Andrew David Lansley,Baron Lansley,is a British Conservative politician who previously served as Secretary of State for Health and Leader of the House of Commons. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for South Cambridgeshire from 1997 to 2015.
The British Medical Association (BMA) is a registered trade union for doctors in the United Kingdom. It does not regulate or certify doctors,a responsibility which lies with the General Medical Council. The BMA has a range of representative and scientific committees and is recognised by National Health Service (NHS) employers alongside the Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association as one of two national contract negotiators for doctors.
Professor Sir Bruce Edward Keogh,KBE,FMedSci,FRCS,FRCP is a Rhodesian-born British surgeon who specialises in cardiac surgery. He was medical director of the National Health Service in England from 2007 and national medical director of the NHS Commissioning Board from 2013 until his retirement early in 2018. He is chair of Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust.
The National Health Service (NHS) is the publicly funded healthcare system in England,and one of the four National Health Service systems in the United Kingdom. It is the second largest single-payer healthcare system in the world after the Brazilian Sistema Único de Saúde. Primarily funded by the government from general taxation,and overseen by the Department of Health and Social Care,the NHS provides healthcare to all legal English residents and residents from other regions of the UK,with most services free at the point of use for most people. The NHS also conducts research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR).
Healthcare in England is mainly provided by the National Health Service (NHS),a public body that provides healthcare to all permanent residents in England,that is free at the point of use. The body is one of four forming the UK National Health Service as health is a devolved matter;there are differences with the provisions for healthcare elsewhere in the United Kingdom,and in England it is overseen by NHS England. Though the public system dominates healthcare provision in England,private health care and a wide variety of alternative and complementary treatments are available for those willing and able to pay.
The Health and Social Care Act 2012 is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It provided for the most extensive reorganisation of the structure of the National Health Service in England to date. It removed responsibility for the health of citizens from the Secretary of State for Health,which the post had carried since the inception of the NHS in 1948. It abolished primary care trusts (PCTs) and strategic health authorities (SHAs) and transferred between £60 billion and £80 billion of "commissioning",or healthcare funds,from the abolished PCTs to several hundred clinical commissioning groups,partly run by the general practitioners (GPs) in England. A new executive agency of the Department of Health,Public Health England,was established under the act on 1 April 2013.
Biomedical sciences are a set of sciences applying portions of natural science or formal science,or both,to develop knowledge,interventions,or technology that are of use in healthcare or public health. Such disciplines as medical microbiology,clinical virology,clinical epidemiology,genetic epidemiology,and biomedical engineering are medical sciences. In explaining physiological mechanisms operating in pathological processes,however,pathophysiology can be regarded as basic science.
The National Health Action Party (NHA) is a political party in the United Kingdom.
Mark Porter is a consultant anaesthetist and was chair of the British Medical Association until June 2017 when he was succeeded by Chaand Nagpaul.
Christopher M. Nutting is a British Professor of Clinical Oncology and medical consultant,specializing in head and neck cancers,who has helped develop Intensity-Modulated Radiotherapy (IMRT),an advanced form of Radiation therapy.
National Clinical Impact Awards are awarded within the English National Health Service to consultants and academic GPs who perform 'over and above' the standard expected of their role. In January 2022 reforms were announced. There will be more awards but at lower levels. There are 3 levels rather than 4. They will still run for 5 years. There will be up to 600 awards granted each year with 70 national 3 awards worth £40,000 per year,200 national 2 at £30,000 per year and 330 national 1 awards at £20,000 per year. For the first time those who work less than full time,mostly women,will get the full value instead of pro-rata. Local award schemes,managed by individual employers,are not affected.
Chaand Nagpaul is a British doctor who works as a general practitioner and was Chair of the Council of the British Medical Association 2017-2022. Nagpaul took over as chair from Mark Porter in June 2017.
Healthcare in Worcestershire was the responsibility of three Clinical Commissioning Groups until July 2022,covering,respectively Redditch and Bromsgrove,Wyre Forest and South Worcestershire.
Marie-Louise Irvine is a Scottish general practitioner,health campaigner,and parliamentary candidate. She unsuccessfully stood for election in the 2015 general election and the 2017 general election for the National Health Action Party in the constituency of South West Surrey. She came second to Jeremy Hunt in the 2017 election;reducing his majority.
Lisa Cameron is a Scottish politician and former consultant clinical psychologist who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for East Kilbride,Strathaven and Lesmahagow since winning the seat at the 2015 general election. First elected for the Scottish National Party (SNP),she was re-elected for that party in 2017 and 2019,before she crossed the floor to the Scottish Conservatives in October 2023.
David Wrigley is a British medical doctor who works as a general practitioner (GP) in Lancashire and is the deputy chair of the British Medical Association (BMA) Council. He is a member of the Labour Party and Socialist Health Association.
On 20 October 2016,a by-election was held in the UK parliamentary constituency of Witney. It took place on the same day as the Batley and Spen by-election. They were the fifth and sixth by-elections of the 56th UK Parliament.
Ethel Armstrong is a British radiographer. She began working for the National Health Service (NHS) on the day it was established,5 July 1948,and subsequently played a key role in establishing the NHS Retirement Fellowship.
Friarage Hospital is a 189-bed hospital located in Northallerton,North Yorkshire,England. The hospital covers a large section of rural North Yorkshire and the Vale of York which amounts to over 120,000 people in 390 square miles (1,000 km2). The hospital is run by the South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and is one of six hospitals in the trust's portfolio.
Jeremy Hunt served as Secretary of State for Health,later Secretary of State for Health and Social Care,from 2012 to 2018. Appointed by David Cameron,Hunt served in the Cameron–Clegg coalition and Cameron majority government. He was reappointed by Theresa May and served in the majority and minority May governments. In January 2018,Hunt gained additional responsibility for social care in England and,in June,became the longest-serving Health Secretary in British political history. He left the role when he was promoted to Foreign Secretary following the resignation of Boris Johnson,and was succeeded by Matt Hancock.
