1 CASE STUDY Adult Acute Inpatient Wards ’ Improvement Programme Background This NHS Foundation Trust employs more than 6,000 staff and is one of the largest mental health and disability Trusts in England. Spread across more than 60 sites in an area totalling 2,200 square miles, it serves a population of approximately 1.4 million. Services offered include: Inpatient Care, Community Services, and Specialist Services In August 2015, Meridian were invited to carry out an analysis following a successful project with the forensic inpatient wards for the same organisation. This time, the focus was on five acute wards. The overall objective of the Trust was to achieve the behavioural change required to reduce the occupancy of the adult acute wards in two locations

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