My honourable friend the Minister of State for Public Health (Caroline Flint) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.
The Government have set public service agreement targets to address geographical inequalities in life expectancy, cancer, heart disease, stroke and related diseases. The targets aim to see faster progress compared to the average in the “fifth of areas with the worst health and deprivation indicators”. Achievement of the targets will be assessed on the outcomes for this group in 2010. The local authorities and primary care trusts which make these areas are the Health Inequalities Spearhead Group.
The Spearhead group is defined on local authority data and consists of 70 local authorities that are then mapped on to primary care trust boundaries.
Revised primary care trusts boundaries were announced on 19 May. Following the reconfiguration, the Spearhead group list has been refreshed to take account of the new primary care trust boundaries. The list of 70 Spearhead group local authorities (that has not changed) and the revised list of 62 primary care trusts that map to them is as follows:
Local Authorities in the Spearhead Group Primary Care Trusts in the Spearhead Group Barking and Dagenham Barnsley Barrow-in-Furness Birmingham Blackburn with Darwen Blackpool Blyth Valley Bolsover Bolton Bradford Burnley Bury Carlisle Chester-le-Street Corby Coventry Derwentside Doncaster Easington Gateshead Greenwich Hackney Halton Hammersmith and Fulham Haringey Hartlepool Hyndburn Islington Kingston upon Hull, City of Knowsley Lambeth Leicester Lewisham Lincoln Liverpool Manchester Middlesbrough Newcastle upon Tyne Newham North East Lincolnshire North Tyneside Nottingham Nuneaton and Bedworth Oldham Pendle Preston Redcar and Cleveland Rochdale Rossendale Rotherham Salford Sandwell Sedgefield South Tyneside Southwark St. Helens Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Sunderland Tameside Tamworth Tower Hamlets Wakefield Walsall Wansbeck Warrington Wear Valley Wigan Wirral Wolverhampton Ashton, Leigh and Wigan PCT Barking & Dagenham PCT Barnsley PCT Birmingham East & North PCT Blackburn with Darwen PCT Blackpool PCT Bolton PCT Bradford PCT Bury PCT Central Lancashire PCT City and Hackney PCT County Durham PCT Coventry PCT Cumbria PCT Derbyshire County PCT Doncaster PCT East Lancashire PCT Gateshead PCT Greenwich PCT Halton & St Helens PCT Hammersmith & Fulham PCT Haringey PCT Hartlepool PCT Heart of Birmingham PCT Hull Teaching PCT Islington PCT Knowsley PCT Lambeth PCT Leicester City PCT Lewisham PCT Lincolnshire PCT Liverpool PCT Manchester PCT Middlesbrough PCT Newcastle PCT Newham PCT North East Lincolnshire PCT North Tyneside PCT Northamptonshire County PCT Northumberland Care Trust Nottingham PCT Oldham PCT Redcar & Cleveland PCT Rochdale PCT Rotherham PCT Salford PCT Sandwell PCT South Birmingham PCT South Tyneside PCT Southwark PCT Staffordshire County PCT Stockton-on-Tees Teaching PCT Stoke on Trent PCT Sunderland PCT Tameside & Glossop PCT Tower Hamlets PCT Wakefield PCT Walsall PCT Warrington PCT Warwickshire PCT Wirral PCT Wolverhampton PCT