DH, 15 June 2012
A series of factsheets on the Health and Social Care Act 2012 including:
Key policy areas in the Act
- Clinically-led commissioning
- Provider regulation to support innovative and efficient services
- Greater voice for patients
- New focus for public health
- Greater accountabilty locally and nationally
- Streamlined arm’s length bodies
- Factsheet on support worker regulation
- Cross-cutting themes of the Bill
Cross cutting themes
- Improving quality of care
- Tackling inequalities in healthcare
- Promoting better integration of health and care services
- Choice and competition
- The role of the Secretary of State
- Reconfiguration of services
- Establishing new national bodies
- Embedding research as a core function of the health service
- Education and training