Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Trust consists of the following provider divisions:
- Ashton, Leigh and Wigan Division
- Halton and St Helens Division
- Trafford Division
- Warrington Division
- Community Dental Services for all of the above and also in Bolton, Tameside and Glossop, Stockport and Western Cheshire.
Please note that each of the links listed above will direct you to the divisions’ existing web sites which will provide you with more information on the services each division provides.
The Trust footprint (excluding community dental services) covers 322 square miles, a population of more than one million residents in the North West and has a combined workforce of more than 4,200 staff.
The Trust was formed as a result of NHS reforms requiring NHS providers to become separate from their local Primary Care Trusts. As part of this process a number of other NHS community providers transferred to the community healthcare trust formerly known as Ashton, Leigh and Wigan Community Healthcare.
These transfers took place on 1 April 2011 and to reflect this change the Trust initiated a legal process to change its name to Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Trust following a consultation with staff and key partners.
The new trust name comes from the Bridgewater Canal which encircles a significant proportion of the boroughs in which the trust will provide services The canal runs in a crescent from Leigh, through Worsley, Sale, Altrincham, Lymm, Warrington and Runcorn and joins up to the wider North West canal network.
Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Trust aims to become one of the first Community Foundation Trusts by 2013.
This is the main website for Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Trust but it also acts as a portal for the Trust with links to existing websites for each of the Trust’s five divisions.
Organisational Structure
Form informaiton on our Board Members please see our Board Members Profile page.
