List of NHS institutions and organisations

, this article concerns the current English public health service.

Institutions and Organisations relating to the National Health Service (NHS) in England include the following:

Administrative

 * Strategic Health Authorities (SHAs), which oversee all NHS operations in an area.
 * Special Health Authorities which provide services across England, including:
 * National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
 * NHS Direct, providing a national service to the public
 * NHS Business Services Authority managing the NHS Pension Scheme
 * NHS Professionals Special Health Authority

Direct healthcare providers

 * NHS Trusts, comprising:
 * Primary Care Trusts (PCTs), which administer primary care and public health, providing and commissioning healthcare for their populations. See List of Primary Care Trusts in England
 * NHS Hospital Trusts. 290 organisations administer hospitals, treatment centres and specialist care in about 1,600 NHS hospitals (many trusts maintain between 2 and 8 different hospital sites).
 * NHS hospitals administered by the above - often more than one hospital per Trust.
 * NHS Ambulance Services Trusts
 * NHS Foundation Trusts - presently all of these are hospitals, but could include PCTs in future.
 * NHS Care Trusts
 * NHS Mental Health Services Trusts

NHS programmes

 * Connecting for Health, the NHS' IT/ICT organisation.

Organisations associated with the NHS

 * NHS Confederation

Department of Health bodies

 * Executive Agencies of the Department of Health:
 * NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency
 * Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)

Non-departmental bodies

 * Non-Departmental Public Bodies (NDPBs), including:
 * Healthcare Commission
 * Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence

Healthcare
The following bodies and organisations are important contributors to healthcare in the United Kingdom, but are not structurally part of the NHS.


 * General Medical Council
 * Nursing and Midwifery Council
 * General Dental Council
 * British Medical Association
 * Royal College of Nursing
 * Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
 * Royal College of Surgeons of England