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t. e. Health and Social Care ( HSC) is the publicly funded healthcare system in Northern Ireland. Although having been created separately to the National Health Service (NHS), [1] it is nonetheless considered a part of the overall national health service in the United Kingdom. The Northern Ireland Executive through its Department of Health is ...
Below the regional tier of public bodies, public services are also provided by 11 local authorities, one educational authority and five health and social care trusts. Others are accountable directly to the Northern Ireland Assembly or to external organisations, like the European Union .
public safety – the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service (commonly known by its former name, the Northern Ireland Fire Brigade) but not the Police Service of Northern Ireland or HM Coastguard. Some sensitive health policy issues are reserved to Westminster and are therefore not devolved: [6]
The Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland ( HSENI) is a Northern Ireland non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for the Economy. It is responsible for the encouragement, regulation and enforcement of occupational health and safety in Northern Ireland. Its functions are similar to those of the Health and Safety ...
In addition to the public-sector, there is also a large private healthcare market. In 2019 Ireland spent €3,513 per capita on health, close to the European Union average, [2] [3] of this spending approximately 79% was government expenditure. [4] In 2017 spending was the seventh highest in the OECD: $5,500 per head.
4 August – Northern Ireland's health trusts have been tightening visiting rules as pressure on hospitals grows, it is reported. 5 August – Figures from the Department of Health show that hospital procedures have reduced by 46%, with 59,762 cases across all of the health trusts in 2020–21, compared with 110,605 in 2019–20.
The current pattern of 11 local government districts was established on 1 April 2015, as a result of the reform process that started in 2005. The previous pattern of local government in Northern Ireland, with 26 councils, was established in 1973 by the Local Government (Boundaries) Act (Northern Ireland) 1971 and the Local Government Act ...
The responsibilities of the Health and Social Care board were to work in partnership with Northern Ireland's Public Health Agency to commission services, allocate resources and improve services for all people of Northern Ireland. Its commissioning is supported by five local commissioning groups that are geographically linked to five health and ...