Sentences with phrase «local strategic health authorities»

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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.

But it will struggle to implement this, the NAO added, because the Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) and Strategic Health Authorities which are responsible for driving efficiency are set to be scrapped by 2013 - to be replaced by local consortia of GPs.

Accountability and control will move out of the obscure network of Primary Care Trusts and Strategic Health Authorities, and into the hands of recognisable, visible members of the community: that is, local GPs, working with local nurses and hospital consultants.

Meanwhile, the Strategic Health Authorities are hardly local, as they operate on a regional basis.

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.

In Peters v East Midlands Strategic Health Authority [2009] EWCA Civ 145, [2009] All ER (D) 24 (Mar) the Court of Appeal (CA) considered the issue as to whether a claimant's care and accommodation costs should be borne by the tortfeasor or the local authority that was charged with the statutory duty of making arrangements for providing care and accommodation to the Authority [2009] EWCA Civ 145, [2009] All ER (D) 24 (Mar) the Court of Appeal (CA) considered the issue as to whether a claimant's care and accommodation costs should be borne by the tortfeasor or the local authority that was charged with the statutory duty of making arrangements for providing care and accommodation to the authority that was charged with the statutory duty of making arrangements for providing care and accommodation to the claimant.

This required strategic health authorities in consultation with PCTs and where appropriate local authorities, to review their eligibility criteria and satisfy themselves that these were in accordance with Grogan and the guidance.