NHS West Midlands


NHS West Midlands was a strategic health authority 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.

General information

NHS West Midlands 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 with a population of approximately 5.4 million. The region has a total of 46 NHS organisations: 19 hospital trusts ; six mental health trusts ; 17 primary care trusts; three community provider trusts and one 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.

Full list of NHS organisations in the West Midlands

Primary care trusts

s were abolished in April 2013.
  1. Birmingham East and North Primary Care Trust
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  1. Community provider organisations

  2. Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
  3. Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust
  4. Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

    Acute trusts

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  1. Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust
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  1. Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust
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  1. Mental health trusts

  2. Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
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  1. Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

  2. Ambulance trusts

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