| Description | Strategic Health Authorities were responsible for developing strategies for the local health services and ensuring high-quality performance. They managed the NHS locally and were a key link between the Department of Health and the NHS. They will also ensure that national priorities (such as programmes for improving cancer services) are integrated into local plans.
(http://www.nhs.uk/thenhsexplained/how_the_nhs_works.asp)
The Trent Strategic Health Authority covers a geographical area of Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
The HA is one of the largest in the Country in terms of population and geography, with an associated breadth of demographic variables, from very remote rural communities to intensely populated urban areas, including the ex coal mining communities of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire.
Trent Strategic Health Authority is responsible for developing strategies for the local health services and ensuring high-quality performance.
(http://www.trent-sha.nhs.uk/)
The following Strategic Health Authorities cover the geographical area of the former Trent NHS Region:
South Yorkshire Strategic Health Authority (covering Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield)
Trent Strategic Health Authority (covering Derbyshire, Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire)
Leicestershire, Northamptonshire & Rutland Strategic Health Authority
North and East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire Strategic Health Authority (covering North Lincolnshire, North East Lincolnshire, East Yorkshire and North Yorkshire)
Public Health information is available from the Trent Public Health Observatory website.
Trent Strategic Health Authority was one of 28 covering England. It operated across three counties, 2.7 million people, 30 NHS organisations, 3 county councils, 22 districts councils and 4 unitary authorities.
Trent Strategic Health Authority (Trent SHA) was established in order to manage three main functions:
The framework for the NHS - ensuring that health care services deliver the national standards and priorities whilst meeting the needs of local communities and patients.
The performance of the NHS - working with NHS organisations to monitor and develop high quality performance, delivery of targets and continuous improvement. |