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Closer To Home

NHS Cumbria Primary Care Trust

Welcome to Closer to Home

Closer to home is our opportunity to create world-class health care for Cumbria and for you.

This website has all you need to know about Closer to home, what it means for you and your family and - most importantly - how you can get involved.

Get involved

This is your health service and we want your views on how it should be shaped and delivered.

Although the formal consultation in the North of the County has finished and the South will not start until Autumn 2008, you can always have you say and get involved.
Find out how...

Locality teams and care streams:

Proposals for future community health services will be developed by locality teams in each of the six districts - see the localities page to find out more.

Locality teams will develop services in line with a County-wide framework of standards developed by five care stream boards - see the care stream page to find out more.

What is Closer to Home?

Closer to Home is a unique chance for local people and the NHS in Cumbria to work together to create health services to be proud of.

We want to improve the health and well-being of the people of Cumbria by providing access to high-quality care and treatment in the most appropriate place.

Our vision is for people who need health care to get the best possible treatment and support as close as possible to their own homes. When people do need specialist care, hospitals would offer faster access to first-class services.

We can only do this by making changes to the way care is delivered both in hospital and in the community and by making sure that these improvements make the best of our staff, equipment and money.

Given the scale of the changes, we are undertaking the planning and consultation for the changes in two parts:

  • in the North of Cumbria – that’s Allerdale, Carlisle, Copeland and Eden districts – we published our initial proposals in September 2007. The consultation on these finished in February. Find out what you told us and how our plans have changed...
  • in the South of Cumbria – that’s Barrow and South Lakeland districts – we are currently developing our proposals with a view to consulting on these in Autumn 2008. Find out more...