Department of Health and Social Care

Department of Health and Social Care Adrian Pingstone, Public domain

United Kingdom government ministerial department

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) is a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom. It is responsible for government policy on health and adult social care matters in England, along with a few elements of the same matters which are not otherwise devolved to the Scottish Government, Welsh Government or Northern Ireland Executive. It oversees the English National Health Service (NHS). The department is led by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care with three ministers of state and three parliamentary under-secretaries of state.

Also known as...Department of Health, DH, Department of Health, Department of Health, United Kingdom, Department of Health & Social Care, UK - Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), and DHSC
Unions Recommend Ambulance Pay Deal

Unions Recommend Ambulance Pay Deal SIPTU and Unite recommend accepting Labour Court proposals to resolve the National Ambulance Service pay dispute, while the Department of Health seeks clarity from Rotunda Hospital on consultant contracts.