Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust

The Trust was last inspected between 30 May 2018 and 5 July 2018 using the current methodology. 

At the inspection in 2018, we rated the Trust as requires improvement overall with ratings of requires improvement in the safe and well-led key questions. We rated the Trust as good in the effective, caring and responsive key questions. 

At this inspection, we completed a well-led review of the Trust and inspected five of the core services delivered by the Trust between 6 January 2020 and 5 February 2020. The five core services we inspected were: 

• Acute mental health wards and one psychiatric intensive care unit for adults of working age 

• Mental health crisis services and health-based place of safety
• Forensic inpatient low secure wards
• Community-based mental health services for adults of working age 

• Wards for older people with mental health problems 

On this inspection our rating of the Trust went down to inadequate: we rated safe and well-led as inadequate, effective and responsive as requires improvement, and caring as good.