Comment: | The new Gloucestershire NHS PCT was formed on 1st. October 2006 and replaced the three former Primary Care Trusts in The new Gloucestershire PCT was formed on 1st. October 2006 and replaced the three former Primary Care Trusts in Gloucestershire (Cheltenham and Tewkesbury, Cotswold and Vale and West Gloucestershire).
Gloucestershire PCT has three main responsibilities:
+ improving the health of local people using our resources more effectively, to target the health needs of the local population and improving access to health services;
+ developing NHS primary care in the whole of Gloucestershire (it is called 'primary' because it is usually the part of the NHS we first meet as patients - family doctors, pharmacists, dentists and opticians are included in Primary Care) and community healthcare services;
+ commissioning of hospital services for patients in this locality. |
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