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Department of Health and Social Care

Index Department of Health and Social Care

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) is a department of Her Majesty's Government, responsible for government policy on health and adult social care matters in England, along with a few elements of the same matters which are not otherwise devolved to the Scottish Government, Welsh Government or Northern Ireland Executive. [1]

123 relations: Abortion, Antimicrobial resistance, Ara Darzi, Baron Darzi of Denham, Bacteria, Balliol College, Oxford, Blackfriars Bridge, British government departments, British Medical Association, Budget of the United Kingdom, Care Quality Commission, Caroline Dinenage, Chief Medical Officer (United Kingdom), Chief Nursing Officer (United Kingdom), Chief scientific officer, Chris Wormald, Christopher Kelly (civil servant), Clinical commissioning group, Clostridium difficile (bacteria), David Nicholson (civil servant), Department of Health (Northern Ireland), Department of Health and Social Security, Department of Social Security (United Kingdom), Devolution, Elephant and Castle, Embryology, Executive agency, Fertilisation, Financial crisis of 2007–2008, Genetics, Genomics England, Governance of England, Government of the United Kingdom, Graham Hart, Hannibal House, Health, Health and Social Care Act 2012, Health and Social Care Directorates, Health care in the United Kingdom, Health department, Health Education England, Health in the United Kingdom, Health Research Authority, House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Lords, Hugh Taylor (civil servant), Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, Human genetics, Human Tissue Authority, Improving Access to Psychological Therapies, Jackie Doyle-Price, ..., James O'Shaughnessy, Baron O'Shaughnessy, Jane Cummings, Jeremy Hunt, John Tooke, Judicial review, Kenneth Stowe, Leeds, Local board of health, London, London Waterloo station, Medical Training Application Service, Medication, Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Metro Central Heights, Minister of State, Ministry of Health Act 1919, Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick, Modernising Medical Careers, Monitor (NHS), National Health Service (England), National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, National Support Teams, Nelson, Lancashire, NHS Blood and Transplant, NHS Business Services Authority, NHS Counter Fraud Authority, NHS Digital, NHS England, NHS Improvement, NHS Plan 2000, NHS Resolution, NHS Trust Development Authority, NHS Wales, Nigel Crisp, Baron Crisp, Non-departmental public body, Northern Ireland Assembly, Northern Ireland Executive, Order of the Bath, Outline of health sciences, Parliament of the United Kingdom, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Patricia Hewitt, Permanent Secretary, Personal health budgets, Poison, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Private finance initiative, Privy Council of the United Kingdom, Proton-pump inhibitor, Public Health England, Quango, Quarry Hill, Leeds, Richmond House, Royal Victorian Order, Sally Davies (doctor), Scottish Government, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Simon Stevens (NHS England), Skipton House, Social work, Stephen Barclay, Steve Brine, Sue Hill, Surrogacy, The Daily Telegraph, Una O'Brien, University of Oxford, Victoria, London, Welsh Government, Whitehall, Xenotransplantation, 2018 British cabinet reshuffle. Expand index (73 more) »

Abortion

Abortion is the ending of pregnancy by removing an embryo or fetus before it can survive outside the uterus.

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Antimicrobial resistance

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR or AR) is the ability of a microbe to resist the effects of medication that once could successfully treat the microbe.

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Ara Darzi, Baron Darzi of Denham

Ara Wardkes Darzi, Baron Darzi of Denham, (Արա Վարդգես Դարզի; born 7 May 1960) is an Armenian-British doctor and Labour politician.

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Bacteria

Bacteria (common noun bacteria, singular bacterium) is a type of biological cell.

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Balliol College, Oxford

Balliol College, founded in 1263,: Graduate Studies Prospectus - Last updated 17 Sep 08 is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England.

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Blackfriars Bridge

Blackfriars Bridge is a road and foot traffic bridge over the River Thames in London, between Waterloo Bridge and Blackfriars Railway Bridge, carrying the A201 road.

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British government departments

The Government of the United Kingdom exercises its executive authority through a number of government departments or departments of state.

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British Medical Association

The British Medical Association (BMA) is the professional association and registered trade union for doctors in the United Kingdom.

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Budget of the United Kingdom

The Autumn Budget of the British Government is an annual budget set by HM Treasury for the following financial year, with the revenues to be gathered by HM Revenue and Customs and the expenditures of the public sector, in compliance with government policy.

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Care Quality Commission

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is an executive non-departmental public body of the Department of Health and Social Care of the United Kingdom.

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Caroline Dinenage

Caroline Julia Dinenage (born 28 October 1971) is a British Conservative Party politician who was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Gosport at the 2010 general election.

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Chief Medical Officer (United Kingdom)

The Chief Medical Officer (CMO) is the most senior advisor on health matters in a government.

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Chief Nursing Officer (United Kingdom)

The Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) is the most senior advisor on nursing matters in a government.

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Chief scientific officer

A chief science officer (C.S.O.) is a position at the head of scientific research operations at organizations or companies performing significant scientific research projects.

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Chris Wormald

Sir Christopher Wormald KCB (born 30 October 1968) is a British civil servant, serving since 2016 as the Permanent Secretary at the Department of Health and Social Care, having previously served since 2012 in the same role at the Department for Education.

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Christopher Kelly (civil servant)

Sir Christopher William Kelly, KCB (born 18 August 1946) is a former senior British Civil Servant who was the Chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life and Chairman of the NSPCC.

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Clinical commissioning group

Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) are NHS organisations set up by the Health and Social Care Act 2012 to organise the delivery of NHS services in England.

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Clostridium difficile (bacteria)

Clostridium difficile (etymology and pronunciation), also known as C. difficile, C. diff, or sometimes CDF/cdf, is a species of Gram-positive spore-forming bacterium.

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David Nicholson (civil servant)

Sir David Nicholson, KCB, CBE is a public policy analyst and NHS manager who was Chief executive of NHS England.

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Department of Health (Northern Ireland)

The Department of Health (DoH, An Roinn Sláinte, Ulster-Scots: Männystrie o Poustie) is a devolved Northern Irish government department in the Northern Ireland Executive.

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Department of Health and Social Security

The Department of Health and Social Security (commonly known as the DHSS) was a ministry of the British government in existence for twenty years from 1968 until 1988, and was headed by the Secretary of State for Social Services.

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Department of Social Security (United Kingdom)

The Department of Social Security (DSS) is a defunct governmental agency in the United Kingdom.

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Devolution

Devolution is the statutory delegation of powers from the central government of a sovereign state to govern at a subnational level, such as a regional or local level.

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Elephant and Castle

The Elephant and Castle is an area around a major road junction in South London, England, in the London Borough of Southwark.

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Embryology

Embryology (from Greek ἔμβρυον, embryon, "the unborn, embryo"; and -λογία, -logia) is the branch of biology that studies the prenatal development of gametes (sex cells), fertilization, and development of embryos and fetuses.

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Executive agency

An executive agency is a part of a government department that is treated as managerially and budgetarily separate, to carry-out some part of the executive functions of the United Kingdom government, Scottish Government, Welsh Government or Northern Ireland Executive.

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Fertilisation

Fertilisation or fertilization (see spelling differences), also known as generative fertilisation, conception, fecundation, syngamy and impregnation, is the fusion of gametes to initiate the development of a new individual organism.

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Financial crisis of 2007–2008

The financial crisis of 2007–2008, also known as the global financial crisis and the 2008 financial crisis, is considered by many economists to have been the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s.

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Genetics

Genetics is the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in living organisms.

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Genomics England

Genomics England is a company set up and owned by the UK Department of Health to run the 100,000 Genomes Project, which aims to sequence 100,000 genomes from NHS patients with a rare disease and their families, and patients with cancer.

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Governance of England

There has not been a government of England since 1707 when the Kingdom of England ceased to exist as a sovereign state, as it merged with the Kingdom of Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain.

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Government of the United Kingdom

The Government of the United Kingdom, formally referred to as Her Majesty's Government, is the central government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

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Graham Hart

Graham Lloyd Hart (6 January 1906 – 18 April 1974) was an Australian politician and judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland.

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Hannibal House

Hannibal House is an icon of 1960s office architecture positioned above the Elephant and Castle shopping centre in Southwark, south London.

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Health

Health is the ability of a biological system to acquire, convert, allocate, distribute, and utilize energy with maximum efficiency.

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Health and Social Care Act 2012

The Health and Social Care Act 2012 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Health and Social Care Directorates

The Health and Social Care Directorates are a set of directorates of the Scottish Government.

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Health care in the United Kingdom

Health care in the United Kingdom is a devolved matter, with England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales each having their own systems of publicly funded healthcare, funded by and accountable to separate governments and parliaments, together with smaller private sector and voluntary provision.

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Health department

A health department or health ministry is a part of government which focuses on issues related to the general health of the citizenry.

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Health Education England

Health Education England (HEE) is an executive non-departmental public body of the Department of Health.

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Health in the United Kingdom

Health in the United Kingdom refers to the overall health of the population of the United Kingdom.

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Health Research Authority

The Health Research Authority (HRA) is an executive non-departmental public body of the Department of Health in the United Kingdom.

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House of Commons of the United Kingdom

The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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House of Lords

The House of Lords of the United Kingdom, also known as the House of Peers, is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Hugh Taylor (civil servant)

Sir Hugh Henderson Taylor, (born 22 March 1950) is a British former Permanent Secretary at the Department of Health and current Chair of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust.

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Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) is an executive non-departmental public body of the Department of Health in the United Kingdom.

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Human genetics

Human genetics is the study of inheritance as it occurs in human beings.

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Human Tissue Authority

The Human Tissue Authority (HTA) is an executive non-departmental public body of the Department of Health or the United Kingdom.

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Improving Access to Psychological Therapies

Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) is a National Health Service (England) initiative to provide more psychotherapy to the general population.

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Jackie Doyle-Price

Jacqueline Doyle-Price (born 5 August 1969) is a British Conservative Party politician who was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Thurrock in the May 2010 general election.

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James O'Shaughnessy, Baron O'Shaughnessy

James Richard O'Shaughnessy, Baron O'Shaughnessy (born 26 March 1976) is a British Conservative politician and member of the House of Lords.

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Jane Cummings

Jane Cummings is the Chief Nursing Officer, formerly at the Department of Health and now at NHS England In November 2013 she was interviewed about the demand for safe staffing levels in NHS hospitals and told ITV Daybreak: "The most important thing to do is to use evidence to determine what the staffing levels should be.

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Jeremy Hunt

Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt (born 1 November 1966) is a British Conservative Party politician serving as the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care since 2012 and Member of Parliament (MP) for South West Surrey since 2005.

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John Tooke

Sir John Edward Tooke, (born 4 March 1949) is the Head of the School of Life & Medical Sciences at University College, London.

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Judicial review

Judicial review is a process under which executive or legislative actions are subject to review by the judiciary.

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Kenneth Stowe

Sir Kenneth Ronald Stowe (17 July 1927 – 29 August 2015) was a senior British civil servant.

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Leeds

Leeds is a city in the metropolitan borough of Leeds, in the county of West Yorkshire, England.

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Local board of health

Local boards or local boards of health were local authorities in urban areas of England and Wales from 1848 to 1894.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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London Waterloo station

Waterloo station, also known as London Waterloo, is a central London terminus on the National Rail network in the United Kingdom, located in the Waterloo area of the London Borough of Lambeth.

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Medical Training Application Service

The Medical Training Application Service (MTAS, pronounced em-tass) was an on-line application system set up under the auspices of Modernising Medical Careers in 2007 and used for the selection of Foundation House Officers and Specialty Registrars, and allocating them to jobs in the UK.

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Medication

A medication (also referred to as medicine, pharmaceutical drug, or simply drug) is a drug used to diagnose, cure, treat, or prevent disease.

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Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is an executive agency of the Department of Health and Social Care in the United Kingdom which is responsible for ensuring that medicines and medical devices work and are acceptably safe.

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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) refers to a group of gram-positive bacteria that are genetically distinct from other strains of Staphylococcus aureus.

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Metro Central Heights

Metro Central Heights is a group of residential buildings in the London Borough of Southwark.

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Minister of State

Minister of State is a title borne by politicians or officials in certain countries governed under a parliamentary system.

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Ministry of Health Act 1919

This Act of Parliament established for the first time in the United Kingdom a Minister of Health.

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Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick

The Modern Records Centre (MRC) is the specialist archive service of the University of Warwick in Coventry, England, located adjacent to the Central Campus Library.

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Modernising Medical Careers

Modernising Medical Careers (MMC) is a programme for postgraduate medical training introduced in the United Kingdom in 2005.

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Monitor (NHS)

Monitor has been a part of NHS Improvement since 1 April 2016.

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National Health Service (England)

The National Health Service (NHS) is the publicly funded national healthcare system for England and one of the four National Health Services for each constituent country of the United Kingdom.

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National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is an executive non-departmental public body of the Department of Health in the United Kingdom, which publishes guidelines in four areas.

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National Support Teams

The public health National Support Teams or NSTs constituted a consultancy-style organisational development and change management service provided by the UK Government Department of Health.

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Nelson, Lancashire

Nelson is a town and civil parish in the Borough of Pendle in Lancashire, England, with a population of 29,135 in 2011.

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NHS Blood and Transplant

NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) is an executive non-departmental public body of England's Department of Health and Social Care.

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NHS Business Services Authority

The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) is an executive non-departmental public body of the Department of Health which provides some support services to the National Health Service in England and Wales.

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NHS Counter Fraud Authority

The NHS Counter Fraud Authority is a special health authority charged with identifying, investigating and preventing fraud and other economic crime within the NHS and the wider health group, formed on November 1, 2017 under section 28 of the National Health Service Act 2006.

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NHS Digital

NHS Digital is the trading name of the Health and Social Care Information Centre, which is the national provider of information, data and IT systems for commissioners, analysts and clinicians in health and social care in England, particularly those involved with the National Health Service (England).

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NHS England

NHS England is an executive non-departmental public body (NDPB) of the Department of Health and Social Care.

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NHS Improvement

NHS Improvement (NHSI) is responsible for overseeing foundation trusts and NHS trusts, as well as independent providers that provide NHS-funded care.

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NHS Plan 2000

The NHS Plan 2000 was a ten year plan of the Blair ministry for the National Health Service (England).

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NHS Resolution

NHS Resolution, the operating name of NHS Litigation Authority, is an arm's length body of the Department of Health.

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NHS Trust Development Authority

The NHS Trust Development Authority (NHSTDA) was an executive non-departmental public body of the Department of Health.

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NHS Wales

NHS Wales (GIG Cymru) is the official corporate name of the Welsh National Health Service (Gwasanaeth Iechyd Gwladol Cymru), a publicly funded healthcare system which is the responsibility of the Welsh Government.

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Nigel Crisp, Baron Crisp

Edmund Nigel Ramsay Crisp, Baron Crisp, KCB (born 14 January 1952) is a British former senior civil servant in the Department of Health and Senior Manager in the NHS.

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Non-departmental public body

In the United Kingdom, non-departmental public body (NDPB) is a classification applied by the Cabinet Office, Treasury, the Scottish Government and the Northern Ireland Executive to quangos (quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisations).

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Northern Ireland Assembly

The Northern Ireland Assembly (Tionól Thuaisceart Éireann, Ulster-Scots: Norlin Airlan Assemblie) is the devolved legislature of Northern Ireland.

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Northern Ireland Executive

The Northern Ireland Executive is the devolved government of Northern Ireland, an administrative branch of the legislature Northern Ireland Assembly.

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Order of the Bath

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath (formerly the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath) is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725.

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Outline of health sciences

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to health sciences: Health sciences – are applied sciences that address the use of science, technology, engineering or mathematics in the delivery of healthcare to human beings.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom

The Parliament of the United Kingdom, commonly known as the UK Parliament or British Parliament, is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, the Crown dependencies and overseas territories.

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Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State

A Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (also called a Parliamentary Secretary, especially in government departments not headed by a Secretary of State) is the lowest of three tiers of government minister in the government of the United Kingdom, immediately junior to a Minister of State, which is itself junior to a Secretary of State.

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Patricia Hewitt

Patricia Hope Hewitt (born 2 December 1948) is an Australian-born British Labour politician, who served in the Cabinet until 2007, most recently as Secretary of State for Health.

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Permanent Secretary

The Permanent Secretary, in most departments officially titled the Permanent Under-secretary of State or PUS (although the full title is rarely used), is the most senior civil servant of a British Government ministry, charged with running the department on a day-to-day basis.

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Personal health budgets

Professor Lord Darzi's review of the NHS in 2008 introduced the idea of personal health budgets (PHBs) in the English National Health Service.

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Poison

In biology, poisons are substances that cause disturbances in organisms, usually by chemical reaction or other activity on the molecular scale, when an organism absorbs a sufficient quantity.

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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is the head of the United Kingdom government.

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Private finance initiative

The private finance initiative (PFI) is a way of creating "public–private partnerships" (PPPs) where private firms are contracted to complete and manage public projects.

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Privy Council of the United Kingdom

Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, usually known simply as the Privy Council, is a formal body of advisers to the Sovereign of the United Kingdom.

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Proton-pump inhibitor

Proton-pump inhibitors (PPIs) are a group of drugs whose main action is a pronounced and long-lasting reduction of stomach acid production.

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Public Health England

Public Health England (PHE) is an executive agency of the Department of Health and Social Care in the United Kingdom that began operating on 1 April 2013.

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Quango

A quango or QUANGO (less often QuANGO or QANGO) is a quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisation.

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Quarry Hill, Leeds

Quarry Hill is an area of central Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

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Richmond House

Richmond House was until 2017 the headquarters building of the Department of Health and Social Care of the United Kingdom at 79 Whitehall, London, SW1A 2NS.

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Royal Victorian Order

The Royal Victorian Order (Ordre royal de Victoria) is a dynastic order of knighthood established in 1896 by Queen Victoria.

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Sally Davies (doctor)

Professor Dame Sally Claire Davies, DBE, FMedSci, FRS (born 24 November 1949) is the Chief Medical Officer for England.

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Scottish Government

The Scottish Government (Riaghaltas na h-Alba; Scots Govrenment) is the executive of the devolved Scottish Parliament.

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Secretary of State for Health and Social Care

Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (Secretary of State for Health until 8 January 2018) is a UK cabinet position responsible for the National Health Service (NHS).

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Simon Stevens (NHS England)

Simon Stevens (born 4 August 1966) is a British health manager, public policy analyst and politician.

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Skipton House

Skipton House is a high specification office building in Elephant and Castle, Central London.

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Social work

Social work is an academic discipline and profession that concerns itself with individuals, families, groups and communities in an effort to enhance social functioning and overall well-being.

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Stephen Barclay

Stephen Paul Barclay (born 3 May 1972) is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for North East Cambridgeshire since May 2010.

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Steve Brine

Stephen Charles Brine (born 28 January 1974) is a British Conservative Party politician and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Winchester.

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Sue Hill

Dame Susan Lesley Hill DBE (born 14 April 1955) has been the Chief Scientific Officer for England since October 2002.

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Surrogacy

Surrogacy is a method or agreement whereby a woman agrees to carry a pregnancy for another person or persons, who will become the newborn child's parent(s) after birth.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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Una O'Brien

Dame Una O'Brien DCB is a British former civil servant, who served as the Permanent Secretary at the Department of Health.

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University of Oxford

The University of Oxford (formally The Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford) is a collegiate research university located in Oxford, England.

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Victoria, London

Victoria is a small district in the City of Westminster in central London, named after Victoria Street and Victoria Station and indirectly, after Queen Victoria.

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Welsh Government

The Welsh Government (Llywodraeth Cymru) is the devolved government for Wales.

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Whitehall

Whitehall is a road in the City of Westminster, Central London, which forms the first part of the A3212 road from Trafalgar Square to Chelsea.

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Xenotransplantation

Xenotransplantation (xenos- from the Greek meaning "foreign"), is the transplantation of living cells, tissues or organs from one species to another.

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2018 British cabinet reshuffle

Theresa May carried out the first "refresh" of her minority government in January 2018.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Health_and_Social_Care

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