West London Mental Health Trust provides a full range of local mental health services for children, adults and older people to the London Boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith and Fulham, and Hounslow as well as specialist and forensic mental health services, including high secure services to a much wider catchment area.

The Trust reports to the NHS Executive through the North-West London Strategic Health Authority. It was created in 2001 by the merger of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham Mental Health NHS Trust and Broadmoor Hospital Authority.

It was further enlarged by the absorption of the Hounslow Mental Health Services following the dissolution of the Hounslow and Spelthorne Mental Health and Community Trust in 2002.

In 2003, the remainder of the Hounslow Services for adults and older people previously based at Ashford hospital, managed for one year by the North-West Surrey Mental Health Partnership, was also absorbed. The Trust has a large geographical spread, approximately 45 miles from the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham to Broadmoor Hospital. It has about 30 significant sites with a turnover of £165 million. It employs approx 3,500 members of staff and provides around 1200 beds of which about 650 are secure.

Key commissioning relationships are with the three Primary Care Trusts, four local services to the London boroughs, the specialist commissioners for mental health in the north-west London sector and the cluster group for high security commissioning.

West London Mental Health has a larger than usual board as a result of the presence of Broadmoor Hospital within the Trust - 7 Executive Directors, 7 Non-executive Directors and a Chairman.

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