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Strategic health authorities (SHA) were part of the structure of the National Health Service in England between 2002 and 2013. Each SHA was responsible for enacting the directives and implementing fiscal policy as dictated by the Department of Health at a regional level. Each SHA area contained various NHS trusts which took responsibility for running or commissioning local NHS services, and the SHA was responsible for strategic supervision of these services.
Contents
- SHAs after 1 July 2006
- Types of trust under the supervision of SHAs
- Map of SHAs before 2006 reorganisation
- References
In 2002, the existing regional health authorities were renamed and merged to form 28 new strategic health authorities. On 12 April 2006, Patricia Hewitt, Secretary of State for Health, announced that, following an NHS consultation which ended on 22 March 2006, the SHAs were to be reorganized, reducing to ten in number. This was hoped to produce substantial financial savings.
The SHAs had the board and governance structures common to all NHS trusts.
Strategic health authorities and primary care trusts were abolished on 31 March 2013 as part of the Health and Social Care Act 2012. Facilities owned by SHAs were transferred to NHS Property Services.
SHAs after 1 July 2006
The ten SHAs established on 1 July 2006, and abolished on 31 March 2013, were:
- NHS East of England (East of England region)
- NHS East Midlands (East Midlands region)
- NHS London (London)
- NHS North East (North East region)
- NHS North West (North West region)
- NHS South Central
- NHS South East Coast
- NHS South West (South West region)
- NHS West Midlands (West Midlands region)
- NHS Yorkshire and the Humber (Yorkshire and the Humber region)
These Strategic Health Authorities are coterminous with government office regions, except that the large South East England region is divided into two: South Central and South East Coast.
Types of trust under the supervision of SHAs
Map of SHAs before 2006 reorganisation
- Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire SHA
- Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire SHA
- Birmingham and The Black Country SHA (West Midlands minus Coventry)
- Cheshire and Merseyside SHA
- County Durham and Tees Valley SHA
- Cumbria and Lancashire SHA
- Dorset and Somerset SHA
- Essex SHA
- Greater Manchester SHA
- Hampshire and Isle of Wight SHA
- Kent and Medway SHA
- Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland SHA
- Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire SHA
- North and East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire SHA
- North Central London SHA
- North West London SHA
- North East London SHA
- Northumberland, Tyne and Wear SHA
- Shropshire and Staffordshire SHA
- South East London SHA
- South West London SHA
- South West Peninsula SHA
- South Yorkshire SHA
- Surrey and Sussex SHA (Surrey, East Sussex, West Sussex)
- Thames Valley SHA (Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire)
- Trent SHA (Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire)
- West Midlands South SHA (Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire, Coventry) †
- West Yorkshire SHA
† known as the 'Coventry, Warwickshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire SHA until 2004.
The London break-up was
These SHAs were replaced by a single London SHA in 2006.