List of primary care trusts in England

Primary care trusts were abolished on 31 March 2013 as part of the Health and Social Care Act 2012, with their commissioning work taken over by clinical commissioning groups. Their public health role was transferred to local authorities and to Public Health England. Their community service provision was distributed in various ways, some to community health trusts. This list is of the PCTs which existed in 2012.

History

In October 2006, all primary care trusts (PCTs) outside the London area were restructured. This reduced the number of PCTs from 303 to 152.^[1] At the same time, the number of strategic health authorities (SHAs) (which have responsibility for the PCTs) were also decreased (from 28 to 10). These ten new SHAs largely mimic the geography of the government office regions. The exception to this was the South East Government Office Region which is covered by two strategic health authorities: South Central SHA and South East Cost SHA.^[2]

The PCTs were organised into clusters so as to achieve management cost savings, although the PCTs themselves remained separate statutory bodies. Whilst the majority of clusters contained multiple PCTs, there were some clusters, such as Cumbria, which consisted of just a single primary care trust. In October 2011, the ten SHAs were also grouped into clusters, with each having its own executive team, chief executive, and directors. There were four SHA clusters, and these were London, North of England, NHS Midlands and East, and South of England.^[3]

As a result of the Health and Social Care Act 2012, all PCTs and SHAs were abolished on 31 March 2013, and replaced by clinical commissioning groups taking over the function of commissioning health and care services.

London

NHS London was the strategic health authority for the capital, with responsibility for 31 PCTs which operated in five clusters. The PCTs were coterminous with London borough boundaries.

NHS North East London and the City

In April 2012, North East London and the City was created from the merger of two previous PCT clusters; NHS East London and the City, and NHS Outer North East London.^[4]

Barking and Dagenham PCT
Havering PCT
Redbridge PCT
Waltham Forest PCT
City and Hackney Teaching PCT
Newham PCT
Tower Hamlets PCT

North Central London

Camden PCT
Enfield PCT
Haringey Teaching PCT
Islington PCT

North West London

Brent Teaching PCT
Ealing PCT
NHS Hammersmith and Fulham
Kensington and Chelsea PCT
Harrow PCT
Hillingdon PCT
NHS Hounslow
Westminster PCT

South West London

NHS Croydon - Croydon Primary Care Trust
Kingston PCT
Sutton and Merton PCT
Richmond and Twickenham PCT
Wandsworth PCT

South East London

Bexley Care Trust
Bromley PCT
Greenwich Teaching PCT
Lambeth PCT
Lewisham PCT
Southwark PCT

North of England

The North of England SHA cluster was made up of three strategic health authorities; NHS Yorkshire and the Humber, NHS North West and NHS North East.^[5]

NHS North East

NHS North East consisted of 12 PCTs organised into 4 clusters.

County Durham and Darlington

County Durham PCT – Created by a merger of five primarycCaretTrusts in 2006. These PCTs were: Derwentside, Durham and Chester-le-Street, Durham Dales, Easington and Sedgefield PCTs.
Darlington PCT

North of Tyne

Newcastle PCT
North Tyneside PCT
Northumberland Care Trust

South of Tyne and Wear

Gateshead PCT
South Tyneside PCT
Sunderland Teaching PCT

Tees

NHS Hartlepool
NHS Middlesbrough
NHS Redcar and Cleveland
NHS Stockton-on-Tees

NHS North West

NHS North West consisted of 24 PCTs organised into 5 PCT clusters.^[6]

Cheshire, Warrington and Wirral

Central and Eastern Cheshire PCT
Warrington PCT
Western Cheshire PCT
Wirral PCT - Formed on 1 October 2006 from the merger of Birkenhead & Wallasey PCT, and Bebington & West Wirral PCT

Cumbria

Cumbria PCT

Greater Manchester

NHS Ashton, Leigh and Wigan
Bolton PCT
Bury PCT
Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale PCT
Manchester PCT (Merged from Manchester North, South and Central PCTs)
NHS Oldham
Salford PCT
Stockport PCT
Tameside and Glossop PCT - This PCT reported to the North West SHA, though part it (Glossop) fell geographically within the East Midlands SHA
Trafford PCT

Lancashire

Blackburn with Darwen PCT
Blackpool PCT
Central Lancashire PCT - Formed on 1 October 2006 from the merger of Chorley and South Ribble PCT, Preston PCT, and West Lancashire PCT
East Lancashire Teaching PCT
North Lancashire PCT - Formed on 1 October 2006 from the merger of Fylde PCT, Wyre PCT, and half of Morecambe Bay PCT

Merseyside

Halton and St Helens PCT
Liverpool PCT
Sefton PCT
Knowsley PCT

NHS Yorkshire and the Humber

NHS Yorkshire and the Humber SHA was formed in 2006 from the merger of the three former SHAa of West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, and North and East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire. This SHA contained 15 PCTs organised into 6 clusters.

Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield

Calderdale PCT
NHS Kirklees (when created?)
NHS Wakefield District

The Humber

NHS Hull
North East Lincolnshire Care Trust Plus
East Riding of Yorkshire
North Lincolnshire PCT

South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw

Barnsley PCT
Bassetlaw PCT - until 2011 Bassetlaw PCT was under the East Midlands SHA. However, when PCTs were formed into clusters, it was transferred to the South Yorkshire cluster.
Doncaster PCT (from the merger of Doncaster Central PCT, Doncaster East PCT, Doncaster West PCT on 1 October 2006)
NHS Rotherham
NHS Sheffield (from the merger of North Sheffield PCT, Sheffield South West PCT, Sheffield West PCT, Sheffield South East PCT on 1 October 2006)

Bradford

Bradford and Airedale Teaching Primary Care Trust

Leeds

NHS Leeds

North Yorkshire and York

NHS North Yorkshire and York

NHS Midlands and East

This SHA cluster was constituted into three strategic health authorities; NHS East of England, NHS East Midlands, and NHS West Midlands.

NHS East Midlands

This strategic health authority had responsibility for nine PCTs, arranged into five clusters.^[7]

Derbyshire County and Derby City

Derby City PCT - Formed from the merger of Central Derby PCT and Greater Derby PCT
Derbyshire County PCT - Formed on 1 October 2006 from the merger of High Peak and Dales PCT, Erewash PCT, Derbyshire Dales and South Derbyshire PCT, North Eastern Derbyshire PCT, Amber Valley PCT and Chesterfield PCT

Leicestershire County and Rutland and Leicestershire City

Leicester City PCT - Formed from the merger of Eastern Leicester PCT and Leicester City West PCT
Leicestershire County and Rutland PCT - Formed from the merger of Charnwood & North West Leicestershire PCT, Hinckley and Bosworth PCT, Melton, Rutland & Harborough PCT, and South Leicestershire PCT

Lincolnshire

NHS Lincolnshire - Formed from the merger of East Lincolnshire PCT, Lincolnshire South West Teaching PCT and West Lincolnshire PCT

Northamptonshire and Milton Keynes

Northamptonshire Teaching PCT - Formed from the merger of Daventry and South Northamptonshire PCT, Northampton Teaching PCT and Northamptonshire Heartlands PCT
Milton Keynes PCT - Became part of the East Midlands SHA in April 2011.^[8]

Nottinghamshire County and Nottingham City

Nottingham City PCT
Nottinghamshire County Teaching PCT - Formed from the merger of Ashfield PCT, Broxtowe and Hucknall PCT, Gedling PCT, Mansfield District PCT, Newark and Sherwood PCT, and Rushcliffe PCT [7]

East of England

The Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire; Norfolk, Suffolk & Cambridgeshire; and Essex strategic health authorities were merged in July 2006 to make the East of England SHA.

Hertfordshire

NHS Hertfordshire

Bedfordshire and Luton

NHS Luton
NHS Bedfordshire
North Essex
West Essex PCT
North East Essex PCT
Mid-Essex PCT

South Essex

South East Essex PCT
South West Essex PCT

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough

Cambridgeshire PCT
Peterborough PCT

Norfolk and Waveney

Norfolk PCT
Great Yarmouth and Waveney PCT

Suffolk

Suffolk PCT

West Midlands

NHS West Midlands (otherwise known as the West Midlands Strategic Health Authority) was formed on 1 July 2006 from Birmingham and the Black Country SHA, Shropshire and Staffordshire SHA, and West Midlands South SHA). It consisted of five PCT clusters.

Arden

Coventry Teaching PCT
Warwickshire PCT - formed on 1 October 2006 following merger of North Warwickshire PCT, Rugby PCT and South Warwickshire PCT)

Birmingham and Solihull

NHS Birmingham East and North (also known as Birmingham East and North Primary Care Trust, and formed on 1 October 2006 following merger of Eastern Birmingham PCT and North Birmingham PCT)
Heart of Birmingham Teaching PCT
Solihull Care Trust (Solihull Adult Social services joined Solihull PCT to create a new organisation Solihull Care Trust)
South Birmingham PCT

Black Country

Dudley PCT (formed on 1 October 2006 following merger of Dudley Beacon & Castle PCT and Dudley South PCT)
Sandwell PCT (formed on 1 October 2006 following merger of Oldbury & Smethwick PCT, Rowley Regis & Tipton PCT and Wednesbury & West Bromwich PCT)
Walsall Teaching PCT
Wolverhampton City PCT

Staffordshire

Stoke-on-Trent PCT
South Staffordshire PCT
NHS North Staffordshire (North Staffordshire PCT - formed on 1 October 2006 following merger of Newcastle-under-Lyme PCT and Staffordshire Moorlands PCT)

West Mercia

Herefordshire PCT
NHS Telford and Wrekin (Telford and Wrekin PCT)
Shropshire County PCT
Worcestershire PCT (formed on 1 October 2006 following merger of Redditch and Bromsgrove PCT, South Worcestershire PCT and Wyre Forest PCT)

NHS South of England

The NHS South of England SHA comprised South Central, South East Coast and South West strategic health authorities.

South Central Strategic Health Authority

This SHA consisted of eight PCTs organised into three separate clusters.

NHS Berkshire Cluster

NHS Berkshire West
NHS Berkshire East

NHS Southampton, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Portsmouth

NHS Southampton City
NHS Hampshire
NHS Isle of Wight
NHS Portsmouth

NHS Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire

NHS Buckinghamshire
NHS Oxfordshire

South East Coast

Kent and Medway

NHS Eastern and Coastal Kent
NHS West Kent
NHS Medway

Surrey

Surrey PCT

Sussex

Brighton and Hove City PCT
East Sussex Downs and Weald PCT (made by merger of Eastbourne Downs PCT and Sussex Downs and Weald PCT)
Hastings and Rother PCT (made by merger of Hastings and St Leonards PCT and Bexhill and Rother PCT)
West Sussex PCT (made by merger of Adur, Arun and Worthing PCT, Western Sussex PCT, Horsham and Chanctonbury PCT, Crawley PCT, and Mid-Sussex PCT)
Wycombe PCT

NHS South West

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.^[9] It consisted of 7 PCT clusters containing 14 PCTs.

Bath, North East Somerset, Wiltshire

Bath & North East Somerset PCT
Wiltshire PCT

Bournemouth, Poole, Dorset

Dorset PCT
Bournemouth & Poole Teaching PCT

Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire

Bristol Teaching PCT
North Somerset PCT
South Gloucestershire PCT

Cornwall and Isles of Scilly

Cornwall & Isles of Scilly PCT

Devon, Plymouth, Torbay Care Trust

Devon PCT
Plymouth Teaching PCT (also known as NHS Plymouth)
Torbay Care Trust

Gloucestershire, Swindon

Gloucestershire PCT
Swindon PCT

Somerset

Somerset PCT

References

^ "The Primary Care Trusts (Establishment and Dissolution) (England) Order 2006".
^ "PCT Mergers October 2006". Connecting for Health. Archived from the original on 8 March 2007. Retrieved 28 February 2007.
^ Hitchcock, Gill (18 July 2011). "NHS confirms four new regions for England". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 June 2024.
^ "Health and Social Care Act 2012 - NHS Reforms | UKWA Topics and Themes".
^ "NHS North East | Release". www.northeast.nhs.uk. Archived from the original on 16 March 2011. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
^ "Archived copy" (PDF). www.northwest.nhs.uk. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 14 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ http://www.eastmidlands.nhs.uk/the-local-nhs/nhs-organisations/
^ "Milton Keynes PCT moves to East Midlands SHA".
^ "Devon Primary Care Trust". Archived from the original on 24 January 2009. Retrieved 18 November 2008.

[1] "The Primary Care Trusts (Establishment and Dissolution) (England) Order 2006".

[2] "PCT Mergers October 2006". Connecting for Health. Archived from the original on 8 March 2007. Retrieved 28 February 2007.

[3] Hitchcock, Gill (18 July 2011). "NHS confirms four new regions for England". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 June 2024.

[4] "Health and Social Care Act 2012 - NHS Reforms | UKWA Topics and Themes".

[5] "NHS North East | Release". www.northeast.nhs.uk. Archived from the original on 16 March 2011. Retrieved 14 January 2022.

[6] "Archived copy" (PDF). www.northwest.nhs.uk. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 14 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[7] ttp://www.eastmidlands.nhs.uk/the-local-nhs/nhs-organisations/

[8] "Milton Keynes PCT moves to East Midlands SHA".

[9] "Devon Primary Care Trust". Archived from the original on 24 January 2009. Retrieved 18 November 2008.

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