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<p>Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust briefed all members of the Somerset
Sustainability and Transformation Plan footprint (Somerset and Taunton Foundation
Trust, Somerset Partnership Foundation Trust, Somerset Clinical Comissioning Group
and Somerset County Council) about its plans to establish a wholly-owned company to
run its estates and other support services. As required by the National NHS Standard
Contract, the Trust sought and received permission from Somerset CCG, Dorset CCG and
NHS England Specialist Commissioning for some of the estates services previously delivered
by the Trust to be delivered by the new wholly-owned subsidiary.</p><p>NHS Improvement
has advised that following legal advice sought by the Trust, informal staff consultation
took place in October 2017 and that a further formal consultation took place in November
2017.</p><p>National Health Service organisations are responsible for deciding locally
the most appropriate structures they need to deliver services to their patients within
available resources.</p>
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