Today (24 July) the Boards of Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust (NCH&C) and Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust (CCS) met jointly to confirm their plans to come together as an NHS Trust Group, heralding it as an exciting opportunity to make local community services stronger and more resilient.

The Group will see the coming together of two specialist community health and care providers that work across the East of England for the benefit of patients, communities, staff and partners. Under the Group model, NCH&C and CCS will remain independent organisations and have a single Board and executives who will lead the organisations into alignment from April 2025 onwards.

Matthew Winn, joint Chief Executive Officer for CCS and NCH&C, said: “This is an exciting opportunity to make things better for our patients and our staff, whilst also making our services stronger and more resilient.

“We already have so much in common, our values, services that provide great care and support to people, so they can lead their best and healthiest lives - but we can do even more together.

“Our Boards recognise the huge financial and demographic challenges on the horizon for smaller NHS Trusts. Demand and complexity of patient needs continue to increase, so having resilient specialist community health and care providers is essential. By operating together we will benefit from the combined skills, talents, and infrastructure of both organisations. We will be able to deliver the radical approach required to improve health outcomes for local people."

Find out more about NCH&C and CCS plans to create a group here www.nhsbuildingtrust.info  

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About Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust

Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust provides the following extensive portfolio of services: a range of children’s services to children, young people and families, adult community health services, integrated contraception and sexual health services, specialist and musculoskeletal physiotherapy services and neurotherapy services.

We are proud to provide high-quality services that enable people to live healthier lives and receive care closer to home.

For more information please visit https://www.cambscommunityservices.nhs.uk/

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For further information contact:

Lea Fountain
CCS Communications
Tel: 07912 496355
Email: lea.fountain@nhs.net

About Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust

NCH&C provides community-based NHS health and care via more than 70 different service locations across Norfolk, serving a population of nearly 900,000 people.

We believe that people are better looked after locally and this belief drives us to work hard to bring our expert care to patients in our seven community hospitals, within GP surgeries and in patients’ own homes.

Our focus is on continually improving the quality of care we offer to local people and on improving access to that care, helping people to move seamlessly from one service to another.

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For further information contact:

Vicky Brooke
NCH&C Communications
Tel: 07747115764
Email: vicky.brooke@nchc.nhs.uk