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NHS trusts were established under the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 and were set up in five waves. Each one was established by a statutory instrument. NHS trusts are not trusts in the legal sense but are in effect public sector corporations.
Nearly seven years after the first NHS trust was granted foundation status, there are still more than half to go—within two years. And there's more. The replacement for the 10 strategic health authorities—the NHS Commissioning Board—needs to be fully operational by next April.
It was accepted by Andrew Lansley that a number of trusts would never reach foundation trust status, and a new organisation – the NHS Trust Development Authority – was established by the Health and Social Care Act 2012 to supervise trusts which have not reached foundation status, of which there were 99 in April 2013, 47 of which were never ...
Strategic health authorities and primary care trusts were abolished on 31 March 2013 as part of the Health and Social Care Act 2012. Facilities owned by SHAs were transferred to NHS Property Services , and their public health functions to Public Health England .
NHS chief executive Amanda Pritchard welcomed the accountability, saying: "The extensive package of reforms, developed together with government, will empower all leaders working in the NHS - and ...
This was the first time the NHS had been reorganised in the UK since it was established in 1948. [1] The next major reorganisations would be the Health Services Act 1980 and the Health Authorities Act 1995 which repealed the 1973 Act. It created a two-tier system of area health authorities (AHAs) which answered to regional health authorities ...
The National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 required the Secretary of State for Health to establish strategic health authorities (SHAs) and primary care trusts (PCTs) to cover all areas in England and abolished the 95 health authorities which has been created under the Health Authorities Act 1995, [3] moving most of ...
Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust is facing an unlimited fine over two 2018 breaches of the Health and Social Care Act. NHS trust ‘failed to act’ on CQC inspections before patient deaths ...