10th Birthday
Celebrating 10 years
of working with
people and leading
communities to
improve their mental
and physical health
and wellbeing
1 April
2015
For a better life
April 2005
May 2005
Surrey and Borders
The Trust’s BME network
Partnership NHS Trust is born is formed
Going Live! marks the official
launch of the new Trust
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS
Trust is created on 1 April 2005 to
modernise mental health and learning
disability services across Surrey and
north east Hampshire. The new Trust,
led by chief executive Fiona Edwards,
is formed from the dissolution of three
other trusts in the area.
Our staff Black and Minority Ethnic
Network is established, playing a crucial
role in making us an employer of choice
for people from all backgrounds.
A one day event to celebrate the
beginning of the new Trust is
held at Dorking Halls on 17 May
2005. Speaking at the event, chief
executive, Fiona Edwards, tells the
audience she wants to create an
organisation that is “diverse, inclusive
and accessible to all”. This marks the
first of five annual birthday events.
May 2006
July 2005
People who use services and
carers get their say
Our Vision and Values
are created
People who use the Trust’s services,
their carers and families are given
the chance to influence standards
of care by becoming members of
FoCUS, the Forum of Carers and
People who Use Services. FoCUS’
first meeting with elected members
is held on 9th May 2006.
Our vision and values are launched as
a culmination of conversations and
workshops with over 600 people who
use services, carers, staff and partners
in previous months.
BME is now one of four staff networks
within the Trust. The Disability Staff
network was launched in 2007, the
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender
network followed in 2008 and the
Spirituality network in 2009.
Fiona opens the 2006 birthday event,
Making it Real
Nov 2006
Nov 2007
Feb 2008
Applying for Foundation
Trust status
Surrey and Borders wins
important CAMHS tender
Governors Elected
We announce our intention to apply
for Foundation Trust status. The
ambitious plan will make us more
accountable to local people and give
us greater financial independence. An
energetic membership recruitment
drive is launched to help our bid for
Foundation Trust status.
We are chosen as the preferred
provider of child and adolescent
mental health services (CAMHS)
across Surrey and the service
launches in April 2008. We beat off
strong competition from established
Foundation Trusts with excellent
ratings to secure the win.
We elect our first Council of Governors
in February 2008. Forty-seven
candidates stand for the 27 seats
representing people who use services
and carers as well as staff. They are
ready to swing into action when we
secure Foundation Trust status.
Oct 2008
May 2008
Focusing on high standards
Foundation Trust status is granted
Periodic Service Reviews (PSR) are
introduced in 2008 as our own
internal quality measurement tool.
The aim of these reviews is to
maintain and raise good practice
within local services and the PSR
continues to evolve today, raising the
benchmark for high quality care.
Our NHS Foundation Trust status is granted on 1 May 2008 with 8,100 public
and staff members. We become the first mental health and learning disability
Trust in the South East Coast NHS Region to gain this special status.
April 2009
Sept 2009
Fiona conducts her first
staff conversation
Creating same-sex accommodation
We start our first conversations
sessions between staff and chief
executive Fiona Edwards to start
unlocking those things that get in
the way of staff doing their day
job well. Fiona has now conducted
60 conversations with over 1000 staff.
Our commitment to ending same sex accommodation to protect the privacy
and dignity of older people who use our inpatient services is realised at Farnham
Road Hospital. Both the Albert and Victoria wards are refurbished and upgraded
by September 2009 to offer high quality, individual en-suite rooms.
Nov 2010
Oct 2009
Section 75 agreement signed
Single system for paperless
records goes live
We sign our first Section 75 agreement with Surrey County Council to formalise
our integrated health and social care services for adults with mental ill-health and
to bring benefits for carers with easier access to carers’ needs assessments. In
2013 we went on to sign a similar agreement with Hampshire County Council.
RiO – the web based electronic
clinical patient record system goes
live on 28 October 2009. Teams
from Children and Young People’s
Mental Health Services, Working Age
Adults and Specialist Services in the
North West are the first to make the
transition to RiO and fully electronic
patient records.
Standards for
Involving People
Following many months of work by
dedicated FoCUS members we launch
our Standards for Involving People to
help staff and services improve their
involvement of people who use services
and carers in everything we do.
Fiona signs the agreement with Sarah Mitchell from Surrey County Council
Jan 2011
Feb 2012
April 2012
Recovery focused
community services
Social Care Change
Programme draws to a close
Partnership working
in Hounslow
We hold the first of our workshops
with people who use services and
carers to talk about how recovery
focused community mental
health services could look. This is
followed by a redesign of our adult
services and subsequent launch of
Community Mental Health Recovery
Services in January 2012.
The last home in the Social Care
Change Programme closes its doors
to mark the end of an ambitious
programme to improve the quality
of life for hundreds of people with
learning disabilities. Over 70 homes
and day services are transferred to
specialist independent and voluntary
providers offering more individual care.
We win our first significant contract
to provide services outside of
Surrey and Hampshire with new
partners, Cranstoun. The new
service iHear launches to provide
drug and alcohol community
services to people in Hounslow.
March 2014
Dec 2013
CARE initiative is launched
10-year clinical strategy
is published
Following a competition for staff to devise a name or
acronym to help staff remember to do the right thing
every time, we launch CARE Communicate Aspire
Respond Engage as one of our aids to improve the
quality of care.
We publish our new clinical strategy
to place people, not conditions, at
the heart of all we do with a focus
on one person, one plan; promotion
of wellbeing through prevention and
early intervention; supporting people
with their recovery and working
in partnership with individuals,
communities and organisations.
April 2014
Sept 2014
March 2015
State of the art care
Leading the sector
in e-therapy
£30m investment in new
mental health hospital
We became one of the first mental
health trusts in the country to offer
e-therapy. One-on-one therapy sessions
with a counsellor are conducted
using skype style video conferencing
which enables people to access care
and support in their own homes,
modernising mental health services in
Surrey and North East Hampshire.
Our new 60 bedded state of the art
hospital in Guildford nears completion
with the exterior building works
completed. The hospital is set to open
four wards for adults with mental illhealth in November 2015.
In the spring of 2014 we unveiled
Oakwood, a £2m state of the art care
home in Caterham for people who
have autism spectrum conditions.
Its use of interactive technology is
enhancing the daily lives of the seven
people living there. The home was
commended in the Building Better
Healthcare Awards 2014.
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