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Revision as of 18:14, 11 October 2009
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NHS Birmingham East and North is an NHS primary care trust (PCT)[1] that was formed on 1 October 2006 following the merger of Eastern Birmingham PCT and North Birmingham PCT.
NHS Birmingham East and North primary care trust provides 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 is one of three primary care trusts that cover Birmingham.
The trust commissions 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.
NHS Birmingham East and North also answers to NHS West Midlands, the Strategic Health Authority for the region.
Known as Birmingham East and North PCT (BEN PCT) until 01 April 2009, the trust employs over 1,700 staff, and is responsible for over 200 GPs working in more than 80 practices.
The trust spends hundreds of millions of pounds every year on services for local people; it also hosts the money to commission specialised services for people across the whole of the West Midlands. The trust directly provides primary care and community services through its Community Health Services arm.
Areas served by the trust
The trust is charged with looking after the healthcare services for the following wards on the north and eastern half of Birmingham:
Kingstanding and Oscott
Tyburn
Other trust responsibilities
NHS Birmingham East and North is 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 hosts the infrastructure functions of estates, IT and finance and contractor services for all three Birmingham primary care trusts. And it hosts the West Midlands Specialised Services Commissioning Team, which commissions specialised services on behalf of the region.
Board
Paul Sabapathy CBE is 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[2]. Sophia Christie is the Chief Executive of the trust.
Innovations
It has contracted Pfizer Health Solutions to operate Birmingham OwnHealth, a telephone support programme for people with chronic disorders.[3]
In 2008, it offered financial incentives to overweight nurses to lose weight.[4]
References
- ^ List of Primary Care Trusts in England
- ^ [Lord-Lieutenant for the West Midlands, 23 August 2007] http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page12915
- ^ Senior, Kathryn (Volume 87, Number 10, October 2009). "Preventing hospital visits through telemedicine". Bulletin of the World Health Organization. pp. 733–804. Retrieved 2009-10-09.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "Chubby nurses to be offered cash incentives to lose weight at work". The Mirror (London, England). July 14, 2008. Retrieved 2009-10-09.