PROFILE

Caring for our community

Nimbuscare Local care for local people. www.nimbuscare.co.uk @Nimbuscare1 nimbuscare-limited Nimbuscare As one of the largest 'at scale' providers of primary care in the North of England, Nimbuscare offers services to around 250,000 people across the York area. A relatively young but rapidly growing not-for-profit organisation, it is formed from 11 GP practices with a passion for delivering high quality local care for local people. Its member practices work collaboratively to deliver new, innovative and sustainable health care services at scale. This approach allows them to share resources, expertise and services, and work as one single entity to deliver services when it makes sense to do so at a city-wide scale. As providers of community based care, Nimbuscare’s member practices’ shared goal is to work together across the health and care system to improve the health, wellbeing and experience of the population. In October 2020, Nimbuscare turned a disused car park at Askham Bar in York into the York Vaccination Centre and launched a mass flu vaccination programme for local patients. Just weeks later, when the Covid-19 vaccination programme began, the Askham Bar site became one of the first NHS National Covid-19 Vaccination Centres in England and has since administered almost 600,000 Covid jabs. However, vaccinations are just one of the many healthcare services that Nimbuscare provides. A further example of innovative practice is its collaboration, in October 2021, with York and Scarborough Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and local NHS commissioners to develop a clinic for children under 11 years with respiratory conditions with the aim of preventing them from having to go to hospital unnecessarily. Known as the Children’s Ambulatory Treatment Hub (CAT Hub), the service is delivered from Nimbuscare’s Askham Bar site. Nimbuscare has also been working to meet the health and care needs of our asylum seeker population, as well as setting up an Improving Access Service to offer patients who work during the week the ability to access GP appointments at weekends and in the evenings. Through its Covid Recovery Hub, Nimbuscare is working with partner organisations to offer a wide range of services aimed at helping both individual patients and the NHS to recover from the impact of Covid-19. Keen to invest back into the communities that it serves, Nimbuscare recently established a Community Fund to award grants to projects. The theme will change annually, but this year the focus is on the mental health and emotional wellbeing of local people.