Community health services

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS), is the primary community healthcare provider in Lincolnshire delivering community-based services aimed at supporting people to manage their own health at home and reducing the need for people to go into hospital.

LCHS cares for patients across the whole of Lincolnshire, serving one of the largest geographic areas in England.  The Trust operates from four community hospitals – County Hospital, Louth; John Coupland Hospital in Gainsborough; Johnson Community Hospital in Spalding and Skegness Hospital. We also deliver care within the Butterfly Hospice in Boston. More information is available here Community Hospitals :: Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust.

Key achievements

  • Together with NHS Property Services, LCHS has invested £3.5 million into John Coupland Hospital to improve the site. A new inpatient ward has been co-designed with the ward team to ensure it meets the needs of staff and patients alike, now and for the future.
  • The trust were successful in their bid for the £53 million Greater Lincolnshire Sexual Health Services, with the support from ULHT and ICB colleagues. An extensive re-model was undertaken on the existing service and a new service in North and North East Lincolnshire will now be delivered by LCHS. More information can be found here Lincolnshire Sexual Health.
  • LCHS UTCs saw almost 178,000 patients last year. 92.3% were seen and treated within four hours. On average, at least 90% of these patients were kept away from Emergency Departments. More information about the range of Urgent Care Service available can be found here Urgent Care Services :: Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust.
  • Initial triage performance within the UTCs averaged at close to 89% of patients being seen within the 15-minute window, this significantly outperforms the national average of 53%.
  • We have worked towards a Group with ULHT and established Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group.
  • We worked with partners to pilot a Discharge Medicines Service across Lincolnshire.
  • We started a pilot for system-wide specialist palliative/end of life pharmacist in conjunction with system partners.
  • We worked with partners on pharmacy input into virtual wards and the Discharge to Assess Service.

Our partners include: