South Central SHA

The total budget of NHS South Central is £5.8bn, which is used to provide primary and secondary healthcare services to the public. Helping to achieve this are more than 88,000 staff working throughout the local NHS – approximately 5% of the working population - making the NHS one of the largest employers in the South Central region.

NHS South Central encompasses:

Nine Primary Care Trusts (including a single organisation for the Isle of Wight) providing acute hospital, mental health, community, primary care and ambulance services.

• A single ambulance service covering Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Hampshire 
• Nine Acute Trusts providing secondary and tertiary care (including four NHS Foundation Trusts) 
• Three Mental Health Trusts, two of which are Foundation Trusts 
• A Learning Disability Trust (Oxfordshire Learning Disability Trust).

South Central Ambulance Service NHS Trust is the single ambulance trust covering the NHS South Central region, with the exception of the Isle of Wight.

Isle of Wight NHS PCT commissions and provides acute hospital, mental health, community, primary care and ambulance services.

PCTs in South Central SHA

Oxfordshire PCT
Buckinghamshire PCT
Milton Keynes PCT
Berkshire West PCT
Berkshire East PCT
Hampshire PCT
Southampton City PCT
Portsmouth City Teaching PCT
Isle of Wight PCT

Across NHS South Central there are approximately (as of September 2008):

• 32,045 nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff
• 8,996 scientific, therapeutic and technical staff
• 3,056 healthcare scientists
• 9,522 healthcare Assistants and other support staff
• 1,703 ambulance staff
• 3,018 GPs
• 7,181 medical and dental staff including Specialists, Consultants and Registrars working in Hospital, Public Health and Community Health Services.

A typical day in NHS South Central:

129 babies born
91 people die
Over 60,000 people see a GP
5,242 people see a dentist
2,079 people see an optician
2,739 people attend A&E
684 ambulances attend an emergency call
7,711 people attend an outpatient appointment
9,626 people receive treatment in hospital as an inpatient.