Type of Trust<unk> <unk> trust<unk>  Region<unk>  Location Trust Details Last annual budget Employees Chair Pearse Butler Chief Executive Trish Armstrong-Child Links Website<unk><unk><unk>  Care Quality Commission reports CQC<unk>  is an<unk>  Foundation Trust providing health services in North Lancashire, England. It runs<unk>  Victoria<unk> which is a large busy acute<unk>  two smaller community<unk>  - Clifton<unk> and Fleetwood<unk>  the National Artificial Eye Service; Blenheim House Child Development Centre and community health services for North Lancashire. The organisation gained Foundation Trust status in 2007 as<unk> , Fylde and Wyre<unk> <unk>  Foundation Trust. In 2017 the trust established a subsidiary company, BFW Management Ltd (Trading as Atlas), to which 150 estates and facilities staff were transferred. The company as of 2019 employees over 200 staff. The intention was to achieve VAT benefits, as well as pay bill savings, by recruiting new staff on less expensive non-NHS contracts. VAT benefits arise because<unk>  trusts can only claim VAT back on a small subset of goods and services they buy. The Value Added Tax Act 1994 provides a mechanism through which<unk>  trusts can qualify for refunds on contracted out services. In 2021 Trish Armstrong-Child, Chief Executive of Southport and Ormskirk<unk><unk>  Trust was appointed chief executive. It is expected that the trust will take over tha management of Southport and Ormskirk.
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