UnitingCare Partnership was a limited liability partnership formed by Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust and Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust The partnership was selected as the preferred bidder by NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group as Lead Provider of older people's healthcare and adult community services, able to integrate services, with the intention providing more joined-up care for patients.
[2] Julian Huppert, MP for Cambridge, welcomed the news that the new combined services for elderly people will be run by the NHS.
He said he wanted services to stay in the NHS, where the quality of health care is prioritised, as opposed to provision by private companies who have an obligation to generate a profit for their shareholders.
[5] On 3 December 2015 UnitingCare Partnership and Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group released a joint statement explaining that the contract was being terminated because they agreed it was no longer financially sustainable.
[6] The National Audit Office undertook an investigation into the collapse of the contract, which was published in July 2016.