Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust is a
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 ...
which provides community health services to a number of
London boroughs, as well as
Hertfordshire.
History
In 2009, the community service parts of Hammersmith and Fulham, Kensington and Chelsea, and Westminster
primary care trusts merged, as part 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. This combined organisation was established as an NHS trust on 1 November 2010. The organisation merged with Barnet Community Services on 1 April 2011.
It has a back-office support contract with
Capita
Capita plc, commonly known as Capita, is an international business process outsourcing and professional services company headquartered in London.
It is the largest business process outsourcing and professional services company in the United K ...
for IT, recruitment, payroll, estates and facilities management services.
It ran the Soho Square and Milne House general practices in Westminster but abandoned the loss-making contracts in July 2014.
It was named by the
Health Service Journal as one of the top hundred NHS trusts to work for in 2015. At that time it had 2577 full-time equivalent staff and a sickness absence rate of 4.04%. 64% of staff recommend it as a place for treatment and 53% recommended it as a place to work.
In April 2016 it took over community service for Merton CCG practices. In October 2017 the trust took over the contract for community services in Wandsworth, worth £51.6 million from
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Services
It runs an 18-bed ‘intermediate care’ ward at
Charing Cross Hospital
Charing Cross Hospital is an acute general teaching hospital located in Hammersmith, London, United Kingdom. The present hospital was opened in 1973, although it was originally established in 1818, approximately five miles east, in central L ...
in partnership with
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is an NHS trust based in London, England. It is one of the largest NHS trusts in England and together with Imperial College London forms an academic health science centre.
The trust was formed in October 200 ...
.
It runs the
St Charles' Centre for Health and Wellbeing on the site of St Charles' Hospital in Ladbroke Grove. The site is also used by
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust is an NHS Foundation Trust in England. It provides healthcare in London, Milton Keynes, Surrey and elsewhere. It was created in 2002 by a merger between Brent, Kensington & Chelsea and Westminst ...
, which provides mental health services there.
In August 2022 it started using the
DrDoctor care co-ordination platform, integrated with
EMIS Web, to let patients to choose when they attend appointments.
References
External links
Official websiteCQC inspection reports
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Health in London
Community health NHS trusts