Sentences with phrase «nhs strategic health authority»

In south west England pro-plain packaging billboards have appeared which are funded by the local Primary Care Trust, by way of the NHS Strategic Health Authority, the Department of Health and ultimately, you - the taxpayer.

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Many NHS Trusts have worked hard with strong leadership and support from Strategic Health Authorities they made great strides, and saved lives by preventing avoidable healthcare infections.

She notes a further 2,800 avoidable patient deaths have been registered at 14 other NHS trusts and calls on Nicholson to quit given his previous role as chief executive of West Midlands Strategic Health Authority.

David Nicholson knew what was going on at Mid-Staffs while he was head of the West Midlands Strategic Health Authority and, from 2007, as the chief executive of the NHS.»

There are two main levels of the NHS which ministers regularly describe as «local» and are concerned with commissioning services: Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) and Strategic Health Authorities (SHAs).

Responsibility for delivery is shared with the local NHS and with the chief executives of the ten strategic health authorities.

Initially, the government wanted to scrap primary care trusts and strategic health authorities, set up the NHS commissioning board, public health England and the new monitor at the national level, and GP commissioning consortia and health and wellbeing boards at the local level.