Community services in Lambeth and Southwark to merge with Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation Trust

NHS Lambeth and NHS Southwark have agreed to integrate with Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust to become part of King’s Health Partners.

The three organisations will now work together to engage with patients, stakeholders and the public before formal integration takes place in April 2011.

Community health involves services such as district nursing, health visiting, reproductive and sexual health, school nursing, specialist child health, elderly care and therapies such as physiotherapy and occupational therapy. These services are provided in GP surgeries, health centres, schools, children’s centres, patient’s homes and residential and nursing homes.