Specialization Of Bedfordshire Heartlands Primary Care Trust
Neurologist
About Bedfordshire Heartlands Primary Care Trust
NHS Bedfordshire is responsible for commissioning all health services for more than 420,000 people who live in the county.
We were established as Bedfordshire Primary Care Trust (PCT) in October 2006 and cover the area formerly served by Bedford PCT and Bedfordshire Heartlands PCT. We are now known as NHS Bedfordshire, which more fully reflects what we do and our role as the leader of the NHS in Bedfordshire.
We manage an annual budget of more than £585 million — all NHS money spent on healthcare for the people of Bedfordshire. We use this to assess needs, plan services, fund care, deliver patient satisfaction and assure quality. This includes the quality of care provided by GPs, nurses, therapists, dentists, optometrists, pharmacists and other health professionals working in the community.
We also have responsibility for initiatives aimed at preventing ill health including the stop smoking programme, childhood immunisations and influenza vaccinations.
Our overall aim is to secure a real improvement in the health of local people. We achieve this partly through partnership with primary care professionals, other NHS organisations and with local authority colleagues, independent providers and voluntary organisations.
