South East Essex Primary Care Trust (PCT) is a new organisation launched on 1 October 2006, bringing together the former Castle Point and Rochford PCT and Southend-on-Sea PCT.
This new, larger organisation will be looking after the healthcare needs of around 343,000 across a total of 98.1 square miles of the most urban and rural parts of the county.
Castle Point and Rochford & Southend-on-Sea PCTs had a long history of working together before merging. The new PCT will continue to work with Southend Hospital, plus all the local councils.