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.
Monitor was an executive non-departmental public body of the Department of Health,responsible between 2004 and 2016 for ensuring healthcare provision in NHS England was financially effective. It was the sector regulator for health services in England. Its chief executive was Ian Dalton and it was chaired by Dido Harding. Monitor was merged with the NHS Trust Development Authority to form NHS Improvement on 1 April 2016.
The Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital (NNUH) is a large National Health Service academic teaching hospital in the Norwich Research Park on the western outskirts of Norwich,England.
David William Bennett is a consultant,public policy analyst,and the former Chief Executive of Monitor,the regulator of the National Health Service (NHS) in England. He was appointed Chief Executive and Chair in February 2011. He had been Monitor's Interim Chief Executive since March 2010.
Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust operated Salford Royal Hospital in Greater Manchester until 2017. Its chief executive is Dr Owen Williams.
Sir Ian James Carruthers is a British healthcare and academic administrator who was senior director for the National Health Service (NHS). Having first joined the NHS in 1969 as an administrator at Garlands Hospital,Carlisle,he rose through a career which included six months as the interim Chief Executive of the NHS in England during 2006. He has been the Chancellor of the University of the West of England since 2011.
Sir David Nicholson is a public policy analyst and NHS Manager who is the Chair of Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust and Chair of Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. He was previously the Chief Executive of the National Health Service in England. He was appointed in October 2011 following the NHS reforms,having been seventh Chief executive of the NHS within the Department of Health since September 2006. He issued what has become known as the "Nicholson challenge" regarding the finances of the NHS. He retired from the role on 1 April 2014 in the wake of the Stafford Hospital scandal.
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is an NHS trust in London,England. It is closely involved with Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust,with which it shares its chair,Sir Hugh Taylor,its strategy director and IT director. It is assumed that the two organisations will eventually merge.
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 established in 2009 to regulate and inspect health and social care providers in England.
NHS targets are performance measures used by NHS England,NHS Scotland,NHS Wales,and the Health and Social Care service in Northern Ireland. These vary by country but assess the performance of each health service against measures such as 4 hour waiting times in Accident and Emergency departments,weeks to receive an appointment and/or treatment,and performance in specific departments such as oncology.
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (WUTH) is an NHS Foundation Trust. It provides healthcare for people of the Wirral Peninsula and the surrounding areas of North West England and North Wales.
The Stafford Hospital scandal concerns poor care and high mortality rates amongst patients at the Stafford Hospital,Stafford,England,during the first decade of the 21st century. The hospital was run by the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust,and supervised by the West Midlands Strategic Health Authority. It has been renamed County Hospital. The scandal also resulted in the resignation of NHS Chief Sir David Nicholson in 2013.
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust operates Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital. The Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2006. The Trust's chief executive is Lesley Watts and its chairman is Sir Thomas Hughes-Hallett.
Simon Laurence Stevens,Baron Stevens of Birmingham is Chair of Cancer Research UK and an independent member of the House of Lords. He served as the eighth Chief Executive of NHS England from 2014 to 2021.
Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust (HEFT) was one of the largest organisations running NHS hospitals in England. The hospitals and services run by HEFT included Heartlands Hospital,Solihull Hospital and Community Services,Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield and Birmingham Chest Clinic. The trust was under the leadership of chair Jacqui Smith and chief executive David Rosser,who succeeded Julie Moore on 1 September 2018.
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is an English teaching hospital and part of the Shelford Group. It is one of the UK's largest teaching hospitals and one of the largest hospitals in Europe. The trust is made up of four hospitals –the John Radcliffe Hospital,the Churchill Hospital and the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre,all located in Oxford,and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury,north Oxfordshire.
Wye Valley NHS Trust was established in 2011 by a merger of Hereford Hospitals NHS Trust with Herefordshire PCT community services and Herefordshire Council’s Adult Social Care services. It runs Hereford County Hospital,Bromyard Community Hospital,Leominster Community Hospital and Ross Community Hospital,in Herefordshire,England.
The NHS Long Term Plan,also known as the NHS 10-Year Plan is a document published by NHS England on 7 January 2019,which sets out its priorities for healthcare over the next 10 years and shows how the NHS funding settlement will be used. It was published by NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens and Prime Minister Theresa May. The plan marked the official abandonment of the policy of competition in the English NHS,which was established by the Health and Social Care Act 2012. Integrated care systems are to be created across England by 2021,Clinical Commissioning Groups are to be merged and NHS England with NHS Improvement appear to be merging,unofficially,though this is all to happen without actually repealing the legislation.
Amanda Pritchard is a British healthcare official and public policy analyst who has been the Chief Executive of NHS England since 1 August 2021. Pritchard previously served as chief operating officer of NHS England and as chief executive of NHS Improvement from 2019 to 2021. She was formerly chief executive of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust from January 2016 to July 2019,having been acting chief executive from October 2015 to January 2016.
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) is an NHS foundation trust in Greater Manchester,England.
