A derived field providing the primary care trust responsible for the patient, based on 2002-03 PCT boundaries. Commissioning responsibility for individual patients rests with the primary care trust (PCT) with whom the patient is registered. This means that patients with a GP in one PCT area may reside in a neighbouring or other area but remain the responsibility of the PCT with whom their GP of registration is associated. PCTs are also responsible for non-registered patients who are resident within their boundaries. The PCT structure used by this field was superseded in 2006 - the code representing the PCTs that were in place after this restructure can be found in the field PCTCODE06.

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