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Creating our new Trust

Benefiting our patients, staff and communities

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We are East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust.
We provide community health care across Bedfordshire, Cambridge, Luton, Milton, Keynes, Peterbrra, Norfolk, Wavey and Suffolk.
We were created by bringing together two outstanding NHS trusts.
Together, we will be a stronger and better connected organization, able to do even more for our patients and service users.
Our larger size makes us more efficient and resilient, but we still have local healthcare at our heart. We know the best place to support people with their health is in their local community.
Whether that's at home, a GP surgery, a local community space, or one of our inpatient units,
we're guided by our values of integrity, compassion, inclusion, and ambition in every conversation and every visit.
This means creating services that are caring, safe, and inclusive for everyone. A culture that's mirrored in our workplace, too.
From health visits to hospice care, school nursing to stroke rehabilitation, dentistry to dieticians.
We're there for our patients every single day at some of life's most important moments.
Our new organization takes the best of our history, our incredible staff, our award-winning services, and our supportive culture, and we have combined them to deliver the highest quality NHS care.
Together, we can do more for the people and communities we serve. We will be more connected, more sustainable, and ready for the future.
East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust. Getting better together.

Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust and Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust joined together to become a new unified Trust.

On 1 April 2026, East of England Community Health and Care NHS was formed.

Merging organisations was a deliberate and considered decision.

We recognised that we could do more together than we could separately. We were not required to change. We were not forced by external pressures.

By removing organisational barriers and using our collective expertise we can create greater opportunities for our patients, staff and communities.

Explore our case studies

We have collated a series of case studies highlighting the benefits of integration. These span across our clinical and support services.

Latest case studies

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Supporting a whole person approach to care

Our whole-person approach has vastly improved the experience of children, young people and their families in our communities. Learn about Mallory's experience with our Speech and Language Therapy Team.

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Creating a more sustainable home for sexual health services

The new Trust has created opportunities to strengthen our services for the future. Our Trust can now relocate services into more local Trust-owned clinical sites. In early 2026, we moved our Norwich sexual health service into Rowan House, Colman Hospital.

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Using innovative technology for wound care assessments

Integrating our services has supported digital innovation across the Trust. We are exploring and supporting innovative solutions that improve patient care and staff experience. An example is Minuteful for Wound by Healthy.io.

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Healthcare is changing

Demand for services continues to grow. People's needs are becoming more complex. Organisations must work closer together than ever before.

We know patients and communities benefit from a more integrated approach to care. When we remove the organisational boundaries, patients receive seamless and more coordinated care. This was at the root of our decision to come together as one Trust.

The creation of our new Trust unlocked opportunities to develop a common vision, a unified culture and a place people choose to work.

While some benefits will come over time, we have been able to unlock some of the benefits straight away.

Community nurse closing a gate behind them as they approach a home.
Clinician helping older woman to stand up from armchair
Dentists working on a patient
Clinician playing with Down Syndrome child and smiling
iCaSH nurse speaking to service user and smiling
Support staff handing over a laptop he fixed.

Benefits of integration

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Integrating services

Connecting services around patient and service user needs.

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Improving access to services

Helping local communities to get the right support at the right time.

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Sharing skills and expertise

Bringing together knowledge, skills and experience from across our Trust.

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Staff experience

Creating opportunities for greater collaboration, shared learning and professional support.

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Resilience and sustainability

Strengthening our services for the future.

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Greater influence

Strengthening our our voice within the wider health and care system and actively shaping the future of community healthcare.

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Looking ahead

Creating our new Trust has given us strong foundations, but our work is far from complete!

In the coming years, we will continue to build on the benefits already realised for our patients, staff and communities.

We will create more opportunities to:

  • make our care more joined up
  • improve access to services
  • embrace innovation and technology
  • develop our people
  • strengthen the partnerships that help us to deliver outstanding care

We will continue to bring together our expertise, experience and ambition. This enables us to respond to changing health needs, tackle inequalities and ensure our services evolve and improve. The progress we have made so far gives us confidence that we can achieve even more together in the years ahead.

Most importantly, we will remain focused on what matters most: delivering high-quality care, supporting our staff and improving the health and wellbeing of the communities we serve.

Together we build on the strengths of both organisations. We are creating services that are connected, more resilient and better equipped to meet the needs of today and tomorrow.

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