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.
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.
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.
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
Neurorehabilitation, continence services and continuing care
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
External links
Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust on the NHS website Inspection reports from the Care Quality Commission