Welcome to the West Hertfordshire Primary Care Trust (PCT) website
The 2008/09 Annual Report is also available to download as a pdf
West Hertfordshire PCT covers Dacorum, St Albans, Hertsmere,
Watford, Three Rivers and their surrounding villages.
This site gives you information about local health services, how to lead a healthy life, advice on how we can support you to give up smoking and details about how to contact our Patient Advice and Liaison Service. It also gives information on the actions we are taking to minimise inequalities in the delivery of our services.
High Calibre, Independent Chair required to lead the Interim Board of Hertfordshire Community Health Services
Primary Care Trusts are now focusing on commissioning health services for their local populations and are in the process of divesting their responsibility for being direct providers of services.
In Hertfordshire, the “Provider Services” of the PCTs are now an Arms Length Trading Organisation known as Hertfordshire Community Health Services, and are moving towards becoming a separate organisation in their own right.
 The future of the Hemel Birth Unit and related maternity services
Have your say
This consultation paper on the Hemel Birth Unit (HBU) has been prepared by NHS West Hertfordshire - the Primary Care Trust (PCT) for west Hertfordshire. The PCT has the responsibility for commissioning health services in the area, with other bodies, such as hospitals, providing the actual services. This means that the PCT is responsible for commissioning safe, high quality maternity services for women and their families
Delivering Same Sex Accommodation Action Plan September 2009
The PCT’s are committed to ensuring that all the providers within Hertfordshire deliver the commitment to eliminate mixed sex accommodation by December 2009. this plan sets out the overall approach being taken by the PCTs to ensure that all providers meet the commitment by the deadline.
Working in Partnership with the Voluntary Sector
 The Voluntary Sector (part of the Third Sector) plays an important role in promoting healthy lifestyles and supporting people to live healthy lives in their own homes through a variety of ways. West Hertfordshire Primary Care Trust and East and North Hertfordshire Primary Care Trust recognise this and are committed to working in partnership with the voluntary sector to provide alternative options to statutory and private sector services.
 The NHS Constitution establishes the principles and values of the NHS in England. It sets out rights to which patients, public and staff are entitled, and pledges which the NHS is committed to achieve, together with responsibilities which the public, patients and staff owe to one another to ensure that the NHS operates fairly and effectively.
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