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.
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![Quarry House: a DH building shared with the Department for Work and Pensions at Quarry Hill, Leeds (known locally as 'The Kremlin'[citation needed]).](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/QuarryHouseLeeds.jpg/500px-QuarryHouseLeeds.jpg)
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)
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His Majesty's principal secretaries of state, or secretaries of state, are senior ministers of the Crown in the Government of the United Kingdom. Secretaries of state head most major government departments and make up the majority of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.
Sign in Richmond Park citing the authority of the Secretary of State.