Healthcare in Northamptonshire is now the responsibility of Nene and Corby Clinical Commissioning Groups, with some involvement of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CCG.
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History
From 1947 to 1974 NHS services in Northamptonshire were managed by the Oxford Regional Hospital Board. In 1974 the Boards were abolished and replaced by Regional Health Authorities. Northamptonshire came under the Oxford RHA. Regions were reorganised in 1996 and Northamptonshire came under the Anglia and Oxford Regional Health Authority. From 1974 there was one Area health authority covering the county. From 1982 there were two District Authorities, Kettering and Northampton, but they were merged in 1993. Three Primary care trusts were established in the county in 2002: Daventry and South Northamptonshire PCT, Northampton Teaching PCT and Northamptonshire Heartlands PCT. They were merged into Northamptonshire Teaching 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.
Northamptonshire formed a sustainability and transformation plan area in March 2016 with John Wardell, the Accountable Officer of Nene Clinical Commissioning Group, as its leader
Primary care
2 practices in the county are in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group. 69 are in Nene CCG, and 5 are in Corby CCG, including Lakeside Surgery, the biggest General practice in the National Health Service with 62 partners.
Out-of-hours services are provided in the county by Integrated Care 24 Limited.
Acute services
Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust are the main acute providers in the county.
Mental health
Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Community services
Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provide the majority of the community services in the county including community nursing and therapy services.
Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in conjunction with the county Council set up a new organisation, First for Wellbeing, in November 2015 to provide public health services including debt advice, smoking cessation and weight management.
Healthwatch
There is a Healthwatch organisation