Our partners

Norfolk and Suffolk Transitional Workforce Group

Shaping our workforce, educating our people, transforming lives.

Our partners

The main remit of the Norfolk and Suffolk Transitional Workforce Group, is to align service commissioning and workforce planning, and to build effective relationships across the local health and social care system.

The Norfolk and Suffolk Transitional Workforce Group represents NHS Norfolk and NHS Great Yarmouth and Waveney Commissioning Programme Boards and health and social care providers in the area.

Partnership working across health and social care is seen as crucial to ensure that care pathways are joined-up, and we work closely with NHS East of England and other agencies to achieve our aims and objectives. Our local partners from three acute trusts, one mental health trust, the provider arms of two Primary Care Trusts and Norfolk County Council are:

James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Norfolk & Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Queen Elizabeth Hospital Kings Lynn NHS Trust

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust

NHS Great Yarmouth & Waveney

NHS Norfolk / Norfolk Community Health & Care

Norfolk County Council (Social Services)

Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust

West Suffolk Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

NHS Suffolk

Suffolk Community Healthcare

Suffolk County Council

Regional and national partners include:

Skills Funding Agency

Learning & Skills Council

NHS East of England

Skills for Health (East of England)

National Apprenticeship Service

Also, we are working with further and higher education providers to align education provision with service needs. Our main local providers are:

University of East Anglia

University College Suffolk

University Campus Suffolk

Norwich City College

Great Yarmouth College

Lowestoft College

College of West Anglia

Cambridge Regional College