hospital in Darlington. In June 2018 Three Valleys Healthcare Limited went into liquidation as a result of the collapse of Carillion. The affected staff were moved to a subsidiary company which the trust had set up.
