West Midlands Strategic Health Authority
NHS West Midlands was a strategic health authority (SHA) of the National Health Service in England. It operated in the West Midlands region, which is with the local government office region. It was abolished in April 2013.
NHS West Midlands (also known as West Midlands Strategic Health Authority) was created in July 2006, following the merger of Birmingham and The Black Country, Shropshire and Staffordshire, and West Midlands South SHAs.
It covers an area of approximately 5,000 square miles (13,000 km2) with a population of approximately 5.4 million. The region has a total of 46 NHS organisations: 19 NHS hospital trusts (including nine NHS foundation trusts); six NHS mental health services trusts (including three foundation trusts); 17 NHS primary care trusts; three community provider trusts and one NHS ambulance services trust.
The Strategic Health Authority was responsible for ensuring that the circa £10 billion spent on health and health care across the region delivers better services for patients and value for money for the people living in the West Midlands.
The areas encompassed by the SHA are: Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Herefordshire, Sandwell, Shropshire, Solihull, Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, Telford and Wrekin, Walsall, Warwickshire, Wolverhampton and Worcestershire.
There are approximately 126,000 staff employed by the NHS in the West Midlands.
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.
Primary Care Trusts were abolished in April 2013.
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