Herefordshire Council Information
Herefordshire Council is the local government authority for the county of Herefordshire in England. It is a unitary authority.
It is a relatively new council, formed on 1 April 1998 following the split of Hereford and Worcester back into two separate counties.
It is currently run by Conservatives. It has adopted the Leader and Cabinet constitutional model. The current Leader is Cllr Roger Phillips, who has appointed a cabinet of 9 other councillors, each with a separate portfolio of Council activity, for which they take political responsibility. The Council administers the County from a number of scattered office locations, but its primary address is the hub of its managerial and democratic activity at Brockington, 35 Hafod Road, Hereford HR1 1SH.
Herefordshire leads the UK in the way it brings health and local government together in a uniquely strong partnership to deliver improved public services. In early 2008, Herefordshire Council and NHS Herefordshire became the first local authority and primary care trust to form a new kind of partnership. It was based on a shared vision to work together and achieve efficient, excellent and value for money services to improve the life chances, quality of life and health and wellbeing of people in Herefordshire.
A single chief executive leads both organisations and there is also a joint management team and several joined up teams and services, which work as one organisation to plan, purchase, design and deliver care around people's individual needs close to where they live.
There is a single corporate plan with shared targets, and new systems and new ways of working to achieve improved performance across the council and the primary care trust. They operate out of a single corporate headquarters and are bringing around 1600 council and primary care trust staff together in one building to create a single working environment, enabling still more integration, improving services and cutting administration costs. Moving forward, Herefordshire Council, NHS Herefordshire and Hereford Hospitals NHS Trust are discussing how they could save many millions of pounds a year through sharing several central functions and investing the savings back into protecting essential services for the most vulnerable members of the community.
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Coordinates: 52°03′11″N 2°41′38″W / 52.053°N 2.694°W
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