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NHS organisations

NHS services are planned for and paid for by primary care trusts (PCTs) and delivered by hospital trusts, mental health trusts, indendent sector treatment centres (ISTCs) and the East Midlands Ambulance Service.

You can find out more by clicking on the headings below and following the links to each organisation's website:

 

Primary Care Trusts

Primary care trusts are responsible for planning and paying for the full range of health services for their respective communities. This includes services delivered by hospitals, GPs, dentists, pharmacists, and mental health trusts.

PCTs in the same county have recently joined together to form a cluster eg. NHS Derby City and NHS Derbyshire County are now working jointly together as the Derbyshire cluster with a shared management, although they remain separate statutory bodies. The same applies in Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire.

NHS Northamptonshire has a shared management structure with NHS Milton Keynes and, as such, form a cluster. NHS Lincolnshire remains unchanged.

NHS East Midlands has five county-wide clusters made up of the nine PCTs. A map of the PCT clusters with information on their structures - including their Chief Executives and Chairs - can be found here. 

Derbyshire Cluster

NHS Derby City

NHS Derbyshire County

 

Leicestershire Cluster

NHS Leicester City

NHS Leicestershire County and Rutland

 

Lincolnshire Cluster

NHS Lincolnshire

 

Northamptonshire and Milton Keynes Cluster

NHS Milton Keynes

NHS Northamptonshire

 

Nottinghamshire Cluster

NHS Nottingham City

NHS Nottinghamshire County

 

 

Hospital Trusts

Hospital trusts are responsible for managing hospitals, some across a number of different locations. Some hospitals are foundation trusts which are a new type of NHS organisation, established as independent, not for profit public benefit corporations with accountability to their local communities rather than central government control.

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

 

Mental Health Trusts

Mental health and learnding disabilities trusts are responsible for delivering mental health and learning disabilities services, often across a number of different locations. Some are foundation trusts which are a new type of NHS organisation, established as independent, not for profit public benefit corporations with accountability to their local communities rather than central government control. 

Derbyshire Mental Health Services NHS Trust

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

NHS Milton Keynes

Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

 

In two of our counties, organisations known as community trusts have been established to run community based healthcare services for their populations. These are:

Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Trust

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust. 

In other areas community based services are run by the local hospital trust or the mental health and learning disability service trust.