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The Health and Social Care Act 2008 replaced the Healthcare Commission, the Commission for Social Care Inspection and the Mental Health Act Commission with a single, integrated regulator for health and adult social care - the Care Quality Commission. [5] [6] The Care Quality Commission began operating on 1 April 2009 as a non-departmental ...
The Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) is a system for the performance management and payment of general practitioners (GPs) in the National Health Service (NHS) in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. It was introduced as part of a new general medical services (GMS) contract in April 2004, replacing various other fee arrangements.
Healthcare Improvement Scotland (HIS) was established by the Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010, taking over the work of QIS and the regulatory functions, in regard to independent healthcare provision, previously conducted by the Care Commission, now renamed the Care Inspectorate.
Bank of England; Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) . The Office for Professional Body Anti-Money Laundering Supervision (OPBAS) [2] Financial Reporting Council, expected to be replaced by the Audit, Reporting and Governance Authority in 2023
NHS Providers described the decision to increase fees as "regrettable". [106] For 2016/7 fees will increase by 75% as its government funding is reduced by 25%. The increase in fee levels has been criticised by the Registered Nursing Home Association (RNHA), Care England and the Voluntary Organisations Disability Group (VODG). [107]
The NHS is largely funded from general taxation, with a small amount being contributed by National Insurance payments [11] and from fees levied by recent changes in the Immigration Act 2014. [12] The UK government department responsible for the NHS is the Department of Health and Social Care , headed by the Secretary of State for Health and ...
Some 37 trusts – 25% of the 147 in England – said they had raised the price of parking at some point between April 2022 and March 2024. At least one in four NHS trusts upped parking charges in ...
NHS Scotland, sometimes styled NHSScotland, is the publicly–funded healthcare system in Scotland and one of the four systems that make up the National Health Service in the United Kingdom. It operates 14 territorial NHS boards across Scotland, supported by seven special non-geographic health boards, and Public Health Scotland.