WILTSHIRE Children’s Community Services, run by Virgin Care, has completed its move to four new, purpose-designed hubs.

The community hubs are located in Chippenham, Trowbridge, Salisbury and Tidworth. The services have moved from premises inherited when the contract began in April last year.

The company says the relocation is a milestone in its five-year plan to deliver improvements in patient care. During the moves, service delivery remained unaffected.

The development of community hubs as the focus for services across the county delivers on the promises set out by Virgin Care and NHS Wiltshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) for a single local Wiltshire service dedicated to children and their families based in the county.

Val Scrase, head of operations for Wiltshire Children’s Community Services, said: “The estates move forms a central transformation programme that is critical for the delivery of the contract.

“It not only brings care closer to people’s homes – some of the services have historically been provided from outside of the boundaries of Wiltshire – but also improves the working environment for our colleagues, replacing ageing buildings and infrastructure with brand new, purpose-designed spaces.”

Ted Wilson, community and joint commissioning director of NHS Wiltshire CCG, said: “We are pleased the move to the four community hubs in Wiltshire will enable children’s community health staff to provide co-ordinated, person-centred care, designed around the individual needs of the children and to support them when they need help.”

Virgin Care says patient-centred care will be organised and co-ordinated at the new community hubs, while service delivery will be either in universal settings such as schools, children’s centres, families’ own homes or Virgin Care’s dedicated clinical space.

Colleagues outside of Wiltshire who were also delivering services to children and families have been relocated into the hubs to ensure they’re now based in Wiltshire.

Virgin Care started running Wiltshire Children’s Community Services in April 2016. For details for all services and their new location, please visit: http://wiltshirechildrensservices.co.uk/directory/.