North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare is proud to publish its Annual Report and Accounts 2024/25.
You can download a copy of the Annual Report and Accounts by clicking on the image below.
The Annual Report gives details of the performance and achievements of the Trust during the financial year to 31st March 2025.
In their joint introduction to the Annual Report, the Chief Executive, Dr Buki Adeyemo and Chair, Janet Dawson, say
“Welcome to our Annual Report for the year 2024/25. Another truly Outstanding Year for Combined and its people.
We are often told by our staff that working at Combined feels like being part of a family. As everyone knows, at their best, families celebrate each other in the good times and support each other in challenging times. That has never been truer than in the year just passed.
As we write this introduction, we are conscious that the current challenges facing the NHS are amongst the most severe many of us will have encountered in years of working there. We should be under no illusion about the magnitude of the task. Difficult decisions will need to be taken. Challenging choices will need to be made.
One choice that we can make is to be as proactive, brave, and radical as we can be in meeting the challenges facing us. That is the best and surest way to secure our future.
We know we can rise to this challenge because we’ve done it before. We have the right values, the right priorities and, above all else, the right people.
At Combined, we have never been content to sit back or run away from a challenge. If we had done that, we would never have become Outstanding or secured recognition as the first mental health trust to win NHS Trust of the Year. We know a call to action when we see one.
This Annual Report demonstrates how our people have once again responded magnificently to the challenges before them.
By 31st March 2025, to give just a few examples. the Trust had:
- delivered its 26th consecutive year of delivering financial balance, the entirety of the current century
- completed its 6th year of being rated Outstanding by the Care Quality Commission
- become the first NHS Trust to be awarded Silver Status by the One NHS Finance Engagement Value Outcome (EVO)Framework
- continued a proud record of innovation and growth, with further new services, new facilities and new teams
- improved care planning in co-production with service users and carers
- reduced response times to referrals for Autism Spectrum Disorder
- reduced Do Not Attend rates with Community Mental Health Teams
- improved the transition for young people leaving CAMHS and accessing adult services
- delivered further historic capital investment in our medium-term future, as we continued to eradicate dormitory accommodation and shared bathroom facilities as part of a major capital upgrade at Harplands Hospital – Project Chrysalis.
Supporting and advancing research and innovation are things that are extremely important to us, and we are proud that this Annual Report contains details of our continuing success in this regard.
One thing we keep constantly in mind is that strategies, plans and aims are nothing without brilliant, talented, determined and compassionate people to make them a reality. If there is one major theme that has run throughout everything we have done this year, it has been our unwavering commitment to protecting and promoting the health and wellbeing of everyone for whom we have responsibility – staff and service users.
In this regard, one of the most welcome things we saw this year was the results of the NHS Staff survey which showed us – yet again – to have maintained our record of being amongst the higher scoring Trusts in the NHS, with above average scores across all the NHS People Promise domains and increased staff morale. We would like to take this opportunity to record our thanks to everyone who has contributed to the success of Combined this year. We cannot do what we do without our amazing team.
We hope you enjoy reading this Annual Report. It really has been another remarkable year for North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust.”
