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The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) is an executive non-departmental public body of the Department of Health and Social Care which provides a number of support services to the National Health Service in England and Wales. It was created on 1 October 2005 following a review by the Department of Health of its "arm's length bodies". It ...
The Directory is held centrally by the NHS Digital. It provides real-time information about services available to support patients. Pharmacy contractors are obliged to update their entries where the pharmacy’s opening hours change, either temporarily or permanently. [1] The directory is used by: NHS 111; Choose and Book; NHS Pathways; NHS Choices
The MHRA's strategy is set by a board which consists of a chairperson (appointed for a three-year term [12] by the Secretary of State for the Department of Health and Social Care) [13] and eight non-executive directors, together with the chief executive and chief operating officer. [14]
The remit of the Ombudsman was extended in 1973 to cover the National Health Service. In 1996, the Ombudsman was empowered to investigate complaints about clinical judgment. By law, complaints made to the Parliamentary Ombudsman about UK Government departments and other UK public organisations must be referred by a Member of Parliament (MP).
In 1988 the department was split again into a separate Department of Health and the Department of Social Security. [ 5 ] In 2001 the Department for Work and Pensions was formed from the Department of Social Security, absorbing the employment functions which had previously been the responsibility of the Department for Education and Employment ...
In 1995, a review conducted by Geoffrey Chipperfield, working for the Secretary of State for the Environment, recommended abolition of the local government ombudsmen on the grounds that it would not be able to handle the increasing volume of local government complaints effectively. Chipperfield recommended that all stages of a complaint ...
Topping the complaint list were cell-phone companies, with 38,420 complaints, up 41% over 2010. After that, the list includes (in order of number of gripes): new-car dealers
The NHS in Scotland does have some services provided by the NHS in England – such as NHS Business Services Authority, which processes the payment of dental, optical and pharmacy vouchers and negotiates with pharmaceutical suppliers to negotiate prices per-item down. The costs for the medicines consumed is borne by the health board that ...