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Health and Social Care (HSC; Irish: Sláinte agus Cúram Sóisialta) is the publicly funded healthcare system in Northern Ireland. Although having been created separately to the National Health Service (NHS), [1] it is nonetheless considered a part of the overall national health service in the United Kingdom.
Health care in Ireland is delivered through public and private healthcare. The public health care system is governed by the Health Act 2004, [ 1 ] which established a new body to be responsible for providing health and personal social services to everyone living in Ireland – the Health Service Executive .
It started as The Carers Association in 1987, [1] and was the first national carers association for lobbying government, [2] representing family carers and advocate for carers rights in Ireland. The national census of 2006 shows that there are 160,917 people who stated that they are carers and almost 41,000 of these carers are providing 43 or ...
The National Ambulance Service College (NASC) (Irish: Coláiste Náisiúnta an tSeirbhís Otharchairr) was first established in 1986 as the National Ambulance Training School and is based at the organisation's new HQ named the Rivers Building in Tallaght, which also houses the National Emergency Operations Centre (NEOC). 999/112 emergency calls are processed here also, as well as a second base ...
People who have paid sufficient Pay Related Social Insurance into the national Social Insurance Fund may qualify for Illness Benefit for one or two years. They may then qualify for Invalidity Pension, which can continue until age 66.
The Carer's Leave Bill was introduced into the House of Commons in September 2022 by Wendy Chamberlain MP. It was supported by the government and passed as the Carer's Leave Act 2023 (c. 18) on 24 May 2023. It gives a new right for UK employees with caring responsibilities to have up to one week of unpaid Carer’s Leave each year.
The Department of Health (Irish: An Roinn Sláinte) is a department of the Government of Ireland.The department's mission is to "support, protect and empower individuals, families and their communities to achieve their full health potential by putting health at the centre of public policy and by leading the development of high quality, equitable and efficient health and personal social services."