They include acute trusts, mental health, community and ambulance trusts.

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust is an acute trust based in Oxfordshire, south east England, providing general and specialist services.

Urban are described as driven by acute trusts, whereas rural are much more primary care driven.

Another part of Hampshire's integrated care approach has been working in partnership with acute trusts.

The programme launched in October 2008 in 24 acute trusts across the North West of England in five clinical areas (see below) selected for relevance to the local population:

We have started with England's largest acute trusts, including those linked to medical schools.

(The last two work with several acute trusts, and we haven't included those here.)

Peninsula in Devon and Cornwall and Hull York Medical School work with more than one acute trust.

NHS Bath and North East Somerset contract in Consultants time from 2 local acute trusts to provide specialist local outpatient service.

Using official figures, it assesses how many deaths actually occurred at an acute trust compared with how many were predicted given the types of patients treated.