List of district health authorities in England and Wales
AHA 1974-82 District Health Authority 1982 Local Government Areas Changes
Berkshire , Buckinghamshire East Berkshire Bracknell , Slough , Windsor and Maidenhead , part of South Bucks ( part formerly in Slough Rural District ) Part of Berkshire District , Buckinghamshire District 1993
Berkshire , Oxfordshire West Berkshire Newbury , Reading , Wokingham , part of South Oxfordshire ( Henley area ) Part of Berkshire District , Oxfordshire District 1993
Buckinghamshire Aylesbury : renamed Aylesbury Vale 1982 Aylesbury Vale Part of Buckinghamshire District 1993
Buckinghamshire Milton Keynes Milton Keynes Part of Buckinghamshire District 1993
Buckinghamshire Wycombe Chiltern , Wycombe , part of South Bucks ( Beaconsfield area ) Part of Buckinghamshire District 1993
Northamptonshire Kettering Corby , East Northamptonshire , Kettering , Wellingborough Part of Northamptonshire District 1994
Northamptonshire Northampton Daventry , Northampton , South Northamptonshire Part of Northamptonshire District 1994
Oxfordshire Oxfordshire Cherwell , Oxford , Vale of White Horse , West Oxfordshire , part of South Oxfordshire ( Bullingdon , Thame and Wallingford areas )
Authorities in Oxford Region -- District Authorities created 1982
Eight district health authorities were formed in the Wessex Region in 1982 , replacing four Area Health Authorities :
A district health authority was an administrative unit of the National Health Service in England and Wales from 1982 to 2000. Both the configuration and the responsibilities were altered several times during that period. Area Health Authorities, which existed from 1974 to 1982, were an intermediate tier created by the 1974 reorganisation. The most common complaint in evidence about the reorganisation of the NHS made to the Royal Commission on the National Health Service was that it added an extra and unnecessary tier of management.