Cambridgeshire Community Services Trust is an

NHS trust An NHS trust is an organisational unit within the National Health Services of England and Wales, generally serving either a geographical area or a specialised function (such as an ambulance service). In any particular location there may be several ...

that was established as part of the programme called

Transforming Community Services Transforming Community Services was a programme in the English NHS which operated from 2008 at a national level and continued during the implementation of the Health and Social Care Act 2012. Although the rhetoric of the programme was about impro ...

under which a number of community health NHS trusts were established when these services were separated from primary care trusts.

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It runs: *

Peterborough Peterborough () is a cathedral city in Cambridgeshire, east of England. It is the largest part of the City of Peterborough unitary authority district (which covers a larger area than Peterborough itself). It was part of Northamptonshire until ...

integrated sexual health services *

Cambridgeshire Cambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs.) is a county in the East of England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the north-east, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the ...

community sexual health and contraceptive services *

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drug services * Ely musculo-skeletal services In 2022 it won a £8.4 million contract to provide mental health support to 7,000 children in Norfolk and Waveney schools for three years, taking over from Ormiston Families. They also provide health visitors, school nurses and speech and language therapists in the area, and in Peterborough and Cambridge.

History

The trust was established on 1 April 2010. It was part of two consortium bids for an £800m older people’s service contract for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough

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, first as part of a consortium with

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and private health firm Circle, and then with Optum, formerly UnitedHealth UK, when Capita opted to withdraw from the process. In April 2015 following the failure of these bids the trust transferred 1,360 staff to

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) provides community, mental health and learning disability services in Cambridgeshire, England, and specialist services across the east of England and nationally. History The Trust bec ...

and 115 to various other providers. It had, however, “won three multimillion pound contracts during 2014-15 to provide sexual health services in Norfolk and Suffolk, as well as the School Immunisation Programme across Cambridgeshire, Peterborough, Norfolk and Suffolk”. Subsequently the contract collapsed, after just eight months. It was named by the '' Health Service Journal'' as the best community trust to work for in 2015. At that time it had 2864 full-time equivalent staff and a sickness absence rate of 4.89%. 83% of staff recommend it as a place for treatment and 73% recommended it as a place to work. In 2019 the

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rated the trust outstanding and said it provided “excellent care and treatment, particularly in its community sexual health services”.

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Care Quality Commission inspection reports
{{Authority control Community health NHS trusts Health in Cambridgeshire

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