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UnitingCare Partnership is a consortium of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust and Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust The partnership has been selected as the preferred bidder by Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group as Lead Provider of older people’s healthcare and adult community services, able to integrate services, with the intention providing more joined-up care for patients. This decision comes after a 15-month service design and procurement process and the partnership is expected to start delivering services on April 1, 2015. Commonly NHS contracts are just one or two years in length. This contract is different in that it is a five-year contract. Julian Huppert MP for Cambridge welcomed the news that the new combined services for elderly people will be run by the NHS. He said he wanted services to stay in the NHS, where the quality of health care is prioritised, as opposed to provision by private companies who have an obligation to generate a profit for their shareholders. The process of awarding the £800 million contract was criticised by campaigning group Stop the NHS Sell-Off, which is supported by (38 Degrees ) who said the process cost £1 million. The organisation plans to provide: * new neighbourhood teams to bring together community health, mental health, acute care and third sector providers into teams “built around general practices in local neighbourhoods”; * a new “OneCall” service: a 24/7 single point of coordination, provided by South Central Ambulance Service, which GPs or local clinicians can contact to arrange for urgent care for people most at risk of admission; and a 24/7 urgent care, community based rapid response service, called the joint emergency team, provided by Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust. The contract provides seven domains against which its outcomes will be judged: patient experience; safe care; quality care; prevention; urgent care; long term care; and end of life care. Within these there are 62 indicators. Eventually 15% of the contract value will depend on performance against these indicators. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「UnitingCare Partnership」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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