📞 We’re extending the free 24/7 National Breastfeeding Helpline for another year to support thousands of mothers, babies and families. 🤱 Through Family Hubs and Start for Life programme, we’re investing £18.5 million in local infant feeding services. ✅ Our Plan for Change will give every child the best start in life. Visit the helpline's website: https://lnkd.in/gDaya-7
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About us
The Department of Health and Social Care helps people to live better for longer. We lead, shape and fund health and care in England, making sure people have the support, care and treatment they need, with the compassion, respect and dignity they deserve. The Department of Health and Social care sets the direction and coordinates action across the health and care system: public health and adult social care as well as the NHS. We create national policies and legislation, providing the long term vision and ambition to meet current and future challenges, and act as a global leader in health and care policy. We work with our partners to ensure everyone can access the health and care they need, from supporting people to have the best start in life, to staying in good health and, where that might not be possible, supporting people to live as independently as they can and ensuring they receive the best possible care. We want to instil a culture that values compassion, dignity and the highest quality of care. We support the integrity of the system by providing funding, assuring the delivery and continuity of services, and accounting to Parliament. We champion innovation and improvement by supporting research and technology, promoting honesty, openness and transparency. Above all, we encourage staff in every health and care organisation, including our own, to understand and learn from people’s experience of health and care and to apply this to everything we do.
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https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-of-health-and-social-care
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- Government Relations Services
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- 1,001-5,000 employees
- Headquarters
- London, England
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- Government Agency
- Founded
- 1919
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- Health, Social Care, Policy, Legislation, and Government
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39 Victoria Street
London, England SW1H 0EU, GB
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Quarry House
Leeds, Leeds LS2 7UE, GB
Employees at Department of Health and Social Care
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George Morris
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JJ Thakkar, FRSA
Global HR Director | CPO | Strategic HR Leader | NED | Trusted C-Level Advisor
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Joshua A. Smith
DHSC Head of Cross-Border Healthcare and Medical Tourism/Executive Committee Member: FDA Union
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Matt Edwards
Head of Capacity Analysis at Department of Health and Social Care, UK
Updates
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📍 10 Year Health Plan in Action AI is supporting cancer detection by aiding clinical staff to review x-Rays and identify patients for treatment earlier. Ashley Dalton MP saw the breakthrough tech at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust first hand. Part of our shift from analogue to digital to make the NHS fit for the future.
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Facilities like University of Oxford medical research centres are vital to our 10 Year Health Plan as we shift from treating sickness to preventing it. New, cutting edge research could help people fight lung cancer and live longer, happier lives. Read more: https://lnkd.in/e5qdtRUc
His Royal Highness The Duke of Gloucester visited Oxford University on Thursday, touring two of its leading medical research centres: the Clinical BioManufacturing Facility and the laboratories of the Oxford Vaccine Group and the Pandemic Sciences Institute. More info ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/e5qdtRUc Department of Health and Social Care
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📍 10 Year Health Plan in Action Karin Smyth visits a neighbourhood health centre in Whitstable, Kent, which brings together a range of services, including urgent and outpatient care from East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust Part of our shift from hospital to community to make the NHS fit for the future.
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Department of Health and Social Care reposted this
Starting from 7am on Friday 25 July, some NHS services will be affected due to strike action. You will be contacted if your appointment needs to be changed. Please continue to come forward for the care you need.
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Local stop smoking services supported over 238,000 quit attempts from April 2024 to March 2025, the highest since 2017/18. We're investing £70 million in these services this year, helping to create a smoke-free country as part of our 10 Year Health Plan. See the full data on local stop smoking services in England: https://lnkd.in/eE5cBj6R Get help to quit smoking: https://lnkd.in/ddDSZEc London Borough of Tower Hamlets 👇
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⏪ August 2024: 📢 We announced extra funding and cut red tape to recruit 1,000 newly-qualified GPs. ⏩ Now: 👩⚕️👨⚕️ We've recruited over 2,000. Our Plan for Change will create a Neighbourhood Health Service to continue this progress. The details: https://lnkd.in/exT8cHt7
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