Livewell Southwest, formerly known as Plymouth Community Healthcare is a

community interest company A community interest company (CIC, colloquially pronounced "kick") is a type of company introduced by the United Kingdom government in 2005 under the Companies (Audit, Investigations and Community Enterprise) Act 2004, designed for social ente ...

established under 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 improv ...

programme in 2011. It employs two mental health teams working within

Derriford Hospital Derriford Hospital is a large teaching hospital in Plymouth, England. The hospital serves Plymouth and nearby areas of Devon and Cornwall. It also provides tertiary cardiothoracic surgery, neurosurgery and renal transplant surgery for the whol ...

, on the wards and in A&E and provide out of hours support to Derriford via on call mental health staff. It took over social services in the city of Plymouth in April 2015. In May 2015 it won a four-year contract to deliver Pathways for adults with complex needs for Plymouth, South Hams and West Devon by the Northern, Eastern and Western Devon

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 Integra ...

. It took over the 5 surgeries of the Plymouth Mayflower Medical Group, with about 40,000 patients, in 2022. It also set up a short-term care centre to help people recover after having hospital treatment, working with Age UK Plymouth.

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Plymouth Community Healthcare
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