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Wakefield and Pontefract Community Health NHS Trust

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Wakefield and Pontefract Community Health NHS Trust was a community health trust which served the Wakefield metropolitan district, West Yorkshire providing community, mental health and learning disability services.[1]

Logo of the former Wakefield and Pontefract Community Health NHS Trust
Former Trust HQ, St. John's North, Wakefield

History

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The trust was formed on 1 April 1993[2][3] and operated from a number of locations including Fieldhead Hospital, The Yorkshire Centre for Forensic Psychiatry (also known as Newton Lodge) the former Castleford, Normanton and District Hospital, Southmoor Hospital and Ackton Hospital (all now closed) and numerous health centres and other standalone units across the Wakefield district.[4]

The headquarters for the trust was called Fernbank and was located at 3-5 St. John’s North, Wakefield which upon disestablishment of the trust in 2002, the buildings were returned to residential occupation with the four-storey office block connected to the main building at the rear was refurbished and converted into flats.

Disestablishment

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The trust was disestablished on 1 April 2002 when the mental health services were taken over by South West Yorkshire Mental Health NHS Trust which also took over mental health services in Kirklees and Calderdale.[5] The community health services were taken over by the newly created Wakefield West and Eastern Wakefield primary care trusts.[6]

References

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  1. ^ "About Wakefield and Pontefract Community Health NHS Trust". 18 October 2001. Archived from the original on 18 October 2001. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
  2. ^ Kanji, Gopal K. (1996). Total Quality Management in Action. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. ISBN 9400915438. OCLC 851392424.
  3. ^ "The Wakefield and Pontefract Community Health National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1992". www.legislation.gov.uk. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
  4. ^ "Trust Sites". 18 October 2001. Archived from the original on 18 October 2001. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
  5. ^ "The South West Yorkshire Mental Health National Health Service Trust (Establishment) and the Wakefield and Pontefract Community National Health Service Trust (Dissolution) Order 2002". www.legislation.gov.uk. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
  6. ^ "Wakefield and Pontefract Community Health NHS Trust news". 10 March 2002. Archived from the original on 10 March 2002. Retrieved 3 February 2018.