Department of Health and Social Care
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.
39 Victoria Street, Westminster
Quarry House: a DH building shared with the Department for Work and Pensions at Quarry Hill, Leeds (known locally as 'The Kremlin'[citation needed]).
Image: Victoria Atkins Official Cabinet Portrait, November 2023 (cropped)
Image: Official portrait of Helen Whately MP crop 2
National Health Service (England)
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).
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, which with 1237 beds is one of the largest NHS hospitals
Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, another large NHS hospital in England, which has 1213 beds
Aneurin Bevan. As health minister from 1945 to 1951, he spearheaded the establishment of the National Health Service
Leaflet concerning the launch of the NHS in England and Wales