NHS Strategic Health Authorities (SHA) are part of the structure of the National Health Service. In 2002, the existing NHS Health Authorities (see List of NHS Health Authorities (1996-2002))were renamed and merged to form the 28 new Strategic Health Authorities [1] [2].
On April 12th 2006, Patricia Hewitt announced that, following an NHS consultation, which ended on March 22nd 2006, the SHAs are to be reorganized to 10 in number. A map of the new SHA boundaries is available on the Department of Health website[3].
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 which take responsibility for running the different NHS services locally.
Types of Trust
Map
- Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire SHA
- Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire SHA
- Birmingham and The Black Country SHA (West Midlands minus Coventry)
- Cheshire and Merseyside SHA
- County Durham and Tees Valley SHA
- Cumbria and Lancashire SHA
- Dorset and Somerset SHA
- Essex SHA
- Greater Manchester SHA
- Hampshire and Isle Of Wight SHA
- Kent and Medway SHA
- Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland SHA
- Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire SHA
- North and East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire SHA
- North Central London SHA
- North East London SHA
- North West London SHA
- Northumberland, Tyne and Wear SHA
- Shropshire and Staffordshire SHA
- South East London SHA
- South West London SHA
- South West Peninsula SHA
- South Yorkshire SHA
- Surrey and Sussex SHA (Surrey, East Sussex, West Sussex)
- Thames Valley SHA (Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire)
- Trent SHA (Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire)
- West Midlands South SHA (Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire, Coventry) †
- West Yorkshire SHA
† known as the 'Coventry, Warwickshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire SHA until 2004 [4]
The London breakup is
- North Central London - Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey, Islington
- North East London - Barking and Dagenham, City, Hackney, Havering, Newham, Redbridge, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest
- North West London - Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith and Fulham, Kensington and Chelsea, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Westminster
- South East London - Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark
- South West London - Croydon, Kingston, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Sutton
See [5] for exact breakdown of 1996 Health Authorities.