We are a partnership organisation providing mental health and specialist learning disability services across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, and children's community services in Peterborough.
We also provide some specialist services on a regional and national basis. Our partners are Cambridgeshire County Council, Peterborough City Council, NHS Cambridgeshire and NHS Peterborough. We are a teaching Trust with a Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge. We aim to provide high-quality services that support individuals and their families to receive best practice care and treatment, and to achieve whole life.
Our services include: (for more information see the service directory)
- Children's services
- Adult mental health services
- Older people's mental health services
- Primary care services
- Forensic and specialist mental health services
- Substance misuse services
- Specialist learning disability services
Community learning disability services are provided by the Cambridgeshire Learning Disability Partnership and the Peterborough Learning Disability Partnership. Health staff working within learning disability services are managed by these partnerships but continue to be employed by the Trust. Inpatient intensive assessment and support services are provided by the Trust in collaboration with the Learning Disability Partnerships.
CPFT vision
We will deliver high-quality health and social care that promotes well-being and independence and which we are proud to recommend to our families and friends.
Our values
- We focus on the needs of the whole person
- We trust, value and develop each other
- We are good people to do business with
- We have high standards in all that we do
Cambridge University Health Partners (CUHP)
Cambridge University Health Partners is a new organisation which has been set up to drive forward the partnership between the National Health Service (NHS) and the University of Cambridge.
Cambridge University Health Partners is one of only five Academic Health Science Centres in England recognised by the Department of Health as internationally competitive centres of excellence in the integrated delivery of health care, health research and the education of health professionals.
The NHS organisations in the partnership are those that work most closely with the University in performing research and education and that involve academic doctors in the delivery of their services: Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
The objectives of CUHP will be the achievement of excellence in health care, research and education for public benefit.
Want to feedback about this article?