One said: "It was Liberal Democrat policy to get rid of PCTs in the first place.
At least three PCTs in England said they had seen shortages in cervical screening test kits this year.
The report, from Incomes Data Services (IDS), was based on data from around 90% of all NHS Trusts and Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) in England.
The top performing PCTs in the country, he said, would be given "more freedom and flexibility" after 2010-11 to innovate.
From April next year, CCGs will gradually gain control of £60bn of NHS funds as they replace PCTs in commissioning and paying for treatments on behalf of patients.
But this picture is not universal: as David Flory's report on financial quarter one showed, three PCTs in north London are projecting a combined deficit of £56m this year.
This means the NCSP now covers a quarter of primary care trusts (PCTs) in England, encouraging under-25s to be tested for the disease - often called the silent infection because some people may have no symptoms.
To understand the key issues for field nursing in developing their public health role within five primary care trusts (PCTs) in Merseyside, in the North West of England.
This study quantifies variation in these estimates across 39 PCTs in the London and South East Coast strategic health authorities, and explores their precision, possible confounding by age and bias due to death certificate only (DCO) registrations.
There are approximately 152 PCTs in England.
