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Clinical governance is a systematic approach to maintaining and improving the quality of patient care within the National Health Service (NHS) and private sector health care. Clinical governance became important in health care after the Bristol heart scandal in 1995, during which an anaesthetist, Dr Stephen Bolsin , exposed the high mortality ...
The National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom, comprising the NHS in England, NHS Scotland and NHS Wales. Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland was created separately and is often locally referred to as "the NHS". [ 2 ]
Life expectancy development in UK by gender Comparison of life expectancy at birth in England and Wales. Healthcare 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.
The Health Secretary promised culture change from the top of the NHS to the front line. Javid pledges to bring NHS leadership ‘into 21st century’ after damning report Skip to main content
From 1985 until 2013 the NHS Executive and its predecessor bodies formed part of England's Department of Health (now Department of Health and Social Care). Since April 2013 NHS England has been an independent statutory body. [4] It has been argued that NHS England's independence gives the Chief Executive 'the potential to be a prominent ...
Some 8,998 people had waited more than 18 months to start treatment at the end of August, up from 7,289 at the end of July.
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. [12] The Care Quality Commission is an executive non-departmental public body of the Department of Health and Social Care. It ...
The NHS was established within the differing nations of the United Kingdom through differing legislation, and as such there has never been a singular British healthcare system, instead there are 4 health services in the United Kingdom; NHS England, the NHS Scotland, HSC Northern Ireland and NHS Wales, which were run by the respective UK government ministries for each home nation before falling ...