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Sirona Care and Health

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Sirona Care & Health is a Community Interest Company based in Bath, Somerset which provides publicly funded health and social care services. It runs Paulton Memorial Hospital.

It was established in October 2011 under the provisions of the Companies (Audit, Investigations and Community Enterprise) Act 2004 as part of the Transforming Community Services initiative. About 1700 staff were then transferred into the company from the NHS and Bath and North East Somerset Council.

In 2013 Sirona won a contract for specialist healthcare services for people with learning difficulties in South Gloucestershire which resulted in the transfer of 50 people from Bristol Community Health. In April 2014 the company got another contract to provide other adult community healthcare services in South Gloucestershire and 450 people transferred in from North Bristol NHS Trust. It won a contract to provide children's community services in Bristol and South Gloucestershire in October 2015 in conjunction with Bristol Community Health and Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust.

Apprenticeships have been offered by the company in various areas connected with social care.

In November 2016 Sirona lost a bid for a £700m seven-year contract to run health services in Bath and North East Somerset to Virgin Care. The contract will involve coordinating more than 200 health and social care services. Many of Sirona's staff will transfer to Virgin Care under the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) (TUPE) regulations.

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Sirona Care & Health Wikipedia


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