Heartbeat: Milestone merger becomes reality as Your Health Partnership joins Trust

April 16, 2020

1 April marks a special date in our Trust as it’s when we officially welcome Your Health Partnership (YHP) to our organisation. Working as an additional directorate, it marks the start of a new phase for both our organisation and Your Health Partnership.

Speaking to Heartbeat, Dr Simon Mitchell, Co-Executive Partner at YHP, said: “This is an exciting time for us. We have an incredible team and culture. We’re excited about working with, and as part of, the wider organisation.

“We have created a successful business and we thrive on innovation. Working together, we will be able to help the most vulnerable in our society, the housebound, outpatients, and so many more people. Jointly we will be able to build resilience and bring greater improvements in healthcare to our local communities.”

Primary Care Liaison Manager, Dottie Tipton, will be working ever closer with YHP as of 1 April. She told us: “YHP joining our Trust is a truly special moment. It is a testament to their team, the rapidly scaling business they have created and their passion.”

So, what will the move look like in reality? YHP partners and managers will continue to oversee the running of the practices within the directorate, whilst our Trust will have responsibility for delivering the contracts that the service currently holds. The YHP run Carters Green Medical Centre will move to the new

£6 million development which is being built at our Sandwell Hospital site, Toby Lewis, Chief Executive said: “Whilst this is currently a challenging time for everyone with COVID-19 we can’t overlook YHP joining our Trust.

We have worked together to get this merger just right, and we are pleased to welcome everyone into our organisation. We share a common vision and that is a solid basis for any new relationship. I am confident we will go from strength to strength together.”