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A London Health and Care Devolution Programme Board, chaired by Will Tuckley, chief executive of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets was established in 2017. It includes the 32 clinical commissioning groups across London, 33 local authorities, the Greater London Authority, NHS England London Region and Public Health England London Region.
Expenditure on private health care in the UK in 1976 was estimated at £134 million (excluding abortions, long-term care, and dentistry). That was about 3% of total expenditure on health care in the UK. At that time about 2% of all acute hospital beds and 6% of all hospital beds in England were in private hospitals and nursing homes.
In England, social care is defined as the provision of social work, personal care, protection or social support services to children or adults in need or at risk, or adults with needs arising from illness, disability, old age or poverty.
This list excludes community health trusts established under the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 and their successors, primary care trusts, for which see the list of primary care trusts in England. All such trusts were abolished on 31 March 2013.
Public Health England (PHE) was an executive agency of the Department of Health and Social Care in England which began operating on 1 April 2013 to protect and improve health and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities.
Health care is very variable through Ghana. Urban centres are well served, and contain most hospitals, clinics, and pharmacies in the country. Rural areas often have no modern health care. Patients in these areas either rely on traditional African medicine, or travel great distances for health care.
Caritas Christi Health Care, founded in 1985 under the ownership of the Archdiocese of Boston, was a non-profit healthcare system comprising six Eastern Massachusetts hospitals as well as a number of non-acute healthcare facilities across southern New England. [19]
Canadian and American health care systems compared; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention timeline; Health in the United States; Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010; Health care compared – tabular comparisons of the US, Canada, and other countries not shown above. Health care industry; Health care politics