Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust is an NHS provider of community services in Kent, East Sussex and Newham. It was awarded
Foundation Trust
A foundation trust is a semi-autonomous organisational unit within the National Health Service in England. They have a degree of independence from the Department of Health and Social Care (and, until the abolition of SHAs in 2013, their local s ...
status in March 2015.
The organisation, which has about 5,500 staff, was formed on 1 April 2011 by a merger of Eastern and Coastal Kent Community Services NHS Trust and West Kent Community Health, as part of the
Transforming Community Services
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programme.
It was named by the
Health Service Journal
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History
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as one of the top hundred NHS trusts to work for in 2015. At that time it had 4467 full-time equivalent staff and a sickness absence rate of 4.2%. 69% of staff recommend it as a place for treatment and 54% recommended it as a place to work.
Virgin Care
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secured a seven-year £126 million contract to run services in community hospitals in Dartford, Gravesham, Swanley and Swale in January 2016 formerly provided by the trust.
It was rated “outstanding” by the
Care Quality Commission
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in July 2019.
See also
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Healthcare in Kent
Healthcare in Kent has, from 1 July 2022, been mainly the responsibility of the Kent & Medway Integrated Care Board. Certain specialised services are directly commissioned by NHS England, coordinated through the South East integrated regional tea ...
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List of NHS trusts
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References
External links
Trust website
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NHS foundation trusts
Health in Kent