Healthcare in Bedfordshire
Healthcare in Bedfordshire is the responsibility of Bedfordshire and Luton Integrated Care Systems. History From 1947 to 1965 NHS services in Bedfordshire were managed by the North-West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board. In 1974 the Boards were abolished and replaced by regional health authorities. Bedfordshire came under the North West Thames RHA. Regions were reorganised in 1996 and Bedfordshire came under the Anglia and Oxford Regional Health Authority. Bedfordshire had an Area Health Authority from 1974 until 1982 when it was divided into two district health authorities: North and South. in 1993 these were reunited. Regional health authorities were reorganised and renamed strategic health authorities in 2002. Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire was under Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire SHA. In 2006 regions were again reorganised and Bedfordshire came under NHS East of England until that was abolished in 2013. There were two primary care trusts for the area: Luton and Bedfordshire. In July 2022, a further reorganisation resulted in Befordshire coming under the current Integrated Care System. Sustainability and transformation plan Milton Keynes, Bedfordshire and Luton formed a sustainability and transformation plan area in March 2016 with Pauline Philip, the Chief Executive of Luton and Dunstable University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, as its leader