Who we are and what we do
We are an NHS foundation trust with specialist expertise in mental health, dementia, learning disabilities and autism, providing a wide range of health and care services across the county of Lincolnshire.
Our vision remains to support people to live well in their communities.
We provide more than 50 services across the county and work together with our partners to ensure that everyone who comes through our doors receives compassionate, person-centred care, regardless of their background or circumstances.
We began in June 2002, when social care and health services, formerly provided by Lincolnshire County Council and Lincolnshire Healthcare NHS Trust, were brought together to create new mental health and learning disabilities services. Five years later, in October 2007, we were one of the first trusts to become a foundation trust. Today we are called Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (or LPFT for short) and continue to strive to deliver the very best care for our local community.
Lincolnshire at a glance
- 768,364 people living in Lincolnshire and a 9.5% population is expected by 2040
- 813,119 patients registered with our GP practices
- 23% of the population are aged over 65 with a 40% increase projected by 2040
- 1 in 5 children and young people had a probable mental health disorder in 2023 (NHS England Mental Health of Children and Young People in England 2023 report)
- 15.8% of adults have a common mental health disorder
- Lincolnshire is the second largest county in England
- 2.7% of people identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual or queer
- There is 1 district council and 7 district and borough councils
- 89% White British ethnicity
- A mixture of urban, rural and coastal areas
- 19.1% of people have a disability
- Referrals to specialist mental health services is higher than the national average (2019/20)
Source: Census Joint Strategic Needs Assessment 2023
LPFT in numbers
- 54,000 service users
- 36 governors
- 2,700 substantive whole time equivalent staff across a wide range of services, working from 50+ sites
- 12 inpatient wards
- 9,000 members
- Over £160m annual budget
Our team of over 2,700 dedicated professionals are passionate about what they do and live to six core
values in everything they do.
Our values
Compassion: Acting with kindness
Pride: Being passionate about what we do
Integrity: Leading by example
Valuing everybody: Using an inclusive approach
Innovation: Aspiring for excellence in all we do
Collaboration: Listening to each other and working together
They work tirelessly to care for people with mental health problems, learning disabilities and our autistic
community, supporting people in our hospitals and clinics, as well as people in their own homes, work, schools and communities.
Our colleagues go above and beyond to deliver care in the face of unprecedented challenges but remain
committed to our vision to support people to live well in their communities across the county.
We’re led by our Board of Directors, which is made up of executive directors (employed directly by the Trust) and non-executive directors (appointed by the Council of Governors), who set the Trust’s strategy.
Together, they oversee our work and are accountable for making certain that the care we provide is always of the highest quality. The Board relies on hundreds of leaders throughout the organisation who are responsible for individual aspects of our work.
As an NHS foundation trust, our Board is accountable to our Council of Governors, which is made up of service users, carers, members of the public, partners and LPFT staff. The council represents our local communities – those we serve – and ensures that our services are fit for purpose and reflective of the high standards the people in Lincolnshire deserve.
You can read about how we are well-led in our Accountability Report.
What we deliver
We provide a wide range of mental health, learning disability and autism services, with some social care to our Lincolnshire population and you can find the services we deliver listed under our four clinical divisions below.
Adult Inpatient and Urgent Care
• Single point of access (SPA)
• Adult acute inpatient wards
• Mental health rehabilitation wards
• Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
• Crisis resolution and home treatment
• Crisis response vehicle
• Low secure mental health inpatient unit
• Health based place of safety (Section 136 suite)
• Psychiatric clinical decisions unit
• Psychiatric intensive care unit
• Police control room mental health nurses
• Mental health urgent assessment centre
• Mental health liaison service
• Lincolnshire 111 Mental Health Team
Older People and Frailty
• Community mental health teams
• Mental health home treatment team
• Specialist older adult mental health ward
• Memory support service
• Community dementia teams
• Dementia home treatment team
• Specialist dementia ward
• Neuropsychology
• Psycho-oncology
• Chronic fatigue syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME)
• Older adult psychology
• Physical healthcare team
Adult Community Mental Health
• Integrated place-based mental health teams
• Community mental health teams
• Talking therapies
• Recovery college
• Adult social care team for mental health
• Best interest assessors
• Perinatal services, including for trauma and loss
• Individual placement support
• Holistic healthcare for the homeless
• Personality and complex trauma
• Early intervention in psychosis
• Community rehabilitation
Specialist
• Child and adolescent mental health service (CAMHS) community mental health teams
• CAMHS crisis and enhanced treatment teams
• Children and young person (CYP) mental health liaison
• CYP eating disorder service
• CYP learning disability service
• Healthy Minds
• Lincolnshire children and young people secure unit
• Mental health support teams
• CYP access team
• CYP complex needs service
• CYP psychological services
• CYP keyworker service
• Transforming care team
• Adult learning disabilities service
• Adult eating disorder service
• Adult autism diagnostic
• Virtual Autism Hub
• Sexual advice referral centre and independent sexual violence advisers
• Community forensic team
• Criminal justice liaison and diversion
• Reconnect
• Mental health treatment requirements team
• Veterans mental health services (Op COURAGE)
