Inclusion Healthcare

Inclusion Healthcare Social Enterprise CIC Ltd is a Community Interest Company based in Leicester which provides publicly funded health and social care services at two clinics in the city for 900 homeless and vulnerable people.

It was established in September 2010 as part of the Transforming Community Services initiative under the provisions of the Companies (Audit, Investigations and Community Enterprise) Act 2004. A team of 12, who formerly worked for Leicester City Primary Care Trust as Leicester Homeless Healthcare, formed the core of the new organisation.[1] After a year staff employed by the organisation become shareholders, which allows them to make representations at the annual general meeting and be involved in the selection of directors and non-executive directors.[2]

Francis Maude praised the organisation at a speech in December 2014 about the Better Care Fund saying the company could provide care more cheaply and simply than the NHS. He related how Inclusion had helped a homeless man with leg ulcers who was refusing to go into hospital because he could not afford to put his dog in kennels while he was there by writing "a cheque for £200 or whatever it cost to have the dog vaccinated and put into kennels".[3] According to Maude, the firm say "actually if we had still been in the NHS we could never have done that without endless process and bureaucracy and auditing and which budget does it come out of, and how do we account for it, and it would never have happened”.[4]

Following a visit from the Care Quality Commission (CQC) in late 2014, the report published in February 2015, awarded Inclusion Health Care an overall "Outstanding" summary. Full report http://www.cqc.org.uk/location/1-572021031 . The Leicester Mercury reported http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/Outstanding-rating-GPs-helping-homeless/story-25981001-detail/story.html

References

Care Quality Commission http://www.cqc.org.uk/location/1-572021031

  1. ↑ "Case Study: Inclusion Healthcare". Third Sector. 3 January 2012. Retrieved 23 December 2014.
  2. ↑ "Can mutuals become mainstream in the public sector?". Personnel Today. 17 November 2011. Retrieved 23 December 2014.
  3. ↑ "Lessons from the UK: why public servants need space to fail". The Mandarin. 18 December 2014. Retrieved 23 December 2014.
  4. ↑ "Tory Francis Maude says NHS reforms hinge on inclusion of private firms". Guardian. 22 December 2014. Retrieved 23 December 2014.

External Links

Company website