Wolverhampton City PCT

Welcome to Wolverhampton City Primary Care Trust

This website is designed to tell you about our work and the services we provide to improve health and well-being in the city of Wolverhampton. The site is continually updated and has many different areas of information which you can access, from corporate reports, to press releases, to how to stay healthy. If you have any comments regarding this site, please let us know via email.

Transforming Community Services - Changes to community, mental health and addiction services in Wolverhampton
Under the Government's requirements for the reshaping of the NHS, all Primary Care Trusts have been required to transfer their directly delivered patients' services to provider organisations by 1st April 2011.
In Wolverhampton, this means a change in management for more than 2,000 staff. Although in the vast majority of cases you will see the same staff, working from the same clinics and offices, and receive your care in the same place, we know that some changes in the coming months are inevitable.

Information about services will be provided on the websites of the two receiving organisations - the Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust for community health services and West Park Hospital, at http://www.royalwolverhamptonhospitals.nhs.uk/ - and Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation Trust for mental health services, Penn Hospital, addiction services and learning disability teams at http://www.bcpft.nhs.uk/.

For services remaining in the PCT, the Black Country Cluster has been formed. The Cluster was formally established on 1 April 2011 and is made up of four PCT's (Wolverhampton, Dudley, Walsall and Sandwell), click here to go to the Cluster website.

Latest News & Events

Continuing Healthcare (CHC)
We are asking for individuals or their representatives to notify Wolverhampton City Primary Care Trust in respect of previously un-assessed periods of time where there is evidence that they should have been assessed for eligibility for NHS Continuing Healthcare funding. The time periods and the deadlines for notifying Wolverhampton City Primary Care Trust are as follows:

Period	Deadline
1 April 2004 – 30 September 2007	30 September 2012
1 October 2007 – 31 March 2011	30 September 2012
1 April 2011 – 31 March 2012	31 March 2013

Individuals should contact the Continuing Healthcare Team at Wolverhampton City PCT (details below) for further information on how to notify the PCT of a request for assessment of eligibility. This notification should be given within the deadlines above. Some cases may be accepted after the dates outlined above if there are exceptional circumstances for doing so.

Rachel Carruthers t: 01902 443085 e: continuingcare@wolvespct.nhs.uk

Long Term Conditions - Developing a Cross-Government Strategy
The Department of Health (DH) is leading on the development of a cross-government long term conditions strategy. We know that long term conditions can affect many aspects of people’s lives, not just their health. So we want the strategy to set out a vision for how services such as health, social care, education, housing and others can work together to improve life chances and outcomes for people living with long term conditions.

This vision will cover helping to prevent or delay the onset of conditions, preventing deterioration of conditions and helping to develop joined up services to support people living with long term conditions. The strategy won’t cover specific detail of how services are delivered.

The DH are asking people to comment until 15 June 2012 on what should be in the strategy. They are not holding a formal consultation.

The aim is to publish the strategy by the end of 2012 and it will apply to England only. For more details, click here to go to the consultation page.

‘Be Clear on Cancer’ campaign
May and June will see Wolverhampton City Primary Care Trust raising awareness of oesophago-gastric (gullet and stomach) cancers as part of the national ‘Be Clear on Cancer’ campaign.About 80 people each year get one of these cancers in Wolverhampton but fewer than half survive 12 months after diagnosis. The campaign aims to encourage people to get help much earlier. Events will be taking place across Wolverhampton during the campaign, click here to find your nearest venue and for more information.

Expert Patient Programme - Course Dates Available for May/June 2012
The Expert Patient Programme helps people with a long term condition to maintain their health and improve their quality of life. It is a free course that helps you to take control of your condition. Click here for more details

Equality Act 2010 - the duty to publish equality objectives
By 6th April 2012 public organisations, including NHS Trusts, are required to publish equality objectives which will demonstrate how the duties in s.149 of the Act – the public sector equality duty – will be fulfilled. Click here to find out more about how Wolverhampton City Primary Care Trust is meeting its public sector equality duty

Page last updated: 3 May 2012