Gloucestershire Care Services NHS Trust was a community health trust established in 2012 under the Transforming Community Services programme to run community services in Gloucestershire after proposals to set up a community interest company, Gloucester Care Services, were abandoned.[1] The trust was superseded by Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust in 2019.
The organisation provided a range of in-patient and out-patient services to a population of about 600,000, including nursing, physiotherapy, re-ablement and adult social care services. It adopted Medworxx Patient Flow Solution to optimise patient flow and discharge.[2]
Katie Norton, who was working for Deloitte but had been chief executive at Neath Port Talbot Health Board and North Somerset Primary Care Trust, was appointed Chief Executive in 2016. [3]
Contraceptive services were provided at St Paul's Wing of Cheltenham General Hospital, while genito-urinary medicine was delivered at Benhall Clinic. In 2015, the trust set up an integrated service in a new purpose-built clinic.[4]
Anne Frances MacCallum, the trust's head of specialist services, was awarded the British Empire Medal for services to nursing in the Queen's Birthday Honours 2015.[5]
In September 2017 the trust announced plans to merge with 2gether NHS Foundation Trust, which also covers Herefordshire.[6] The merger was completed in October 2019 to form Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust.[7]