Special review of mental health services at Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Over the last 5 years, we have raised a number of concerns about the quality of community and inpatient mental health services at Nottingham Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (NHFT).

Excluding Rampton Hospital and prison services, since 2020 we have inspected 10 mental health services at NHFT. With the exception of forensic inpatient services which was rated as good in February 2022, all of these services were rated as requires improvement or inadequate.

We suspended the trust’s rating on 29 January 2024 after we were commissioned to carry out a Section 48 review, and concerns were raised about the trust’s ability to keep people and patients safe.

This section of the report, which sets out our findings around safety and quality of care provided by NHFT, draws on a range of evidence sources, including findings from our October and November 2023 inspections.