Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust

NHS Community services trust

Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust

Type| NHS trust
Established| 1 April 2010
Headquarters| St Ives, Cambridgeshire, England[1]
Staff| 2,055 (2018/19)[2]
Website| www.cambscommunityservices.nhs.uk

Cambridgeshire Community Services Trust is an NHS trust that was established as part of the programme called Transforming Community Services under which a number of community health NHS trusts were established when these services were separated from primary care trusts.

## Services

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It runs:

* Peterborough integrated sexual health services
* Cambridgeshire community sexual health and contraceptive services
* Luton drug services
* Ely musculo-skeletal services

In 2022 it won a £8.4 million contract to provide mental health support to 7,000 children in Norfolk and Waveney schools for three years, taking over from Ormiston Families. They also provide health visitors, school nurses and speech and language therapists in the area, and in Peterborough and Cambridge.[3]

## History

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The trust was established on 1 April 2010.[4]

It was part of two consortium bids for an £800m older people's service contract for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group, first as part of a consortium with Capita and private health firm Circle, and then with Optum, formerly UnitedHealth UK, when Capita opted to withdraw from the process.[5]

In April 2015 following the failure of these bids the trust transferred 1,360 staff to Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust and 115 to various other providers. It had, however, “won three multimillion pound contracts during 2014-15 to provide sexual health services in Norfolk and Suffolk, as well as the School Immunisation Programme across Cambridgeshire, Peterborough, Norfolk and Suffolk”.[6] Subsequently, the contract collapsed, after just eight months.

It was named by the Health Service Journal as the best community trust to work for in 2015. At that time it had 2864 full-time equivalent staff and a sickness absence rate of 4.89%. 83% of staff recommend it as a place for treatment and 73% recommended it as a place to work.[7]

In 2019 the Care Quality Commission rated the trust outstanding and said it provided “excellent care and treatment, particularly in its community sexual health services”.[8]

## See also

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* Healthcare in Cambridgeshire
* List of NHS trusts

## References

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1. ^ "Contact/Find Us". Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
2. ^ "Annual Report 2018/19" (PDF). Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
3. ^ "New £8.4m contract to secure mental health support in schools". Eastern Daily Press. 26 August 2022. Retrieved 11 November 2022.
4. ^ "The Cambridgeshire Community Services National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 2010". legislation.gov.uk. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
5. ^ "Cambridgeshire trust could see workforce shrink 40 per cent". Health Service Journal. 10 October 2014. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
6. ^ "Community service trust completes 1,600 staff transfer". Health Service Journal. 24 April 2015. Retrieved 10 May 2015.
7. ^ "HSJ reveals the best places to work in 2015". Health Service Journal. 7 July 2015. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
8. ^ "'Outstanding' rating for trust in troubled health economy". Health Service Journal. 30 August 2019. Retrieved 5 October 2019.

## External links

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* Official website
* Care Quality Commission inspection reports

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