Our plans to integrate WHH and BCH are progressing well and we continue to work towards becoming one single organisation in April 2026, subject to approvals.
Earlier this year we asked for your views on the future name of our partnership. The partnership name reflects our organisations working increasingly closer and symbolises our creation of something new as we look to become an integrated provider of community and hospital services.
After careful consideration of feedback, it was agreed by our two Boards that our partnership name will be ‘North Cheshire and Mersey Healthcare Partnership’.
The partnership name does not replace our two existing organisational identities, and will be used limited circumstances, for example in our joint communications channels and in meetings where we have joint governance arrangements in place.
Our plan is for this to evolve into our future organisational name in April 2026 when we plan to become ‘North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust’, subject to the relevant approvals required.
Our site names, which our patients and communities are most familiar with, remain unchanged (e.g. Warrington Hospital, Halton Hospital, Halton Health Hub etc).
We know that our two organisations are stronger and better together, and these developments represent an important step as we continue our journey to become an integrated provider of high quality acute and community services.