Who we are

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The Health Board is the largest health organisation in Wales, with a budget of £1.99 billion and a workforce of more than 20,000. The Health Board is an integrated health system that strives for excellent compassionate care delivered in partnership with the public and other statutory and third sector organisations.

We are responsible for the delivery of health care services to more than 700,000 people across the six counties of North Wales (Anglesey, Gwynedd, Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire and Wrexham). This includes the provision of primary, community and mental health, as well as general hospital services. In primary care settings the Health Board delivers NHS care through a combination of independent contractors and directly delivered services across North Wales.

This network of primary care services covers 96 medical practices (“GP practices”), 83 dental and orthodontic practices, 69 optometry/optician practices and 147 community pharmacies.

In community settings, the Health Board delivers a wide range of community NHS services including community nursing, health visiting, physiotherapy, and palliative care, through a network of health centres, clinics, community team bases and 16 community hospitals, coordinated across 14 localities. Community mental health services are delivered from bases across North Wales, supported by inpatient mental health units across the region.

The Health Board also delivers primary, community and mental health services to the prison population within His Majesty’s Prison Berwyn in Wrexham. General hospital services are provided from three main sites (Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor, Glan Clwyd Hospital in Bodelwyddan and Wrexham Maelor Hospital), with some surgical services also being delivered in Abergele and Llandudno.

Where NHS care cannot be provided within North Wales, such as for certain rare conditions or highly specialist services, the Health Board works with other NHS providers in Wales and England, to ensure that patients can still access the specialist treatments they need.

We are also responsible, in partnership, for improving the health and wellbeing of local people through activities such as our successful vaccination programmes and school health services.