Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust provides specialist mental health services to people in Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and the surrounding counties and highly specialist services to patients from across the UK. Most people we care for are referred to our services by their GP (family doctor). Services are provided for adults of working age, older adults, children and adolescents.

One in four people are affected by mental illness, about two in every thousand people need specialist care for serious conditions such as severe anxiety or depression, eating disorders or addictions. We have a number of bases across both counties, which provide day care, inpatient services, and services in the community.

The Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust exists to support people's recovery from mental ill-health and to promote their well-being.

The core aims through which we will deliver this vision are to:

• be the provider of choice for mental health services in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire - offering mental health care which people choose to use, which GPs recommend, and which offers choices for people whilst using our services
• improve the mental health of the communities we serve
• deliver a comprehensive network of personalised mental health and social care in partnership with other providers
• deliver real benefits from our strong partnerships with universities
• be an employer for which staff actively choose to work
• be transparent in all our dealings and always ready to explain our decisions and spending plans