In just a few months, Derby City Primary Care Trust's (PCT) family nurse partnership will leave the NHS and set itself up as a social enterprise.
Its small team of seven nurses is among a raft of groups of NHS staff that have so far taken up the government's "right to request" offer to become a not-for-profit company and bid for NHS contracts.
Chris Tully leads the partnership and will be managing director of the social enterprise. She says uncertainty over funding made the decision to split from the NHS less daunting.
"Because funding may have lasted only another year anyway, we felt we had nothing to lose and this would be the best way to continue caring for families," she says.
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