Bournemouth and Poole Primary Care Trust

The purpose of the Bournemouth and Poole PCT is to:

• engage with local people to improve health and well-being
• commission a comprehensive, fair and impartial range of high-quality, responsive and efficient services, within allocated resources
• directly provide high-quality responsive and efficient services where this gives best-value.

Our interim headquarters are in Poole (see home page for contact details) and we also have a base in Bournemouth.  There are plans to bring central functions together on one site as soon as a suitable location can be found. The combined population across the Bournemouth and Poole conurbation is 343,000. The Primary Care Trust employs 1100 people.  As many of these are part-time, the number of whole time equivalent staff is 752.  

Click to view our management arrangements (organisation chart)

The Primary Care Trust is also responsible for family health services in Bournemouth and Poole including:

• GP practices: 44
• Dental practices: 68
• Community pharmacies: 67
• Opticians: 63
• Ophthalmic premises: 21
• Domiciliary ophthalmic practitioners: 7