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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.
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.
Hospital trust (also known as an acute trust), which provides secondary care services; Mental health trust; Ambulance services trust; Community health trust; Over time the distinction between different types has eroded, and both hospital and mental health trusts have taken on responsibility for various community services.
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.
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.
The contract is regularly revised – in 2003, the Government announced major changes to NHS dentistry, giving primary care trusts (PCTs) responsibility for commissioning NHS dental services in response to local needs, and using NHS contracts to influence where dental practices were located, and in 2006 a new contract was introduced following ...
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The Act required the Secretary of State for Health to establish strategic health authorities (SHAs) and primary care trusts (PCTs) to cover all areas in England. It also strengthened the independence of the Commission for Health Improvement (CHI), which had been created under the Health Act 1999.