Healthcare in Northamptonshire

Healthcare in Northamptonshire is now the responsibility of Northamptonshire Clinical Commissioning Group, with some involvement of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CCG.

History

From 1947 to 1974 NHS services in Northamptonshire were managed by the Oxford Regional Hospital Board. In 1974 the boards were abolished and replaced by regional health authorities. Northamptonshire came under the Oxford RHA. Regions were reorganised in 1996 and Northamptonshire came under the Anglia and Oxford Regional Health Authority. From 1974 there was one area health authority covering the county. From 1982 there were two district health authorities, Kettering and Northampton, but they were merged in 1993. Three primary care trusts were established in the county in 2002: Daventry and South Northamptonshire PCT, Northampton Teaching PCT and Northamptonshire Heartlands PCT. They were merged into Northamptonshire Teaching PCT in 2006. They were managed by the Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland Strategic Health Authority which was merged into NHS East Midlands in 2006.

Sustainability and transformation plans

Northamptonshire formed a sustainability and transformation plan area in March 2016 with John Wardell, the Accountable Officer of Nene Clinical Commissioning Group, as its leader[1] In May 2018 the partnership, which had been rated “in need of improvement” by NHS England in 2017, produced a list of “helpful” and “unhelpful” behaviours for its board members and planned to hold a “reconciliation event” hoping to override all individual or organisational self-interest.[2] It was unclear whether this difficulty was related to the financial difficulty of Northamptonshire County Council.

Commissioning

Primary care

Two practices in the county are in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group. The remaining 74 are in Northamptonshire CCG, including Lakeside Surgery, the biggest general practice in the National Health Service with 62 partners.

Out-of-hours services are provided in the county by Integrated Care 24 Limited.

Acute services

Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust are the main acute providers in the county.

Mental health

Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Community services

Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provide the majority of the community services in the county including community nursing and therapy services.

Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in conjunction with the county council set up a new organisation, First for Wellbeing, in November 2015 to provide public health services including debt advice, smoking cessation and weight management.[3] Badby Park is a specialist provider of care for people with long term conditions.

Healthwatch

There is a Healthwatch organisation

See also

References

  1. ↑ "The leaders chosen for 41 of England's STPs". Health Service Journal. 30 March 2016. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
  2. ↑ "Struggling STP bans 'unhelpful' board member behaviour". Health Service Journal. 3 May 2018. Retrieved 24 May 2018.
  3. ↑ "Trust to transfer public health services to social enterprise". Health Service Journal. 11 November 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
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