Department of Health and Social Protection (United Kingdom)-Wikipedia

For homonymous articles, see department of health.

Department of Health and Social Protection Department of Health
Situation
Creation	1988
Type	Executive department
Seat	Whitehall, Westminster United Kingdom
Language	English
Organisation
Secretary of State for Health	Stephen Barclay
Affiliate organizations	United Kingdom Government
Site web	www.dh.gov.uk
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The Department of Health and Social Protection (in English Department of Health and Social Care , DSC ) is a ministerial executive department of the government of the United Kingdom responsible for health.

The Department of Health – then called Department of Health (DH) – was created in 1988, by the “order transfer order” ( Transfer of Functions Order ) the l’ancien dhsss ( Department of Health and Social Security ) which was then split in two (subsequently, the Social Security Department will be dissolved in 2001 and previously the Department of Labor and Pensions).

In 2018, after the ministerial reshuffle of the British cabinet, it was renamed in the Department of Health and Social Protection (DDC).

He is responsible for the governance of National Health Service (NHS).

The Department of Health and Social Protection act as a steward and oversees 15 independent administrative authorities.

Executive agencies [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

The department supervises two executive agencies:

• Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)
• Public Health England

Non-departmental public body [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

The department supervises seven Non-departmental public body :

• National Institute for Health and Care Excellence(NICE)
• NHS England  (in)
• Monitor (NHS)  (in)
• Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority  (in)
• Human Tissue Authority  (in)
• Health and Social Care Information Centre  (in)
• Care Quality Commission (in) ( Care Quality Commission-CQC )

Specific health authorities ( Special Health Authorities) [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

Le Département a six NHS special health authority  (in) .

• Health Education England  (in)
• Health Research Authority  (in)
• NHS Blood and Transplant  (in)
• NHS Business Services Authority  (in)
• NHS Litigation Authority  (in)
• NHS Trust Development Authority  (in)

Related articles [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

• Executive departments of the United Kingdom
• Public health

external links [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

• (in) Official site

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