Notts health and social care organisation appoints administrators
Mansfield-based Central Nottinghamshire Clinical Services (CNCS) has slipped into administration after losing key accounts.
The not-for-profit organisation which provides health and social care for the local community on behalf of the NHS and local government, appointed Chris Stirland and John Lowe, partners at FRP Advisory, after it ceased trading following a termination of its services with the Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) of East Leicestershire & Rutland, West Leicestershire, Leicester City, Newark & Sherwood and Mansfield & Ashfield.
CNCS was facing unsustainable pressure on its cashflow which, says FRP Advisory, without a radical change in the funding arrangements in place (with its core CCGs) undermined the its ability to deliver the level of services required under its various agreements across the NHS.
The company has been working closely with its advisors and the relevant CCGs to ensure that continuity was maintained through the transfer of service delivery to other experienced care taker providers. By Friday 13 May 2016, the company’s agreements with its CCGs had been terminated and new agreements had been completed between the CCGs and a variety of new providers.
CNCS operated with around 190 sessional GPs and 151 healthcare workers ranging from primary care doctors, nurses and care home support staff. The vast majority of those workers have been taken over by the new providers following the transfer of CNCS’ services to them. It is anticipated that the remaining staff based at its Mansfield headquarters will be made redundant.
Chris Stirland, joint administrator and partner at FRP Advisory, said: “Prior to administration CNCS had faced acute financial pressure and the Company worked with care commissioners to ensure strong alternative providers were in place to provide a continuity of service for the public, with access to care for patients at the heart of that process.
“As administrators our priority remains in assisting all those involved with the now completed handover of services with patient care remaining the paramount driver of that process. We shall consult with the company’s remaining staff as we seek to realise assets in the interest of creditors.”
