What do Primary Care Trusts Do?
Broadly speaking, all Primary Care Trusts have three main aims. These are: • to improve the health of local people and address inequalities by ensuring that everyone has equal access to high quality health care; • to commission (or buy) the best hospital and community services for local people when and where they are needed; • to work to continually improve and develop the services provided by GPs and their teams, by district nurses and health visitors and by pharmacists, dentists and optometrists. As a Teaching Primary Care Trust, Sunderland TPCT has a further aim – to develop excellence in learning across the Trust and to support every one of our staff to reach their full potential in a working environment that they enjoy.
