New physiotherapy and pain management service for all of northern Lincolnshire to begin in January
A new specialist physiotherapy and pain management service is to begin in northern Lincolnshire in January.
A £10.2m contract has been awarded to Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG), part of NHS Humber Health Partnership, jointly with Connect Health for pain management and musculoskeletal (MSK) services for the next four years. Around 21,000 people a year in northern Lincolnshire are impacted by musculoskeletal problems.
Hospital-based and community therapy teams will work with Connect Health, the UK’s largest independent community healthcare provider of MSK, pain management and mental health services, to care for people with MSK problems. The contract is worth £2.5m a year and will last for four years, though there is an option to extend it to 2029.
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"This new service will offer patients timely access to assessment, diagnosis and treatment," said Ant Rosevear, NHS Humber Heath Partnership's operations director for community, frailty and therapy care group. "Our clinical teams will work with patients, putting them at the centre of decision-making about their care so they feel empowered to manage their own conditions with expert support at the right time.
"By responding to individual needs, we’re aiming to remove the need for inconvenient and time-consuming outpatient appointments in hospital by delivering tailored care in community settings, closer to home."
NLAG currently runs a community MSK service in North Lincolnshire in partnership with Connect Health, Kirton Lindsey and Scotter Surgery and St Hugh’s Hospital, Grimsby. This is due to end in December. The NHS Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB), which commissions health services for the local population, was keen to introduce a single service covering all of northern Lincolnshire.
Connect Health's chief operating officer Paul Allan said it was excited to work with NLAG colleagues. "Blending our national expertise and infrastructure with the local knowledge, skills and capabilities of the trust and its people will deliver the commissioners’ aims and improve services for local people."