NHS Birmingham East and North was an
NHS primary care trust
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. Until 31 May ...
(PCT) that was formed on 1 October 2006 following the merger of Eastern Birmingham PCT and North Birmingham PCT. PCTs were abolished in April 2013.
NHS Birmingham East and North primary care trust provided primary care, intermediate care and community services on behalf of 440,000 people living in the east and north of Britain's second city. It was one of three primary care trusts that covered Birmingham. Following the Health and Social Care Act of 2012, the PCT was dissolved and NHS Birmingham CrossCity Clinical Commissioning Group become the largest commissioner of healthcare in the area.
The trust commissioned services from GPs, dentists, pharmacists, opticians, and voluntary sector organisations. It is held accountable for the quality and accessibility of these services, primarily by the
Care Quality Commission
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NHS Birmingham East and North also answered to
NHS West Midlands, the Strategic Health Authority for the region.
The trust employed over 1,700 staff, and was responsible for over 200 GPs working in more than 80 practices.
The trust spent hundreds of millions of pounds every year on services for local people; it also held the money to commission specialised services for people across the whole of the
West Midlands. The trust directly provided primary care and community services through its Community Health Services arm.
Areas served
The trust was charged with looking after the healthcare services for the following wards on the north and eastern half of Birmingham:
Acocks Green
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Bordesley Green
Bordesley Green is an inner-city area of Birmingham, England about two miles east of the city centre. It also contains a road of the same name. It is in the Bordesley Green Ward which also covers some of Small Heath.
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Erdington,
Hodge Hill
Hodge Hill is an area 4 miles east of Birmingham City Centre, England. It is also a council constituency, managed by its own district committee. The MP of Hodge Hill is currently Liam Byrne.
The constituency includes the smaller constituency ...
, Kingstanding and Oscott,
Shard End
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,
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South Yardley
South Yardley is a largely residential area in east Birmingham, England about from the city centre, and one of the city's 69 electoral wards.
Ward
Following the 2017 City of Birmingham ward revisions South Yardley covers a much smaller area ...
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Stechford and Yardley North,
Stockland Green
Stockland Green is an area of Birmingham, England.
It gives its name to a ward which is part of the Erdington formal district, and is located to the south-west of Erdington and north-east of Birmingham City Centre. The area is often mistakenl ...
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Sutton Four Oaks
Sutton Four Oaks is one of the 40 electoral wards in Birmingham, England.
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Sutton New Hall,
Sutton Trinity
Sutton Trinity is one of the 40 electoral wards in Birmingham, England. It is named after Holy Trinity Church, the town's parish church.
Sutton Trinity is one of four wards comprising the Parliamentary Constituency and formal district of Sutto ...
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Sutton Vesey, Tyburn, and
Washwood Heath
Washwood Heath is a ward in Birmingham, within the formal district of Hodge Hill, roughly two miles north-east of Birmingham city centre, England. Washwood Heath covers the areas of Birmingham that lie between Nechells, Bordesley Green, Stec ...
.
Other responsibilities
NHS Birmingham East and North was responsible for Sutton Cottage and the John Taylor Hospice, Erdington. Plus, it is the lead commissioner for mental health, learning disabilities and sexual health in Birmingham.
It also hosted the infrastructure functions of estates, IT and finance and contractor services for all three Birmingham primary care trusts and the West Midlands Specialised Services Commissioning Team, which commissions specialised services on behalf of the region.
Board
Paul Sabapathy CBE was Chairman of NHS Birmingham East and North, as well as holding the position of Her Majesty's Lord-Lieutenant for the County of the West Midlands. Sophia Christie was the chief executive of the trust.
Innovations
It contracted
Pfizer Health Solutions
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to operate Birmingham OwnHealth, a telephone support programme for people with chronic disorders.
In 2008, it offered financial incentives to overweight nurses to lose weight.
References
External links
Official siteCare Quality Commission performance ratingsBirmingham East and North on NHS Choices
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Defunct NHS trusts
Health in Birmingham, West Midlands