Isle of Wight NHS Trust
NHS trust serving the Isle of Wight
The Isle of Wight NHS Trust is an NHS trust which provides physical health, mental health and ambulance services for the Isle of Wight.
The trust is unique in being the only integrated acute, community, mental health and ambulance health care provider in England.
It runs St Mary's Hospital and the Isle of Wight Ambulance Service.
History
The trust was established on 1 April 2012 following the separation of the provider and commissioning functions of the Isle of Wight Primary Care Trust.
The trust formed a strategic partnership with Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust in 2019, aimed at addressing the sustainability of certain small-scale acute services on the Isle of Wight and, as of June 2023, the two trusts share a chair and chief executive.
In 2021, it was announced that the Ambulance Service will follow a new five year strategy that will see it having a closer working relationship and support from South Central Ambulance Service.
Acute care
In January 2018, the CCG proposed that Isle of Wight patients needing high risk and complex emergency and elective surgery should in future be treated in Portsmouth and Southampton. Some outpatient appointments could be conducted remotely. The trust has established an emergency care hub at the hospital where social workers have joined ambulance crews, mental health teams and district nurses are based together. The social work service established in the A&E department has been held out as an example to follow, because it has significantly reduced the number of hospital admissions.
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