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<p>NHS Improvement is currently running a competitive process to select a National
Health Service organisation to acquire Liverpool Community Health services. They aim
to announce the preferred provider in October 2017 and – subject to approval by NHS
Improvement of a business case – hope to transfer services to the new provider on
1 April 2018.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Improvement agreed a process of staff engagement with
Liverpool Community Health Staff Side representatives. This included prospective providers
presenting their proposals to Liverpool Community Health staff followed by the opportunity
for Liverpool Community Health staff to ask questions. Staff were then invited to
complete a feedback form giving their views on their preferred provider. This information
will be available to the NHS Improvement Evaluation Panel but is not part of the Panel’s
formal scoring and ranking of the proposals.</p><p> </p><p>Alder Hey has appointed
to only one interim role since the commencement of the management contract on 1 May,
a senior communications advisor. This role was to cover a gap in capacity following
the departure of the previous Director of Communications, so was not a post created
by Alder Hey. As part of the management contract, senior roles at Liverpool Community
Health have been taken on by the Alder Hey Executive Team. However, this was not possible
for the Communications post, as the job holder as at 1 May was about to leave the
organisation.</p>
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