North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust launched

The former North Cumbria University hospitals NHS Trust and the former Cumbria Primary Care NHS trust have merged.

The new trust which they have created is called the North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust (NCIC)

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Two Cumbrian NHS health trusts merged on 1 October 2019 to provide more joined-up care for patients across community and hospital services.

Staff at North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust and Cumbria Partnership NHS Foundation Trust have been working closely together for some time leading up to the formal merger.

Professor Stephen Eames CBE, the chief executive of the new organisation, said of the merger

“I would like to thank all of our 6,500 members of staff who have all worked together so collaboratively to get to this point.

“The new organisation includes the words ‘integrated care’ in the title because we want to set it apart from what has gone before with the Trust working side-by-side with partners and the wider community to join up health and care for our patients as well as streamlining processes for staff. We also want NCIC to become more embedded in local communities with the purpose of advancing wellbeing tailored to local area challenges and opportunities.

“In addition, as a major employer in Cumbria we need to work better together with our partners to offer better career opportunities to young people and buck the trend of young people leaving the county. We also need to play our part in tackling climate change through sustainable plans, spending more of our money locally and supporting the economy here in Cumbria to thrive. We have a real opportunity to do that as NCIC.”