Locala Community Partnerships is a
community interest company providing NHS community services in Yorkshire. It was developed by
Kirklees
Kirklees is a local government district of West Yorkshire, England, governed by Kirklees Council with the status of a metropolitan borough. The largest town and administrative centre of Kirklees is Huddersfield, and the district also includes ...
Primary Care Trust as a result of the
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 ...
initiative in 2011.
Their first generation of mobile workers used rugged
Toughbook
Toughbook is a line of rugged computers produced and marketed by Panasonic Corporation. The Toughbook, introduced in 1996 with the CF-25, is designed to withstand outside forces which would damage or destroy normal laptops. Toughbook mobile com ...
laptops and had access to clinical records, but had to go back to the office for anything else. They then developed a Facebook-style intranet called Elsie with personal profiles, photographs and details of employee personal interests enabling staff to confer remotely. Both patients and staff can use Microsoft Lync. All staff are now equipped with mobile devices using
Dell technology with a hybrid cloud which can be used by employees over 3G or Wi-Fi to create and access records and manage work schedules. This permits staff to work without having repeatedly to return to an office base, which saves time in an area which is 40% rural. The digital system costs around 7% of the organisation’s turnover.
In April 2015 it won a contract to manage school nurses in Calderdale, previously run by
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust runs Huddersfield Royal Infirmary, Huddersfield and Calderdale Royal Hospital, Halifax, both in West Yorkshire, England. It became a Foundation Trust in 2006.
The rebuilding of Calderdale Royal ...
. The local authority rejected a bid by Locala to run sexual health services jointly with the trust and decided to go with the trust alone.
Chief executive Robert Flack had a 27% pay rise – £26,000 – in 2014 while the staff bonus scheme – yearly gift vouchers worth £40 – was scrapped.
The organisation won a tender for the Care Closer to Home contract worth £284.9m over 7 years from Greater Huddersfield and North Kirklees
clinical commissioning group
Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) were NHS organisations set up by the Health and Social Care Act 2012 to organise the delivery of NHS services in each of their local areas in England. On 1 July 2022 they were abolished and replaced by Integ ...
s in June 2015. It will be delivered in a partnership with
South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust a local hospice and other third sector organisations.
In March 2022 it was awarded a new contract to deliver sexual health services in Stockport and Tameside.
References
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External links
Locala website
Private providers of NHS services
Health in Yorkshire
Community interest companies
Companies based in Kirklees