The external bodies that monitor the PCT are:

• Audit Commission
  

• Commission for Health Improvement
  
  
• Confidential Inquiry into Suicides and Homicides
  
  
• Gloucestershire County Council Overview & Scrutiny Committee
  
  
• Coroner's Offices
  
  
• Directorate of Counter Fraud Services
  
  
• District Audit
  
  
• Environmental Health offices
  
  
• General Medical Council
  
  
• Health and Safety Executive
  
  
• Health Service Ombudsman
  
  
• Health Professions Council
  
  
• Home Office Mental Health Unit
  
  
• Medicines Devices Agency (MDA)
  
  
• Medicines Control Agency
  
  
• Mental Health Act Commission
  
  
• National Clinical Assessment Authority
  
  
• National Patient Safety Agency
  
  
• NHS Estates
  
  
• NHS Litigation Authority
  
  
• Nursing and Midwifery Council
  
  
• Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire Strategic Health Authority
  
  
• National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse
  
  
• Home Office, Drugs Strategy Directorate
  (National Strategy)
  
  
• Department of Health
  (National Strategy)