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Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust was ranked 58 out of 61 non-acute trusts nationally(Image: MEN)<\/p>\nThe NHS Trust has faced a turbulent few yearsGreater Manchester Mental Health Trust was ranked 58 out of 61 non-acute trusts nationally(Image: MEN)<\/p>\n
A mental health trust in Greater Manchester has been named among the worst in the country. Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS<\/a> Foundation Trust (GMMH) has been ranked 58 out of 61 non-acute trusts across the country as part of a new ‘league table’ initiative<\/a>.<\/p>\n The new rankings<\/a> published on Tuesday (September 9), evaluate acute, non-acute and ambulance trusts across England, looking at financial performance, patient access to treatment and surgical waiting lists as well as A&E delays and ambulance response times.<\/p>\n One trust in Greater Manchester – The Christie NHS Foundation Trust – ranked third nationally in the league table for acute trusts which provide hospital-based care offering services such as A&E, inpatient and outpatient treatment and surgery, and specialist care.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, North West Ambulance Service<\/a> NHS Trust, which covers Greater Manchester, was the top-rated of its kind in England.<\/p>\n Sign up to the MEN Politics newsletter Due North here<\/a><\/p>\n However, GMMH, was the fourth lowest ranked of the 61 non-acute trusts – which provide long-term care – across the country. It comes after a turbulent few years at the mental health trust mired in controversy since allegations of patient abuse were exposed.<\/p>\n Shocking findings were revealed in a BBC<\/a> Panorama documentary in 2022 which showed patients being abused by staff in the trust’s Edenfield Centre<\/a> – an inpatient mental health facility on the site of the former Prestwich<\/a> Hospital which has recently been renamed<\/a>.<\/p>\n Before that episode aired, the Manchester Evening News had been reporting on the unsafe understaffing of those mental health services and how trust failures had been cited in court as contributing to the tragic deaths<\/a> of people supposed to be under its care.<\/p>\n GMMH has long been criticised by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) – the health watchdog which rated some of its services ‘inadequate’ last year<\/a> – and has been the subject of investigations by the Good Governance Institute, NHS<\/a> England and GMP.<\/p>\n The mental health trust has now been ranked among the lowest in the country in the national league table for non-acute trusts.<\/p>\n