About NHS Norfolk

NHS Norfolk is a Primary Care Trust (PCT), set up on October 1st 2006, serving the majority of Norfolk and a population of around 757,000 people.

In 2011 we joined with NHS Great Yarmouth and Waveney to form a “PCT Cluster”. Whilst each PCT remains a separate statutory body, we have one team of staff, one management team and one Board of Directors.

Our PCT Cluster is known as NHS Norfolk and Waveney; we serve just under a million people and have a combined budget in excess of £1.64 billion.

Our main role is to commission health care - planning which NHS services are appropriate for our area and ensuring they are available to patients. This means agreeing contracts with GPs, dentists, pharmacists, opticians, hospitals, community health and mental health trusts and also voluntary or independent organisations.

From April 2013, PCTs will be replaced by locally-focused Clinical Commissioning Groups, led by doctors and nurses.

Most people only come into contact with the NHS when they need to see a GP, nurse, dentist, optician or pharmacist.

However, many patients also need care in hospital or from a community clinician, such as community nurse or podiatrist. The main NHS organisations in our area are:

• Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust runs local community hospitals and provides many community services
• Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
• The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King’s Lynn NHS Foundation Trust
• James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

This interactive map can help you find local GP surgeries and hospitals

View NHS Norfolk and Waveney locations in a larger map

Vital Signs are a measure of PCT performance at a national and local level. These accompany the annual Operating Framework released by the Department of Health and help us to plan our commissioning programme around key priority areas. NHS Norfolk Vital Signs performance for 2010/11.