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The Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that reorganised the administration of the National Health Service in England and Wales. The 1995 Act followed the introduction of an internal market within the NHS under the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 .
"Strategic Health Authorities will provide strategic leadership to ensure the delivery of improvements in health and health services locally by PCTs and NHS Trusts within the national framework of developing a patient-centred NHS. They will lead the development and empowerment of innovative and uniformly excellent frontline NHS organisations.
NHS trusts are not trusts in the legal sense but are in effect public sector corporations. Each trust is headed by a board consisting of executive and non-executive directors, and is chaired by a non-executive director. There were about 2,200 non-executives across 470 organisations in the NHS in England in 2015. [2]
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 ...
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 [1] The next major reorganisations would be the Health Services Act 1980 and the Health Authorities Act 1995 which repealed the 1973 Act.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 ...
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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.
The Act also split the role of district health authorities and local authorities by changing their internal structure, so that local authority departments assess the needs of the local population and then purchase the necessary services from 'providers'. To become 'providers' in the internal market, health organisations became NHS trusts ...