The Sheffield Primary Care Trust (PCT) was formed on 1st October
2006 following the merger of North Sheffield PCT, South East
Sheffield PCT, Sheffield South West PCT and Sheffield West PCT.
Sheffield PCT serves a population of approximately 516,000 and
covers the same area as Sheffield City Council.
Address: 722 Prince of Wales Road,
Darnall,
Sheffield,
S9 4EU
Tel: (0114) 3051000 (from 29/05/08, before then 226 4555)
Visit the Sheffield Primary Care Trust website: www.sheffieldpct.nhs.uk» |
Primary Care services
For full information about primary care services in Sheffield, including
GPs, dentists, pharmacists and opticians, please see the Sheffield
PCT Services section» About Primary Care Trusts
Primary Care is the care provided by people you normally see when
you first have a health problem. It might be a visit to a doctor
or dentist, an optician for an eye test, or just a trip to a pharmacist
to buy cough mixture. NHS Walk-in Centres, and the phone line service
NHS Direct, are also part of primary care. All of these services
are managed for you by your local Primary Care Trust.
PCTs are now at the centre of the NHS and control 80 per cent of
the NHS budget. As they are local organisations, they are in the
best position to understand the needs of their community, so they
can make sure that the organisations providing health and social
care services are working effectively.
The main functions of Primary Care Trusts are to:
- Engage with its local population to improve health and well-being
- Commission a comprehensive and equitable range of high quality
responsive and efficient services, within allocated resources
- Directly provide high qualilty responsive and efficient services
where this gives the best value.
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