Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) provides community, mental health and learning disability services in
Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs.) is a Counties of England, 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 North ...
, England, and specialist services across the east of England and nationally.
History
The Trust became a
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 ...
in June 2008.
In 2010, 80 of the Trust's patients were in private beds, mostly out of the area. The trust began to use an intensive three day assessment period, and invested more in supporting people in their own homes in order to avoid the need for admission.
In 2018 it sold the Ida Darwin unit in Cambridge, and the Gloucester Centre in Peterborough to
Homes England
Homes England is the non-departmental public body that funds new affordable housing in England. It was founded on 1 January 2018 to replace the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA).
HCA in turn was established by the Housing and Regeneration Act 20 ...
for £20 million.
UnitingCare Partnership
The Trust was part of the
UnitingCare Partnership
UnitingCare Partnership was a limited liability partnership formed by Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust and Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Bid award
The partnership was selected as the preferred bidder by N ...
with
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a British public sector healthcare provider located in Cambridge, England. It was established on 4 November 1992 as Addenbrooke's National Health Service Trust, and authorised as an NHS fou ...
. Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
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 ...
announced in September 2014 that the partnership was the preferred bidder for a pioneering £800 million contract to deliver older people’s services in Cambridgeshire with effect from April 2015. The plan was for a single lead provider which will be responsible for older people’s healthcare services and adult community health services, ensuring that care is more joined up than it has been, with a focus on improving the patient experience. In April 2015 the trust took on 1,360 staff formerly employed by
Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust following the success of the Partnership's bid.
In an article in National Health Executive magazine on 15 September 2016, CPFT CEO Aidan Thomas is reported to have told the Public Accounts Committee: "We bid as low as we thought we could reasonably do," ...."There was pressure in the system at the time to get the whole thing going," he said. "There was a need for the economy to deal with its financial problems and this contract, if it had been allowed to work, should have dealt with some of that."
Services
The Trust's services cover three main areas:
* Older people's and adult community services
* Adult and specialist mental health
* Children, young people and families
The Trust supports around 100,000 people each year and employs more than 4,000 staff. Its largest bases are at the
Cavell Centre
The Edith Cavell Campus is a National Health Service healthcare campus in the city of Peterborough in the United Kingdom.
The campus, situated on the site of the former Edith Cavell Hospital, was opened in 2010 and comprises the following health ...
,
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 ...
, and
Fulbourn Hospital, but its staff are based in over 90 locations.
The trust provides physical health checks and mental health therapy at Clare Lodge in Peterborough, an all-female welfare-only secure home - the UK's only children's home of its type.
See also
*
Healthcare in Cambridgeshire
Healthcare in Cambridgeshire was the responsibility of NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group until July 2022. This was one of the largest in the United Kingdom.
History
From 1947 to 1965, NHS services in Cambridgeshi ...
References
External links
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