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# New NHS Trust aims to offer healthcare options for Lichfield residents
- URL: https://lichfieldlive.co.uk/new-nhs-trust-aims-to-offer-healthcare-options-for-lichfield-residents/
- Published: 2011-11-17T11:00:15.000Z
- Updated: 2011-11-16T22:03:42.000Z
- Author: Lichfield Live
- Tags: #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-22 21:41, News

A new NHS organisation is aiming to provide Lichfield residents with healthcare options within their own homes.

The Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Partnership NHS Trust was launched this week with chairman Dr Nigel Ratcliffe insisting that closer involvement with local people and giving them a greater voice will ensure the highest quality of service is provided.

[![County councillor Matthew Ellis, Dr Nigel Ratcliffe and Simon Burns MP](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e3/90/e390c3da-0866-4d2a-8ffe-ca4999d7ce1c/content/images/lichfieldlive-co-uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/launch-nhs-trust-l2.jpg "County councillor Matthew Ellis, Dr Nigel Ratcliffe and Simon Burns MP")](//lichfieldlive.co.uk/2011/11/17/new-nhs-trust-aims-to-offer-healthcare-options-for-lichfield-residents/launch-nhs-trust-l2/)

County councillor Matthew Ellis, Dr Nigel Ratcliffe and Simon Burns MP

Health Minister Simon Burns MP added: “People across Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent can live more independently thanks to the new Partnership NHS Trust.

“The Partnership Trusts is working with patients to prevent them becoming ill, supporting them to make lifestyle changes and providing services which help them remain independent.”

More than 5,000 staff within the Partnership Trust will deliver services ranging from district nursing, health visiting, nutrition and dietetics to occupational and physiotherapy therapy, school nursing and speech and language therapy.

“We know that we provide the vast majority of our care to people at the most crucial point in their lives, in very vulnerable situations,” said Dr Ratcliffe.

“We want to ensure that people in Lichfield are not on waiting lists for unacceptable periods of time; that services when they are delivered are safe and most importantly that the patients and recipients of our care are treated with respect and dignity at all times.”

He continued: “People don’t want to be passed around like a parcel to different parts of the health and social care system and they want to be involved in decisions about the care they receive and influence the way services are planned and designed.

“Soon, we will be launching a membership scheme, which will provide a genuine way of ensuring that the public influence change.”

For more information on the Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Trust visit [www.staffordshireandstokeontrent.nhs.uk](http://www.staffordshireandstokeontrent.nhs.uk/?ref=lichfieldlive.co.uk).