Cheshire and Merseyside trusts form new provider collaborative

Tuesday, 6 May 2025

Two provider collaboratives in the region have come together to form the Cheshire and Merseyside Provider Collaborative (CMPC) from 1 May 2025.

Both Cheshire and Merseyside Acute and Specialist Trust Provider Collaborative (CMAST), and the Mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Provider Collaborative (MHLDC) are excited to work together in a structure that brings together a shared opportunity for provider engagement, improvement and transformation across the health and care system.

CMPC will focus on aligning in-hospital and out-of-hospital services to improve patient care and ensure these services are more streamlined and efficient. This will support the Government’s guidance to shift activity out of hospitals to be delivered closer to home and in the community, recognising the interdependence between acute and community services.  

The collaborative will have a focus on finding opportunities for more efficiency, removing unwarranted variation and embedding standardised ways of working where appropriate, as well as working to ensure that those in greatest need have access to quality health and care services.

Linda Buckley, Managing Director for CMPC said:

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“This new direction for our provider collaboration provides an exciting opportunity for us to work better together. I am appreciative of all the successes, contribution and solid foundations that the two former collaboratives have provided the system and how this will help us to establish our new single holistic approach to collaboration. I look forward to growing and expanding on our successes over the next period with all our providers working more closely together.”

CMPC is made up of the following providers:

For more information and updates from CMPC, visit our webpage.