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Who We Are
We are the head office function for the NHS in the West Midlands
NHS West Midlands is the Strategic Health Authority for the West Midlands. We are one of ten strategic health authorities (SHA) created on 1 July 2006 by the government, to lead the regional NHS. We are a key link between the Department of Health and the local NHS.
Since 3 October 2011, NHS West Midlands has been part of the Midlands and East SHA Cluster, with NHS East Midlands and NHS East of England.
The NHS Management Board confirmed in July 2011 that there would be four SHA Clusters established across England, each with a single board. The Midlands and East SHA Cluster has a clear purpose in the following areas:
- Delivering for today
- Building for the future
- Supporting staff
Please use the menu to the left for further information about NHS West Midlands, our role and what we do
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With offices at St Chad’s Court and 54 Hagley Road, Edgbaston, we are 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 5.4million people living here. Our role is to ensure that NHS services, staff and organisations are developed to meet the needs of the future.
We cover Birmingham, Coventry, the Black Country, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Solihull, Staffordshire, Stoke on Trent, Telford and Wrekin, Warwickshire, and Worcestershire. We work with 47 NHS organisations across the West Midlands consisting of 19 Acute Trusts (providers of hospital healthcare services), six Mental Health Trusts, 17 Primary Care Trusts (commissioners of healthcare services, clustered into five groups), four community provider trusts and one Ambulance Trust.
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.
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