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Birmingham East and North Primary Care Trust

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NHS Birmingham East and North is an NHS primary care trust (PCT) that was formed on 1 October 2006 following merger of Eastern Birmingham PCT and North Birmingham PCT.

The 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.

Board

NHS Birmingham East and North is headed up by Paul Sabapathy CBE as its Chairman and Sophia Christie as its Chief Executive.

About the trust

Known as Birmingham East and North PCT (BEN PCT) until 01 April 2009, the trust provides primary care, intermediate care and community services on behalf of 440,000 people living Britain’s second city. We serve a diverse and vibrant community that includes some of the most deprived wards in the country.

The trust employs over 1,700 staff, and is responsible for over 200 GPs, working in more than 80 practices. It is also responsible for Sutton Cottage Hospital and the John Taylor Hospice, Erdington.

The trust covers 16 wards on the North and Eastern half of Birmingham including:

Acocks Green Bordesley Green Erdington Hodge Hill Kingstanding and Oscott Shard End Sheldon South Yardley Stechford and Yardley North Stockland Green Sutton Four Oaks Sutton New Hall Sutton Trinity Sutton Vesey Tyburn Washwood Heath

NHS Birmingham East and North spends hundreds of millions of pounds every year on services for local people; the trust also hosts the money to commission specialised services for people across the whole of the West Midlands.

Website

Visit NHS Birmingham East and North website