Healthcare in Leicestershire is now the responsibility of three Clinical Commissioning Groups covering West Leicestershire, Leicester City and East Leicestershire and Rutland.
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History
From 1947 to 1974 NHS services in Leicestershire were managed by the Sheffield Regional Hospital Board. In 1974 the Boards were abolished and replaced by Regional Health Authorities. Leicestershire came under the Trent RHA. Regions were reorganised in 1996 and Leicestershire came under the West Midlands Regional Health Authority. From 1974 there was an Area health authority covering the county. From 1982 there was one District Authority. Eight Primary care trusts were established in the county in 2002: Eastern Leicester PCT, Leicester City West PCT, Leicestershire County and Rutland PCT, Charnwood & North West Leicestershire PCT, Hinckley and Bosworth PCT, Melton, Rutland & Harborough PCT, and South Leicestershire PCT. They were merged into two: Leicester City PCT and Leicestershire County and Rutland PCT in 2006. They were managed by the Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland SHA Strategic health authority which was merged into NHS East Midlands in 2006.
In March 2016 Toby Sanders (Accountable Officer of NHS West Leicestershire Clinical Commissioning Group) was appointed the leader of the Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Sustainability and transformation plan footprint.
Commissioning
Leicestershire Health and Wellbeing Board places stress on the importance of housing and has put a housing specialist in Leicestershire Partnership Trust’s Bradgate Unit and three housing support officers at Leicester Royal Infirmary. Blaby District Council hosts a team of technical housing and grants officers, occupational therapists and adaptations specialists which is to be extended to the whole county.
Primary care
Out-of-hours services are provided in the county by Central Nottinghamshire Clinical Services and in the city by Derbyshire Health United.
Acute services
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
Mental health
Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust and Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
Healthwatch
There are two Healthwatch organisations, one for Leicestershire and one for Leicester. Rutland has its own.