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A primary care trust could commission community health centres. Primary care trusts (PCTs) were part of the National Health Service in England from 2001 to 2013. PCTs were largely administrative bodies, responsible for commissioning primary, community and secondary health services from providers.
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).
Primary care trust (PCT) (abolished 1 April 2013), which provided primary care services, public health functions and commissioned secondary care services; Care trust (abolished 1 April 2013), provided/commissioned health and social care services, usually with responsibilities of both a PCT and a local authority
Primary care trusts were given the target of sourcing at least 15 per cent of primary care from the private or voluntary sectors over the medium term. As a corollary to these initiatives, the NHS was required to take on pro-active socially "directive" policies, for example, in respect of smoking and obesity.
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 .
This list excludes community health trusts established under the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 and their successors, primary care trusts, for which see the list of primary care trusts in England. All such trusts were abolished on 31 March 2013. All trusts are supervised by NHS England.
These primary care trusts took over the functions of health authoriiesy, which were abolished under the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Social care in England was reorganised to be structured into these trusts which would pool their services - this was the first time that health and social care ...
NHS South East Coast contained 26 NHS organisations, including 6 Foundation Trusts. These comprise: eight Primary Care Trusts; thirteen NHS Acute Trusts (hospitals); four Mental Health or Specialist Trusts; and one Ambulance Trust. [2]