NCH&C and CCS set to merge as East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust
On 1 April 2025, Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust (NCH&C) and Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust (CCS) came together as a specialist community health and care group.
Following a review of our Strategic Business Case, NHS England has agreed we can proceed with developing the Full Business Case for merging our two organisations in April 2026.
The plan is for our new organisation to be called East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust.
Matthew Winn, Group Chief Executive Officer for CCS and NCH&C, said:
This is an exciting opportunity to make things better for our patients and our staff, whilst also making our services stronger and more resilient. NCH&C and CCS already have so much in common-our values, services that provide great care and support to people so they can lead their best and healthiest lives-but we can do even more together.
Demand and complexity of patient needs continue to increase, so having resilient specialist community health and care providers is essential. By coming together we will benefit from the combined skills, talents and infrastructure of both organisations. We will be able to deliver the radical approach required to improve health outcomes for local people.
Our full Case for Change document outlines all the reasons behind the two trusts coming together: