Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

Mental Health

Utilising over 130 sites, including seven community hospitals, Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust services approximately 53,000 service users per year.

The trust specialises in providing mental health services across Bolton, Manchester, Salford and Trafford, as well as providing more specialised services to the wider area. Services the trust offer includes crisis care, inpatient care at five hospitals, child and adolescent mental health services and community psychological therapies. The trust is also a mental health provider across a number of criminal justice settings.

Figures for this Trust

  • Number of Patient Safety Incidents & harm caused
    April 2020 to March 2021
    • Death
      66
    • Severe
      31
    • Moderate
      499
    • Low
      2,615
    • None
      11,274
    Total 14,485
  • Top 3 categories of Patient Safety Incident
    April 2020 to March 2021
    1. Self-harming behaviour
    2. Disruptive, aggressive behaviour
    3. Patient accident

  • Percentage of total
    beds occupied overnight
    January to March 2024
    Percentage of total beds occupied overnight
    85.6%

  • Number of mixed sex
    accommodation breaches
    June 2024
    Number of mixed sex accommodation breaches
    0
  • Percentage of patients followed up within 7 days of mental health discharge
    October to December 2019
    Percentage of patients followed up within 7 days of mental health discharge
    95.7%

  • Number of Never Events and number by category
    Number of Never Events and
    number by category
    1 April 2021 to 31 August 2021
    0
  • Wrong site surgery - 0
  • Retained foreign object post procedure - 0
  • Wrong implant/prosthesis - 0
  • Misplaced naso- or orogastric tubes - 0
  • Overdose of insulin due to abbreviations or incorrect device - 0
  • Administration of medication by the wrong route - 0
  • Overdose of methotrexate for non cancer treatment - 0
  • Failure to install functional collapsible shower or curtain rails - 0
  • Transfusion or transplantation of ABO incompatible blood components or organs - 0
  • Unintentional connection of a patient requiring O2 to an air flowmeter - 0
  • Misselection of high strength midazolam - 0
  • Misselection of a strong potassium solution - 0
  • Falls from poorly restricted windows - 0
  • Chest or neck entrapment in bed rails - 0
  • Scalding of patients - 0