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Gloucestershire Primary Care Trust was formed on 1st October 2006 and replaced the three former Primary Care Trusts in Gloucestershire (Cheltenham and Tewkesbury PCT, Cotswold and Vale PCT and West Gloucestershire PCT). The organisation serves a population of approximately 600,000 and covers the following district council areas: Cotswold, Cheltenham, Forest of Dean, Gloucester, Tewkesbury Borough and Stroud. Under the trust's care is 83 GP Practices and 11 community hospitals. It also provides a range of community services such as podiatry, speech and language therapy, occupational therapy, district nursing and health visiting.
The Cheltenham & Tewkesbury Primary Care Trust covered Cheltenham, Tewkesbury, Prestbury, Winchcombe and Bishops Cleeve.
Under the trust there were 13 GP practices which served residents in Cheltenham, Leckhampton and Charlton Kings with 3 practices which served residents across Prestbury, Bishops Cleeve and Winchcombe.
2006: Cheltenham and Tewkesbury Primary Care Trust scored fair for quality of services. It could not achieve an overall score of good for quality of services
because it received a score of partly met in existing national targets. The
score was based on the results in the following areas:
| Component |
Results |
| Assessment of compliance with core standards |
Fully Met |
| Existing national targets |
Partly Met |
| New national targets |
Excellent |
| Review of substance misuse |
Excellent |
| Review of tobacco control |
Excellent |
| Review of adult community mental health services |
Good |
Cheltenham and Tewkesbury Primary Care Trust was assessed against 20 of the 21
existing national target indicators. These indicators are measures that capture how a particular aspect of a
service should be provided. It achieved 13 indicators,
underachieved 5 indicators and failed to meet 2 indicators.
Cheltenham and Tewkesbury Primary Care Trust was given a score of excellent for new
national targets.
It was assessed against 27 of the 28
new national target indicators. It achieved 26 indicators, underachieved 1
indicator and failed to meet 0 indicators.
Cheltenham and Tewkesbury Primary Care Trust was scored fair for use of resources. The score for use of resources is based on how well an organisation in the NHS
manages its finances. This could include how it plans and reports on its financial
performance, how it monitors the money it spends, and how it makes sure that the
services it offers to patients represent good value for money.
2005: In 2005 the original Cheltenham & Tewkesbury Primary Care Trust received a performance rating of three stars, which means that it achieved the highest levels of performance in all key targets.
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KEY TARGETS :
Access to a GP within 2 working days
Access to a primary care professional within 1 working day
Reducing drug misuse
Elective patients waiting less than 9 months
Financial stability
Increasing numbers of smokers who quit at 4 week follow-up with the NHS smoking cessation services
Patients waiting less than 17 weeks for a first outpatient appointment following GP written referral
Patients waiting less than 4 hours in A&E from arrival, to admission, transfer or discharge
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