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Changes to NHS Continuing Healthcare Funding

The rules around NHS continuing Healthcare funding changed on 1 October 2007. This is to make it easier for people to find out if they are eligible to have their care paid for by the National Health Service (NHS).
Full details on Healthcare funding are available here

The Primary Care Trust, or PCT, is responsible for providing and overseeing community based health services in the borough.

These include family doctors, dentists, pharmacists and opticians; district nurses, health visitors, school nurses, podiatrists, speech and language therapists, audiologists and occupational therapists, as well as many more.

The PCT also commissions and pays for all the specialist services which people need, such as hospital and mental health services.

We are responsible for taking a lead on improving the health of every one of Oldham’s 227,000 people, encouraging and promoting healthy eating and exercise, and helping people manage long term health problems.

But it’s not just people we care for! The PCT is working with its partners to ensure Oldham’s £100m LIFT scheme delivers up to ten brand new state of the art health centres over the next 20 years. We have also been closely involved in the development of other new health facilities in the borough, such as the £2.3M Moorside medical centrewhich houses pharmacy, clinics for young people, health visiting, immunisation and vaccination, podiatry, orthoptics as well as other services.

Putting people – public, patients and our dedicated staff – at the heart of what we do gives us the best chance to create the 21 st century health service which Oldham needs – and deserves.

£20m integrated care centre - watch a fly through of the proposed new town centre building, care centre video (4Mb requires Quicktime).

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