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CONSULTATION ON NEW PRIMARY CARE TRUST ARRANGEMENTS IN WIRRAL

CONSULTATION ON NEW PRIMARY CARE TRUST ARRANGEMENTS IN WIRRAL. BACKGROUND. Government announcement July 2005 Strategic Health Authorities (SHAs) to ask Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) to develop proposals regarding PCTs Cheshire & Merseyside propose reduction from 15 to 7 PCTs

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CONSULTATION ON NEW PRIMARY CARE TRUST ARRANGEMENTS IN WIRRAL

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  1. CONSULTATION ON NEW PRIMARY CARE TRUST ARRANGEMENTS IN WIRRAL

  2. BACKGROUND • Government announcement July 2005 • Strategic Health Authorities (SHAs) to ask Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) to develop proposals regarding PCTs • Cheshire & Merseyside propose reduction from 15 to 7 PCTs • Consultation period - Wednesday 14 December 2005 to Wednesday 22 March 2006.

  3. Southport 1 Formby Maghull Billinge Crosby Rainford 2 Litherland Knowsley Bootle 7 3 Prescot St Helens Wallasey Huyton Hoylake 4 Warrington Liverpool Great Sankey 6 10 Lymm Birkenhead Widnes 9 5 Bebington Garston 8 Speke 11 Runcorn Heswall Wilmslow Knutsford Frodsham Neston Bollington 12 Nether Alderley Ellesmere Port Northwich Helsby Macclesfield 15 Holmes Chapel Middlewich Chester Winsford 14 Congleton Sandbach 13 Crewe Alsager Nantwich Existing PCTs in Cheshire and Merseyside • Southport & Formby • South Sefton • North Liverpool • Central Liverpool • South Liverpool • Knowsley • St Helens • Halton • Warrington • Birkenhead & Wallasey • Bebington & West Wirral • Ellesmere Port & Neston • Cheshire West • Central Cheshire • Eastern Cheshire

  4. The Role of Primary Care Trusts • Health Improvement: • Improve and protect the local population’s health and reduce health inequalities • Ensure that health professionals play a key role • Commissioning: • Commission a range of safe and effective health services, working closely with partners • Increase GP involvement in decisions about services • Out of Hospital Care – Service Development: • Ensure range of services provided to meet local needs with appropriate clinical leadership

  5. Options for Wirral • Option 1 – no change • Option 2 - a new PCT covering the Borough of Wirral • Option 3 - a new PCT covering: • the Borough of Wirral • the City of Chester • the western part of the Borough of Crewe & Nantwich, the Borough of Ellesmere Port & Neston, and the western part of the Borough of Vale Royal • Option 4 - a new PCT covering the Borough of Wirral and the county of Cheshire.

  6. THE PREFERRED OPTION • The creation of a new Primary Care Trust for Wirral with the same boundary as the Borough of Wirral • The consequential dissolution of Bebington & West Wirral PCT and Birkenhead & Wallasey PCT • Depending on the outcome a new organisation will become established between 1 July 2006 and 1 October 2006

  7. Southport Formby 1 Maghull Billinge Crosby Rainford Litherland Knowsley Bootle St Helens Prescot Wallasey 3 4 Hoylake Huyton 2 5 Liverpool Warrington Birkenhead Widnes Great Sankey Lymm Bebington Garston 6 Heswall Speke Runcorn Wilmslow Knutsford Frodsham Neston Bollington Nether Alderley Ellesmere Port Northwich Helsby Macclesfield Holmes Chapel Middlewich Chester Winsford 7 Congleton Sandbach Crewe Alsager Nantwich Map showing proposed PCTs for Cheshire and Merseyside • New PCT for Sefton • New PCT for Liverpool • Keeping Knowsley PCT • New PCT for St Helens and Halton • Keeping Warrington PCT • New PCT for Wirral • New PCT for Cheshire

  8. MAKING YOUR VIEWS KNOWN You can make your views known in one of the following ways: • complete the form in the Consultation Document and return by use of a FREEPOST address. • either email your comments to consult@cmha.nhs.uk or download the form available on the SHA consultation website at www.cmha.nhs.uk/cmconsult.htm • phone on a FREEPHONE number - 0800 389 1366 - and leave a message. You will not be charged for this call. ALL DETAILS ARE IN THE CONSULTATION DOCUMENT

  9. CONSULTATION ON SHAs AND AMBULANCE TRUSTS In addition, there are consultations on the following proposals to reduce: • the number of SHAs in north west England from three to one • the number of Ambulance Service Trusts in north west England from four to one Further information about these proposals can be obtained • on line http://www.cmha.nhs.uk/ • email consult@cmha.nhs.uk or • by phone – Freephone 0800 389 1366 • and leaving your request

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