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Secondary care (sometimes termed acute health care) can be either elective care or emergency care and providers may be in the public or private sector, but the majority of secondary care happens in NHS owned facilities. The Care Quality Commission is an executive non-departmental public body of the Department of Health and Social Care. It was ...
NHS trust. An NHS trust is an organisational unit within the National Health Services of England and Wales, generally serving either a geographical area or a specialised function (such as an ambulance service). In any particular location there may be several trusts involved in the different aspects of providing healthcare to the local population.
Primary and secondary care are integrated in Scotland. Unlike in England, NHS trusts do not exist in Scotland. Instead, healthcare is provided through fourteen regional health boards. These health boards are further subdivided into Health and Social Care Partnerships. The Scottish Ambulance Service is the pan-Scotland board responsible for ...
NHS secondary care (urgent and emergency care, ambulances, elective care, reconfigurations, special measures regime); hospital reconfigurations; secondary care workforce (50,000 nurses, supply/education/training, leadership, pay and pensions, industrial relations); winter planning; NHS Long Term Plan; NHS England mandate and business plan ...
From April 2013 a new system was established as a result of the Health and Social Care Act 2012. The NHS budget is largely in the hands of a new body, NHS England. NHS England commissions specialist services and primary care. Acute services and community care are commissioned by local clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) led by GPs. From April ...
Health and Social Care ( HSC) is the publicly funded healthcare system in Northern Ireland. Although having been created separately to the National Health Service (NHS), [1] it is nonetheless considered a part of the overall national health service in the United Kingdom. The Northern Ireland Executive through its Department of Health is ...
Health care, or healthcare, is the improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, amelioration or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people. Health care is delivered by health professionals and allied health fields. Medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, midwifery, nursing, optometry ...
Minister of State for Health (UK) The Minister of State for Health and Secondary Care is a mid-level position in the Department of Health and Social Care in the British government. The position is currently held by Andrew Stephenson MP since 13 November 2023. The minister often deputises for the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care ...