List of Primary Care Trusts in England

During 2006 all Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) outside the London area were restructured. The restructuring were finalised in October 2006, some of the old Primary Care Trusts are amalgamated with others to form a new PCT while others are split with its constituent parts being subsumed into several new PCTs. The number of PCTs reduced from 303 to 152. This happened alongside with the restructuring of the Strategic Health Authorities (SHAs), of which the number reduced from 28 to 10. The 10 new SHAs largely mimic the geography of the Government Office Regions, with the South East being split into South Central and South East Coast.[1]

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East Midlands

NHS East Midlands

East of England

The Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire; Norfolk, Suffolk & Cambridgeshire; and Essex strategic health authorities were merged in 2006 to make the East of England SHA. Primary care trusts were also merged and restructured to create a smaller number of larger PCTs.

London

NHS London is the strategic health authority for the capital. PCTs are coterminous with London borough boundaries. From 2009 PCTs were calling themselves NHS and then the name of their borough to make it easier for local people to understand how the NHS is managed locally.

In April 2011, all primary care trusts in London clustered with neighbouring primary care trusts, in order to achieve management cost savings.

The following clusters of PCTs are now responsible for their local NHS budgets until clinical commissioning groups led by GPs take responsibility.

NHS Outer North East London

external link to NHS Outer North East London website

NHS East London and the City

North Central London

North West London

South West London

South East London

North East England

County Durham & Tees Valley SHA

external link to County Durham Tees Valley STHA website

Northumberland, Tyne & Wear SHA

North West England

NHS North West

South East England

Kent & Medway SHA

Sussex & Surrey SHA

Hampshire & Isle of Wight SHA

Thames Valley SHA

South West England

NHS South West (South West SHA) was formed from the merger of Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire SHA, Dorset and Somerset SHA and South West Peninsula SHA.[2]

West Midlands

NHS West Midlands (West Midlands Strategic Health Authority) (Formed on 1 July 2006 from Birmingham & the Black Country SHA, Shropshire & Staffordshire SHA and West Midlands South SHA) [12]

Yorkshire and the Humber

NHS Yorkshire and the Humber

South Yorkshire SHA

North and East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire SHA

See also

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