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Community-based services – including substance misuse and learning disability services [49] Dentists – over 10,000 dental services [50] GPs and doctors – GP surgeries, walk-in centres and out-of-hours care [51] Hospices – end-of-life care and care of people with life-limiting illness [52] Hospitals – NHS and independent hospitals [53]
digital.nhs.uk /services /nhs-pathways NHS Pathways is a triage software utilised by the National Health Service of England to triage public telephone calls for medical care and emergency medical services – such as 999 or 111 calls – in some NHS trusts and seven of the ambulance services in the country.
Approved cancer drugs and treatments such as radiotherapy and chemotherapy are funded by the NHS without any financial contribution being taken from the patient. Where NICE has approved a treatment, the NHS must fund it. But not all treatments have been assessed by NICE and these treatments are usually dependent on local NHS decision making.
NHS Professionals supplies clinical and non-clinical temporary staff to the NHS and provides workforce services to health and care organisations. It operates a membership base of healthcare professionals (known as 'Bank Members') who work flexible shifts and longer-term placements at more than 130 acute and community NHS Trusts and other health and care organisations across the UK and the ...
Since 1995, UK CAMHS have largely been organised around the four-tier framework: [9] [10] Tier 1 mental health promotion, ill-health prevention work, and general advice and treatment for less severe problems by non-mental health specialists working in universal children’s services, such as GPs, school nurses, social workers, and voluntary agencies.
Special health authorities were set to provide a national service to the NHS or the public, under section 11 of the National Health Service Act 1977. [4] [5] [6] Prior to the repeal of the whole of the 1977 Act by the NHS (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006, special health authorities included both infrastructure support organisations and national/specialist treatment providers such as the ...
On 1 June 2012, the key functions of the NPSA were transferred to the NHS Commissioning Board Special Health Authority., [5] later known as NHS England. In April 2016, the patient safety function was transferred from NHS England to the newly established NHS Improvement. [6]
NHS England, formerly the NHS Commissioning Board for England, is an executive non-departmental public body of the Department of Health and Social Care. It oversees the budget, planning, delivery and day-to-day operation of the commissioning side of the National Health Service in England as set out in the Health and Social Care Act 2012 . [ 3 ]