• Health and Social Care (often abbreviated to HSC or H&SC) is a term that relates to services that are available from health and social care providers...
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    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...
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    The secretary of state for health and social care, also referred to as the health secretary, is a secretary of state in the Government of the United Kingdom...
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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...
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    illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people. Health care is delivered by health professionals and allied health fields. Medicine...
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  • Universal health care (also called universal health coverage, universal coverage, or universal care) is a health care system in which all residents of...
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    The Health and Social Care Levy was a proposed tax in the United Kingdom to be levied by the Government of the United Kingdom for extra health spending...
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    The Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c 7) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It provided for the most extensive reorganisation of the structure...
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  • Government-guaranteed health care for all citizens of a country, often called universal health care, is a broad concept that has been implemented in several...
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  • Health equity arises from access to the social determinants of health, specifically from wealth, power and prestige. Individuals who have consistently...
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  • Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is an executive non-departmental public body, in England, of the Department of Health and Social Care, that publishes...
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    The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (c 14) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The Act was created on 11 March 2009 with the following regulated...
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  • The Health and Social Care Select Committee (abbreviated to HSC, HSCC and HSCSC) is a Departmental Select Committee of the British House of Commons, the...
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  • Insurance Act 1911 included national social health insurance for primary care (not specialist or hospital care), initially for about one-third of the...
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    "the social determinants can be more important than health care or lifestyle choices in influencing health." and "This unequal distribution of health-damaging...
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    contributions), and overseen by the Department of Health and Social Care, the NHS provides healthcare to all legal English residents and residents from...
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  • National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) is the British government's major funder of clinical, public health, social care and translational research...
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  • The Health and Social Care Directorates are a group of directorates of the Scottish Government. They are responsible for NHS Scotland, as well as policies...
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    Secretary for Health and Social Care (Scottish Gaelic: Rùnaire a’ Chaibineit airson Slàinte is Cùram Sòisealta), commonly referred to as the Health Secretary...
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  • who use care services from abuse or neglect, to prevent deterioration of or promote physical or mental health, to promote independence and social inclusion...
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    rehabilitation, palliative care and more. It is essential health care that is based on scientifically sound and socially acceptable methods and technology. This...
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  • Gender affirming health care can include psychological, medical, physical, and social behavioral care. The purpose of gender affirming care is to help a transgender...
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  • Health and Social Care Partnerships, (HSCPs) are organisations formed to integrate services provided by Health Boards and Councils in Scotland. Each partnership...
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    Examples of health care systems of the world, sorted by continent, are as follows. Following sources of financing of healthcare systems can be categorized:...
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  • regulation of social workers to the Health Professions Council, which was renamed the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC). The regulation of social workers...
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    The Minister of State for Social Care is a mid-level position in the Department of Health and Social Care in the British government. The minister often...
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  • A health professional, healthcare professional, or healthcare worker (sometimes abbreviated HCW) is a provider of health care treatment and advice based...
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  • The Health and Social Care Network (HSCN) is a standards-based network that replaced the N3 network in the National Health Service (NHS) in England. It...
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  • The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is an executive non-departmental public body of the Department of Health and Social Care of the United Kingdom. It was...
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  • Health care reform is for the most part governmental policy that affects health care delivery in a given place. Health care reform typically attempts...
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