Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
| Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust | |
|---|---|
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| Type | NHS trust |
| Established | 1 November 2010 |
| Headquarters | 15 Marylebone Road London NW1 5JD[1] |
| Chair | Tom Kibasi |
| Chief executive | James Benson |
| Staff | 5,000+ |
| Website | clch |
Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust is a NHS trust which provides community health services to a number of London boroughs, as well as Hertfordshire.
History
[edit]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 initiative. This combined organisation was established as an NHS trust on 1 November 2010.[2] The organisation merged with Barnet Community Services on 1 April 2011.
It has a back-office support contract with Capita for IT, estates and facilities management services.[3]
It ran the Soho Square and Milne House general practices in Westminster but abandoned the loss-making contracts in July 2014.[4]
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.[5]
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 [6]
Services
[edit]It runs an 18-bed ‘intermediate care’ ward at Charing Cross Hospital in partnership with Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.[7]
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, which provides mental health services there.[8]
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.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ "Contact us". Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust. Retrieved 25 October 2019.
- ^ "The Central London Community Healthcare National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 2010". legislation.gov.uk. Retrieved 25 October 2019.
- ^ "Capita wins £80m contract with London community trust". Health Investor. 13 May 2015. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
- ^ "NHS trust pulls plug on two GP practices after £500,000 losses". GP Online. 9 July 2014. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
- ^ "HSJ reveals the best places to work in 2015". Health Service Journal. 7 July 2015. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
- ^ "Teaching hospital loses community contracts". Health Service Journal. 5 October 2017. Retrieved 23 December 2017.
- ^ "Major west London hospital trust misses A&E target waiting times for 13th week". Get West london. 6 January 2015. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
- ^ "St Charles' Hospital". Lost Hospitals of London. 26 December 2015. Retrieved 11 January 2016.
- ^ "Community trust becomes first to adopt new technology". Building Better Healthcare. 2 August 2022. Retrieved 29 September 2022.