Healthcare in Wiltshire

Healthcare in Wiltshire is now the responsibility of the Clinical Commissioning Groups in Wiltshire and Swindon.

History

Victoria hospital in Swindon was established in 1887.[1] Initially it had 12 beds increasing to 22 by 1904. It finally closed in 2007.[2]

From 1947 to 1974 NHS services in Wiltshire were managed by South-West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board ( New Sarum and Wilton and the rural districts of Amesbury, Mere and Tisbury and Salisbury and Wilton), by the South-Western Board, which was responsible for the Lyme Regis area and by Oxford Regional Hospital Board (Marlborough and Swindon). In 1965 a new Board was formed for Wessex which covered the boroughs of New Sarum and Wilton and the rural districts of Amesbury, Mere and Tisbury and Salisbury and Wilton. In 1974 the Boards were abolished and replaced by Regional Health Authorities. The whole of Wiltshire came under the Wessex RHA. Regions were reorganised in 1996 and Dorset came under the South and West Regional Health Authority. Wiltshire had three Area Health Authorities: Wiltshire, Salisbury and Swindon from 1974 until 1994 when it was united into one authority for Bath and Wiltshire. Regional Health Authorities were reorganised and renamed Strategic Health Authorities in 2002. Wiltshire was part of Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire SHA. In 2006 regions were again reorganised and Wiltshire came under NHS South West until that was abolished in 2013. There was one Primary Care Trusts for the county.

Commissioning

Swindon CCG agreed in June 2015 to fund a community therapy team at the Prospect Hospice, providing occupational and physiotherapy at home, in order to reduce pressure on hospital beds.[3] Wiltshire CCG is expecting a £23million funding gap in 2016/17 and will miss its financial target by £4.8m in 2015/6. In order to resolve its financial problems it is capping the amount of planned care delivered in hospitals, limiting the number of funded procedures, and recovering money drug companies.[4]

All community services for children in the county are to be transferred to Virgin Care in April 2016. [5]

Primary care

There are 26 GP practices in Swindon and 58 in Wiltshire. Out-of-hours services are provided by Medvivo.

Community Care

Community child health services, including children’s specialist community nursing, health visiting and speech and language therapy are to be run by Virgin Care from April 2016. They were run by 5 separate NHS organisation.[6]

Mental health

Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

Hospital provision

Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust are the main acute providers in the county.

External Links

References

  1. ↑ "Moving forward? Or sad decay?". SwindonWeb. 3 July 2008. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
  2. ↑ "Victoria Hospital". Swindon History. 3 January 2012. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
  3. ↑ "Hospice's therapy team gets long-term funding to continue vital work". This is Wiltshire. 9 June 2015. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
  4. ↑ "Wiltshire healthcare in "dire" financial state, warn health bosses". Salisbury Journal. 19 October 2015. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
  5. ↑ "Wiltshire child health services transferred from NHS to Virgin Care". National Health Executive. 11 November 2015. Retrieved 11 November 2015.
  6. ↑ "Virgin Care buys child services in £64m privatisation deal". Wiltshire Times. 25 November 2015. Retrieved 14 February 2016.
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