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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.
An NHS foundation trust is a semi-autonomous organisational unit within the National Health Service in England. They have a degree of independence from the Department of Health and Social Care (and, until the abolition of SHAs in 2013, their local strategic health authority). As of March 2019 there were 151 foundation trusts.
In October 2011, in preparation for planned government changes, NHS North West, alongside NHS Yorkshire and Humberside and NHS North East became a part of the NHS North of England SHA cluster - a temporary administrative merger to manage the North of England health economy until the planned dissolution of SHAs in March 2013. The merger ...
NHS West Midlands (also known as West Midlands Strategic Health Authority) was created in July 2006, following the merger of Birmingham and The Black Country, Shropshire and Staffordshire, and West Midlands South SHAs.
NHS South East Coast was a strategic health authority of the National Health Service in England. It operated in the South East region, along with NHS South Central , providing coterminosity with the local government office region .
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.
Serco ran Suffolk Community Healthcare from 2012 until 2015. In October 2015 the services were due to be taken over by a joint venture run by Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust, West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust and Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust.
In November 2020 plans were announced for a merger between Somerset NHS Foundation Trust and Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. The merger took place on 1 April 2023. [ 5 ] This has created England's first provider of primary, acute, community and mental health care services as Yeovil FT owns Symphony Healthcare — a subsidiary ...