Health contracts signed and sealed

HEALTH chiefs have chosen which organisations will provide community-based services across the borough.

Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust will retain the majority of the contracts including services such as integrated nursing teams, therapy services, specialist nursing and enhanced intermediate care.

The trust will also become the lead provider of all end-of-life care. Continence services will be provided by consultant-led Lancaster House Consulting, Diagnostics & Surgical Ltd, which is a local, private provider and respiratory care will come from Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, which also runs the Royal Oldham Hospital.

Dr Ian Wilkinson, chief clinical officer for Oldham Clinical Commissioning Group, said: “The successful reprocurement of our community services contracts is a key milestone for us, and one which we’re proud to have achieved in a relatively short space of time.

“This is a very real and tangible development which will help bring to life some of the plans we’ve been talking about in our governing body meetings for several months.”