North West London Section Primary Care
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    The Strategic Health Authority (SHA)  
 


Roles and Responsibilities


The Strategic Health Authority (SHA)

Role

The North-West London Strategic Health Authority serves the eight PCTs that are partners to these agreements. Their role is to monitor standards of all aspects of functioning of the Primary Care Trusts, to facilitate joined-up working between PCTs and to advocate for the sector in other parts of government. They therefore must approve the agreements of this manual.

Responsibilities

to challenge the agreements of this manual where they seem inappropriate and negotiate new understandings
to facilitate agreements between partners and broker resolution of conflicts
to facilitate synchronous working of other cross-sectoral functions
to advocate on behalf of the Consortium in other places to understand local realities, rectify inequities, solve problems and take advantage of new opportunities
to critique progress and facilitate useful comparison with other places.

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