News
Our Urgent Community Response team is keeping patients safe at home over the festive season
Our UCR team was featured on Channel 5 News, highlighting how we help people stay well at home and reduce A&E visits during the festive season
Read Our Urgent Community Response team is keeping patients safe at home over the festive season…New Group Board announced
Appointments made to Group Board
Read New Group Board announced…Join us for a festive carol service at Norwich Community Hospital
Wednesday 18 December at 4pm, in the Mulberry Gardens at Norwich Community Hospital (NCH).
Read Join us for a festive carol service at Norwich Community Hospital…Willow Therapy Unit takes significant step towards completion
Final PODs delivered to Norwich Community Hospital site on landmark day for new therapy unit
Read Willow Therapy Unit takes significant step towards completion…Community Health and Care Day 2024
On Friday 01 November, NCH&C will be marking Community Health & Care Day: an annual celebration of community health and care, and an opportunity to raise awareness of what we do.
Read Community Health and Care Day 2024…Local opticians bring Christmas cheer to Pine Cottage at Colman Hospital
Coleman Opticians Hearing & Vision Centre in Norwich is already spreading festive cheer by sponsoring a Christmas tree for Pine Cottage at the Colman Hospital.
Read Local opticians bring Christmas cheer to Pine Cottage at Colman Hospital…Help build a health service fit for the future
A once in a generation opportunity to make the NHS fit for the future
Read Help build a health service fit for the future…Virtual Ward service celebrates a year of keeping patients well at home
Innovative service allows patients to receive hospital-level monitoring and treatment at home, preventing avoidable hospital admissions
Read Virtual Ward service celebrates a year of keeping patients well at home…Pharmacy Technician Day 2024
Highlighting the important role Pharmacy Technicians play in helping patients to make the most of their medicine
Read Pharmacy Technician Day 2024…Unscheduled Care Coordination Hub Celebrates One Year
Service marks a year of helping to ensure patients receive timely and appropriate care
Read Unscheduled Care Coordination Hub Celebrates One Year…Appointments made to CCS and NCH&C joint Chair and Group CEO roles
Lynda Thomas and Matthew Winn have been appointed to lead the newly formed community health and care group
Read Appointments made to CCS and NCH&C joint Chair and Group CEO roles…The West Norfolk Pulmonary Rehabilitation Service joins NCH&C
The West Norfolk Pulmonary Rehabilitation Service, previously provided by BOC Healthcare, transferred to Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust (NCH&C).
Read The West Norfolk Pulmonary Rehabilitation Service joins NCH&C…Stop smoking for Stoptober and you’re five times more likely to quit for good
Stoptober is back, calling on smokers in England to join the 2.5 million others who have made a quit attempt with the campaign previously
Read Stop smoking for Stoptober and you’re five times more likely to quit for good…NCH&C has been awarded a Silver Defence Employer Recognition Award
Through the hard work of Andrew Sumpner and the Armed Force Aware Group we have been awarded a Silver Defence Employer Recognition Award.
Read NCH&C has been awarded a Silver Defence Employer Recognition Award…Read our Annual Summary 2023-24
Read our Annual Summary for a selection of highlights from our year and an outline of what we hope to achieve in 2024-25
Read Read our Annual Summary 2023-24…Miniature donkeys bring joy to patients and NHS staff at NCH&C
Patients, families and NCH&C staff at Caroline House, Ogden Court and the Priscilla Bacon Hospice were treated to a heartwarming visit from two miniature donkeys
Read Miniature donkeys bring joy to patients and NHS staff at NCH&C…Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust Annual General Meeting 2024
Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust is pleased to invite you to our Annual General Meeting 2024
Read Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust Annual General Meeting 2024…Caroline House’s Summer Fayre a Success, Raising £1,000 for NCH&C Charitable Fund
Successful Summer Fayre at Caroline House brought together the entire community for a day of fun
Read Caroline House’s Summer Fayre a Success, Raising £1,000 for NCH&C Charitable Fund…Gardens in bloom across NCH&C
Gardens at hospitals and health centres across NCH&C are fully in bloom, offering a serene and therapeutic space for patients, staff, and visitors
Read Gardens in bloom across NCH&C…Could you volunteer your time to support NCH&C?
We’re looking for volunteers who can offer their time to support us
Read Could you volunteer your time to support NCH&C?…Community health services strengthened as trusts come together
Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust and Cambridgeshire Community Services announce plans to come together
Read Community health services strengthened as trusts come together…NCH&C launches new Patient Advisory Group to improve patient & carer experience
Read NCH&C launches new Patient Advisory Group to improve patient & carer experience…
Patients and Staff celebrate 76 years of the NHS
Patients and staff at Norwich Community Hospital & Birch Unit at Colman Hospital celebrated 76 years of the NHS with a tea party on Friday 5 July.
Read Patients and Staff celebrate 76 years of the NHS…Celebrating Thomas-A Budding Author at the Children's & Young Person Centre
We are thrilled to share a particularly heart-warming story of one of our young users, Thomas has written and published his very own book.
Read Celebrating Thomas-A Budding Author at the Children's & Young Person Centre…Celebrating 100 years of North Walsham Hospital
North Walsham War Memorial Hospital, part of Norfolk Community Health & Care NHS Trust (NCH&C), celebrated its centenary with a special garden party last week.
Read Celebrating 100 years of North Walsham Hospital…Get protected before 30 June 2024
Eligible people who haven’t yet had their top-up to come forward and get protected before 30 June 2024
Read Get protected before 30 June 2024…NCH&C welcomes its first refugee volunteer, Mirabel
NCH&C welcomes Mirabel as a Ward Support Volunteer
Read NCH&C welcomes its first refugee volunteer, Mirabel…NCH&C's brand new podcast
A chance to listen to the experiences of staff at NCH&C
Read NCH&C's brand new podcast…NCH&C Receives Bronze Award Recognising Quality of Work Experience
Accreditation from NHS England recognises the quality of NCH&C's work experience placements
Read NCH&C Receives Bronze Award Recognising Quality of Work Experience…Willow Therapy Unit passes significant milestone with full planning permission
New therapy-led unit at Norwich Community Hospital gets planning green light
Read Willow Therapy Unit passes significant milestone with full planning permission…Celebrating International Nurses’ Day at NCH&C
On Sunday 12 May we celebrate the amazing contribution nurses make to our society
Read Celebrating International Nurses’ Day at NCH&C…Dying Matters Week: Events at Priscilla Bacon Lodge May 2024
6 - 12 May 2024 is Dying Matters Week, organised by the charity Hospice UK
Read Dying Matters Week: Events at Priscilla Bacon Lodge May 2024…April edition of NCH&C's patient newsletter, The Voice, now live
The April edition of The Voice patient experience newsletter is now live
Read April edition of NCH&C's patient newsletter, The Voice, now live…Former PBL building at Colman Hospital in Norwich reopened as Birch Unit
Former Priscilla Bacon Lodge building at Colman Hospital in Norwich renamed Birch Unit and reopened for patients
Read Former PBL building at Colman Hospital in Norwich reopened as Birch Unit…NHS Community Virtual Ward Celebrates 500th Patient Admission
Innovative service see treats 500th patient since launching in September 2023
Read NHS Community Virtual Ward Celebrates 500th Patient Admission…Dr Caroline Kavanagh appointed as joint Medical Director
Announcing the appointment of Dr Caroline Kavanagh as joint Medical Director
Read Dr Caroline Kavanagh appointed as joint Medical Director…Neurodiversity Celebration Week: Striving for a Neuro-inclusive Health Service
Expert advice for ways healthcare workers can better support neurodivergent people
Read Neurodiversity Celebration Week: Striving for a Neuro-inclusive Health Service…Nutrition & Hydration Week: Introducing NCH&C's Dietetics Service
In Nutrition & Hydration week, we spoke to Meg Sanders, NCH&C’s Community Dietetics Service Lead
Read Nutrition & Hydration Week: Introducing NCH&C's Dietetics Service…NCH&C is a top performing community trust in the 2023 NHS Staff Survey
NCH&C staff among top performing community trusts for staff recommending trust as a place to work
Read NCH&C is a top performing community trust in the 2023 NHS Staff Survey…Volunteer spotlight: Les, Life after Stroke Volunteer
Les is a volunteer at the Beech Stroke Rehabilitation Ward, Norwich Community Hospital
Read Volunteer spotlight: Les, Life after Stroke Volunteer…Patient presents star to staff at Swaffham Community Hospital
Staff at Swaffham Community Hospital presented with a star named after the ward by a grateful patient
Read Patient presents star to staff at Swaffham Community Hospital…Complementary care packs for patients at Priscilla Bacon Hospice
Patients at Priscilla Bacon Hospice treated to care packs provided by the NCH&C Charitable Fund
Read Complementary care packs for patients at Priscilla Bacon Hospice…NCH&C press office
Enquiries from the media are handled by the NCH&C press office. Our press office only deals with enquiries from the media. If you're not a media contact, there are other ways you can get in touch with NCH&C. Visit the Contact Us page to get in touch.
The NCH&C press office is open Monday to Friday, from 9am until 5pm. Please contact us in the following ways:
Tel: 01603 697366
Email: communications@nchc.nhs.uk
For urgent matters that occur outside of the usual opening hours, please contact the press office on 07747115764.
Please do not email us about urgent matters, as this inbox is not monitored outside of office hours.
Media FAQs
How do I request to take photographs or film footage of/at your premises or of your staff/services?
Please get in touch with the NCH&C communications team for permission to film or take photographs of our premises, staff and/or services before it takes place. If we can support the request, we will.
We’ve put together some guidelines which we ask the media to follow when taking photographs or filming at our trust:
- To help us with your request, please give us as much notice as possible.
- In order to protect our patients and staff, photography and filming is not allowed in some areas of the trust. Proper consent must be obtained before filming or photographing patients and/or staff.
- We don’t usually approve requests to film or photograph general shots of our premises and/or our staff or ‘pieces to camera’ that don’t directly relate to the work of NCH&C.
- We ask all media professionals on site to be accompanied by a member of our staff at all times.
- Please follow infection control procedures including using hand gel on entering and leaving clinical areas.
Anyone who is found filming or taking photographs at the hospital without permission will be asked to leave immediately, and footage and photographs may be confiscated.
How do I submit a Freedom of Information request or a Subject Access Request to NCH&C?
Please visit our dedicated section on accessing information we hold.