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.

The Trust's Vision

The Trust will provide patient centred mental health, specialist learning disability and related services for people of all ages; aiming to be the best in all that we do and working in partnership to deliver services that promote recovery, well being and independent living.

Our Values

We have consulted with patients, service users, carers and our staff about what our values should be. We encourage staff to apply these values in their work with people who come into contact with our services. We have pledged to promote our values in all the places where we provide support for people and to support each other in making sure as much as we can that we uphold these values in all that we do. Click here to see the Trust's values.

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.