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Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust is a provider of community services to a population of about 882,000 in Norfolk. It was established under the Transforming Community Services initiative. It comprises the community services previously run by Norfolk Primary Care Trust. It employs 2,250 full-time equivalent members of staff.
The charity was founded in 1992 by James Partridge OBE, who sustained severe burns in a car fire when he was 18 years old. [1] He wrote about the experience in a book, Changing Faces, in the late 1980s, and was persuaded to set up the charity after speaking about it with doctors from University College Hospital in London.
From 1947 to 1965, NHS services in Norfolk were managed by the East Anglian regional hospital boards. In 1974 the boards were abolished and replaced by regional health authorities. Norfolk came under the East Anglian RHA. There was a Norfolk Area Health Authority from 1974 until 1982.
The Norfolk and Suffolk NHS foundation trust closed 35 beds, 8 permanently, in the months up to August 2018 due to staff shortages. [9] The Care Quality Commission has rated Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust inadequate four times up to April 2022. They noted patients self harmed or attempt suicide while waiting for care.
The Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital was built under the Private Finance Initiative (PFI), and opened in late 2001: it has 1237 acute beds and offers a wide range of NHS acute health services plus private patient facilities. It is one of the largest hospitals in the United Kingdom in terms of in-patient capacity.
The trust was first established on 8 February 1994 as the Norfolk and Norwich Health Care NHS Trust and authorised as the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust on 1 May 2008. In 2000 the Government announced that a joint venture bid with the University of East Anglia to have a medical school and university hospital in ...
The Trust 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 2511 full-time equivalent staff and a sickness absence rate of 3.25%. 65% of staff recommend it as a place for treatment and 64% recommended it as a place to work.
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 ...