NHS West Midlands is a strategic health authority

NHS Strategic Health Authority

NHS strategic health authorities are part of the structure of the National Health Service in England. Each SHA is responsible for enacting the directives and implementing fiscal policy as dictated by the Department of Health at a regional level. In turn each SHA area contains various NHS trusts...

 (SHA) of the National Health Service

National Health Service (England)

The National Health Service or NHS is the publicly funded healthcare system in England. It is both the largest and oldest single-payer healthcare system in the world. It is able to function in the way that it does because it is primarily funded through the general taxation system, similar to how...

 in England

England

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. It operates in the West Midlands

West Midlands (region)

The West Midlands is an official region of England, covering the western half of the area traditionally known as the Midlands. It contains the second most populous British city, Birmingham, and the larger West Midlands conurbation, which includes the city of Wolverhampton and large towns of Dudley,...

 region, which is coterminous with the local government office region

Regions of England

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General information

NHS West Midlands (also known as West Midlands Strategic Health Authority) was created in July 2006, following the merger of Birmingham and The Black Country, Shropshire and Staffordshire, and West Midlands South SHAs.

It covers an area of approximately 5000 square miles (12,949.9 km²) with a population of approximately 5.4 million. The region has a total of 46 NHS organisations: 19 NHS hospital trust

NHS Hospital Trust

An NHS hospital trust, also known as an acute trust is an NHS trust that provides secondary health services within the English National Health Service and in NHS Wales. Hospital trusts are commissioned to provide these services by NHS primary care trusts....

s (including nine NHS foundation trust

NHS Foundation Trust

An NHS foundation trust is part of the National Health Service in England and has gained a degree of independence from the Department of Health and local NHS strategic health authority.Foundation Trusts are represented by the , .-Function:...

s); six NHS mental health services trust

NHS Mental Health Services Trust

An NHS Mental Health Trust provides health and social care services for people with mental health problems in England. They are one kind of NHS trust, the regional organisations that together form the National Health Service....

s (including three foundation trusts); 17 NHS primary care trust

NHS Primary Care Trust

An NHS primary care trust is a type of NHS trust, part of the National Health Service in England. PCTs commission primary, community and secondary care from providers. Until 31 may2011 they also provided community services directly. Collectively PCT are responsible for spending around 80% of the...

s; three community provider trusts and one NHS ambulance services trust.

The Strategic Health Authority is responsible for ensuring that the circa £10 billion pounds spent on health and health care across the region delivers better services for patients and value for money for the people living in the West Midlands.

The areas encompassed by the SHA are: Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Herefordshire, Sandwell, Shropshire, Solihull, Staffordshire, Stoke on Trent, Telford and Wrekin, Walsall, Warwickshire, Wolverhampton and Worcestershire.

There are approximately 126,000 staff employed by the NHS in the West Midlands.

Every day almost a hundred thousand people are treated in hospital, see their GP or are cared for by the NHS in the West Midlands.

Primary care trusts

1. NHS Birmingham East and North
2. NHS Coventry (Coventry Teaching PCT)
3. Dudley PCT
4. Heart of Birmingham Teaching PCT
5. Herefordshire PCT
6. NHS North Staffordshire (North Staffordshire PCT)
7. Sandwell PCT
8. Shropshire County PCT
9. Solihull PCT
10. NHS South Birmingham (South Birmingham PCT)
11. South Staffordshire PCT
12. Stoke On Trent PCT
13. Telford and Wrekin PCT
14. NHS Walsall (Walsall Teaching PCT)
15. NHS Warwickshire (Warwickshire PCT)
16. Wolverhampton City PCT
17. NHS Worcestershire (Worcestershire PCT)

Community provider organisations

1. Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust
2. Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust
3. Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

Acute trusts

1. Birmingham Children's NHS Foundation Trust
2. Birmingham Women's NHS Foundation Trust
3. Burton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
4. The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust
5. George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust
6. Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust
7. Hereford Hospitals NHS Trust
8. Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust
9. Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust
10. The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
11. The Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust
12. Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust
13. Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust
14. South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust
15. University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
16. University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust
17. University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust
18. Walsall Hospitals NHS Trust
19. Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

Mental health trusts

1. Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
2. Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust
3. Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
4. North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust
5. Sandwell Mental Health & Social Care NHS Foundation Trust
6. South Staffordshire and Shropshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust