Type of Trust
NHS Primary Care Trust NHS Primary Care Trust An NHS primary care trust is a type of NHS trust, part of the National Health Service in England. PCTs commission primary, community and secondary care from providers. Until 31 may2011 they also provided community services directly. Collectively PCT are responsible for spending around 80% of the...
NHS Region
NHS London NHS London NHS London is a strategic health authority of the National Health Service in England. It operates in the London region, which is coterminous with the local government office region....
Location
Enfield London Borough of Enfield The London Borough of Enfield is the most northerly London borough and forms part of Outer London. It borders the London Boroughs of Barnet, Haringey and Waltham Forest...  (Greater London Greater London Greater London is the top-level administrative division of England covering London. It was created in 1965 and spans the City of London, including Middle Temple and Inner Temple, and the 32 London boroughs. This territory is coterminate with the London Government Office Region and the London... )
Trust Details
Last annual budget	£400m. (year ending Mar 2008)
Employees	730
Chair	Carolyn Berkeley
Chief Executive	Stephen Conroy
Links
Website	Trust website
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Enfield Primary Care NHS Trust is an English National Health Service Primary Care Trust

NHS Primary Care Trust

An NHS primary care trust is a type of NHS trust, part of the National Health Service in England. PCTs commission primary, community and secondary care from providers. Until 31 may2011 they also provided community services directly. Collectively PCT are responsible for spending around 80% of the...

 (PCT) responsible for health care in Enfield

London Borough of Enfield

The London Borough of Enfield is the most northerly London borough and forms part of Outer London. It borders the London Boroughs of Barnet, Haringey and Waltham Forest...

, in North London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

.

The Trust is co-terminous with Enfield Borough, having, like other London PCTs escaped reorganisation in the 2006 reconfiguration of primary care in the UK. It comes within the remit of NHS London

NHS London

NHS London is a strategic health authority of the National Health Service in England. It operates in the London region, which is coterminous with the local government office region....

 Strategic Health Authority.

Two NHS hospitals are located in the Trust's area: Chase Farm Hospital

Chase Farm Hospital

Chase Farm Hospital is a hospital in Enfield, north London, run by Barnet and Chase Farm NHS Hospitals Trust as part of the British National Health Service.The oldest part of the hospital was formerly part of a children's home...

 in the north, and North Middlesex University Hospital

North Middlesex Hospital

The North Middlesex University Hospital, known locally as North Mid, is a District General Hospital in Edmonton, in the London Borough of Enfield, within the area served by the Enfield Primary Care NHS Trust.- History :...

 in the south-east. This relative 'overprovision' of hospital facilities in the area, especially given the proximity of the larger London teaching hospital

Teaching hospital

A teaching hospital is a hospital that provides clinical education and training to future and current doctors, nurses, and other health professionals, in addition to delivering medical care to patients...

s, is an underlying factor in the financial problems which have troubled the Trust. The Trust is seeking to assist reconfiguration of facilities, including a transfer of provision from hospitals to the community, in line with the policy of the Blair

Tony Blair

Anthony Charles Lynton Blair is a former British Labour Party politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to 27 June 2007. He was the Member of Parliament for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007...

 and Brown

Gordon Brown

James Gordon Brown is a British Labour Party politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party from 2007 until 2010. He previously served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Labour Government from 1997 to 2007...

 governments. However since 2006 local newspapers, politicians and MPs have attacked plans to reduce services at Chase Farm. which has impeded the proposed changes. In 2008 Enfield Council referred the changes to an Independent Review Panel, which broadly endorsed them in its report of September 2008.

The Trust also faces significant health inequalities in its area due to demographic differences. The high proportion of ethnic minority populations, and poorer quality of housing, in the south and east of Enfield means that life expectancy

Life expectancy

Life expectancy is the expected number of years of life remaining at a given age. It is denoted by ex, which means the average number of subsequent years of life for someone now aged x, according to a particular mortality experience...

in these areas is up to 8 years shorter than for the wealthier area in north-west Enfield.

The Trust holds monthly board meetings which are open for the public to attend.