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Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board is one of 7 Local Health Boards (LHBs) in Wales that plan and deliver healthcare in their areas.

The LHB was created on 1 October 2009 following the reorganisation of NHS Wales when 22 LHBs and 7 regional trusts were abolished. It is the result of a merger of the North East Wales NHS Trust, the North West Wales NHS Trust, and the six Local Health Boards. The 2009 reform abolished the two-tiered system of trusts and LHBs. As a result GP and other primary care services, hospitals, mental health services and community care, would be all be coordinated through one organisation for the first time in Wales.

The LHB is the largest in Wales terms of population and geography. It has a population of approximately 678,500 people in its area, 23 % of the population of Wales. It is reponsible for the provision of acute and community hospitals and for the coordination of GP services, community health care and NHS dentists, pharmacies and opticians.

The LHB is named after Betsi Cadwaladr, a Welsh nurse born in Bala, north Wales in 1789. Cadwaladr woked alongside Florence Nightingale nursing casualties of the Crimean war.

Major Hospitals
There are three district general hospitals under its management:


 * Wrexham Maelor Hospital
 * Ysbyty Glan Clwyd
 * Ysbyty Gwynedd