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"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.
In 2016, the Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) in Berkshire launched the Connected Care programme. This system allows 102 GP practices, Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, South Central Ambulance Service, and six local councils in Berkshire to share patient records.
NHS mental health and learning disability services in the county are now provided by Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust and Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. Mental health patients from Manchester were transferred to private clinics, many in remote locations, more than 670 times between 2013 and 2015.
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.
Services for children and adolescents are provided by North East London NHS Foundation Trust, who took over from Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust in 2017. [ 26 ] 76 children and young people out of 793 who had waited longer than the 18 week target time for treatment were put at risk by long delays in 2018/9.
Bristol City Council refused to support plans to cut £305M from the Bristol area's NHS funding at its meeting in January 2017. In 2018, Julia Ross was appointed joint STP lead, alongside Robert Woolley. She said in April 2018 that they were setting up six "locality provider groups" across the region to join up services for a defined population.
There are three plans for the county. In March 2016 Sir Andrew Morris, Chief Executive of Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, was appointed the leader of the Frimley Health Sustainability and transformation plan footprint, which covers the areas of Bracknell and Ascot CCG, North East Hampshire and Farnham CCG, Slough CCG, Surrey Heath CCG and Windsor, Ascot and Maidenhead CCG. [2]
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is the main NHS provider. In 2016, Stephen Dorrell was appointed to chair an independent board to advise and oversee the partnership between health and social services in the Birmingham and Solihull Sustainability and transformation plan as it developed over the following five years.