The NHS is changing. In line with the Government’s reforms primary care trusts are being abolished with the planning and management of local health services, called commissioning, moving to local GPs and clinicians. The new structures will be in place by April 2013.
In Bath and North East Somerset clinical commissioning arrangements to replace the PCT are well developed. Locally a team of six doctors and a practice manager are working in shadow format with the PCT to support this programme.
In the interim primary care trusts have been brought together into larger groups called clusters to manage the transitional period. NHS B&NES is working in partnership with NHS Wiltshire under a single chief executive and management team.
To find out more about the NHS reforms read the Health and Social Care Bill .