In 1974 the boards were abolished and replaced by regional health authorities, with the whole of Wiltshire coming under the Wessex RHA.
Bath, Swindon and Wiltshire formed a sustainability and transformation plan area in March 2016,[3] chaired from December 2019 by Stephanie Elsy, a former leader of Southwark Council.
[5] At that time the combined CCG had an annual budget of £1.3 billion and served a population of 934,000 across an area of 1,511 square miles (3,910 km2).
[6] Its chief executive was Tracey Cox,[7] formerly a manager at Bath and North East Somerset Primary Care Trust and then the corresponding CCG.
[8] Swindon CCG agreed in June 2015 to fund a community therapy team at the Prospect Hospice, providing occupational and physiotherapy at home, in order to reduce pressure on hospital beds.
Consequently it capped the amount of planned care delivered in hospitals, limited the number of funded procedures, and recovered money from drug companies.
[19] SEQOL requested to end their involvement without completing the 12 months' notice provided in the contract, and from October 2016, Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust were responsible for these services.
SEQOL's staff returned to employment by the hospital or the council, and the company intended to cease trading.
[25] Community hospitals at Chippenham, Devizes, Melksham, Marlborough (Savernake), Trowbridge and Warminster are run since 2016 by Wiltshire Health and Care LLP.