Healthcare in Hampshire
Healthcare in Hampshire is now the responsibility of six Clinical Commissioning Groups based in Southampton, Portsmouth, North East Hampshire and Farnham, South Eastern Hampshire, West Hampshire and North Hampshire .
History
From 1947 to 1965 NHS services in Hampshire were managed by South-West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board. In 1965 a new Board was formed for Wessex which covered Hampshire. In 1974 the Boards were abolished and replaced by Regional Health Authorities. Hampshire came under the Wessex RHA. Regions were reorganised in 1996 and Hampshire came under the South and West Regional Health Authority. Hampshire had an Area Health Authority from 1974 until 1982 when it was divided into four District Authorities for Basingstoke and North Hampshire, Southampton and South West Hampshire, Winchester and Portsmouth and South East Hampshire. Basingstoke and North Hampshire and Winchester were amalgamated into North and Mid Hampshire District in 1994. Regional Health Authorities were reorganised and renamed Strategic Health Authorities in 2002. Hampshire was part of Hampshire and Isle of Wight SHA. In 2006 regions were again reorganised and Hampshire came under NHS South Central until that was abolished in 2013. There were three Primary Care Trusts for the area: NHS Southampton City, NHS Hampshire, and NHS Portsmouth.
Hampshire and the Isle of Wight formed a sustainability and transformation plan area in March 2016 with Richard Samuel, the Chief Officer of Fareham and Gosport and South Eastern Hampshire Clinical Commissioning Groups as its leader[1]
Commissioning
Care UK have a contract for elective treatment and urgent care services with Portsmouth CCG which was renewed for 5 years in September 2015. It is worth £54.6 million.[2]
Primary care
There are 173 GP practices in the county. Out-of-hours services are provided by Hampshire Doctors on Call Service. GPs and community services in Portsmouth adopted a shared Electronic health record system in October 2015.[3]
Acute services
Acute services are provided by Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust and University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust. Proposals made in 2015 for a new critical treatment hospital at North Waltham, Hampshire were not supported by the local Clinical Commissioning Groups Joint Commissioners' Steering Group.[4] Since 2008 there have been proposals to reorganise vascular services and to concentrate them in Southampton, but the Portsmouth trust has repeatedly objected.[5]
Mental Health and Community Services
Solent NHS Trust, Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust and Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust are the main providers of NHS mental health and community services. Vista Healthcare runs a low secure private hospital in Winchfield.
Healthwatch
There are three local Healthwatches for Hampshire, Portsmouth and Southampton.
See also
References
- ^ "The leaders chosen for 41 of England's STPs". Health Service Journal. 30 March 2016. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
- ^ "Care UK wins Portsmouth treatment centre contract". Health Service JOurnal. 1 September 2015. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
- ^ "Patient records being shared in full among health workers in Portsmouth". Portsmouth News. 2 November 2015. Retrieved 2 November 2015.
- ^ "Basingstoke hospital plans shelved as 'not affordable'". BBC News. 24 September 2015. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
- ^ "Stop-start vascular services shake-up creaks back into action". Health Service Journal. 20 August 2015. Retrieved 7 October 2015.