 In March 2015 Knowsley Clinical Commissioning Group told the Trust to improve its performance in Improving Access to Psychological Therapies services, where patients had been waiting longer that the 28-day target from referral to first treatment and recovery rates averaged 45%, 5% below the national target.It joined a consortium with St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, and St Helens Rota in 2017 to take over community health services in St Helens.In March 2017, the Trust opened Atherleigh Park, its state-of-the-art £40m mental health hospital to patients in Wigan and Leigh.