Shaping our future

Proposals for the future organisational arrangements for community health services in Rotherham.

This section describes our proposals to change which organisations are responsible for providing community health services for the people of Rotherham.

Community health services in Rotherham include:

some GP practices - the Gate Surgery, Canklow Surgery and Rosehill Medical Centre
staying healthy services including smoking cessation
children's services including health visitors, school nurses, community children‟s nurses and services for children with mental health problems
planned care and clinic services, including those provided at the Rotherham Community Health Centre
services to people with long-term conditions including district nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists
primary care mental health services which are provided in GP practices
services for people with learning disabilities
specialist palliative care and end of life care services

These services are very important to people who need to access them.

Our proposals are about which organisation is best placed to ensure the provision of high quality services.

The proposed change intends to strengthen current community health services and integrate these more closely with other local health and care services.

Rotherham's NHS is among the best in the country:

We have high quality primary care, community health services and hospitals,
We have secured good performance ratings for several successive years
Public and patient feedback is positive
Our financial position is sound
The relationships within the health community are good

We therefore have a very positive platform upon which to build.

NHS Rotherham's strategy Better Health, Better Lives - Adding Quality and Value describes our goal and vision for health and health services. Better Community Services sets out our plans for community health services.

The proposals for the future organisational arrangements for community services have been developed during the past 9 months.

We know that, for some services, staff and other interested people and organisations may want to make proposals that are different from those presented here.

The consultation has now closed and all comments have been presented to the NHS Rotherham Board and a final decision has been reached.

Read the proposals in full (PDF)