NHS database
NHS database
The NHS database covers senior and mid-level contacts across all functions and levels of the NHS. This includes both Corporate Management contacts and Clinical Directors/Leads, including details of Medical and Clinical responsibilities.
In the case of GP Practices we cover the Practice Manager, the Senior GP and Senior Nursing contacts. In every practice, one of these is nominated as the main contact (our Chief Officer category), to allow you to reach one person per practice if required. This will normally be the Practice Manager.
The National Health Service is the UK 's largest employer but it would be wrong to think of it as a single homogenous organisation. Following devolution and major reorganisations in the past few years, the ways in which it is organised in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are continuing to diverge.
In England the main NHS organisations are currently
- Strategic Health Authorities - Has a strategic planning and funding role
- NHS Trusts There are three types of NHS trust - Acute, Mental Health and Ambulance. Trusts usually manage several hospitals with management and purchasing decisions usually taken by the Trust centrally and not by the individual hospital managers, who are primarily concerned with the day-to-day running of the hospital.
- Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) currently co-ordinate all primary care services, including GPs, Dentists, Pharmacists and Opticians. Following legislation in 2010, PCTs are required to be split into two organisations - a "Commissioning" organisation which specifies what needs to be done and co-ordinates funding and a "Provider" organisation which is responsible for the actual provision of services. There is a considerable overlap between the Healthcare services provided within Primary Care and the Social Care services provided by Local Government, so often these organisations will be working together to provide Health and Care solutions for patients.
There are also specialist NHS bodies for matters such as Prescription Pricing, the National Blood Service and NHS Direct.
The way Healthcare is to be funded, organised and commissioned in England will be changing dramatically over the coming few years. Strategic Health Authorities and PCTs are due to be phased out, leaving Secondary Care Trusts in place and the rest of Healthcare funding being directed straight to GP Surgeries who will be able to determine local priorities and requirements. New Consortia are being set-up to represent groups of GP Practices; these will be run by Practice Doctors from within the Group. This approach is known as "GP Lead Commissioning".
Scotland has a simplified structure with Scottish Health Boards having control of all operational responsibilities within their geographical area. The Community Health Partnerships provide a range of community health services and they work closely with primary health care professionals as well as hospitals and local councils.
In Wales Local Health Boards have been established and with the exception of one remaining NHS Trust, they deal with all Primary and Secondary Healthcare services.
Northern Ireland also has single organisations - Health & Social Care Boards - which, along with several other national bodies, deal with co-ordinating and providing all the Regions Healthcare services.
The following is a breakdown of the Oscar database firstly by coverage of key fields and then by the 4 key selection areas of the database. The figures are re-calculated every 24 hours based on the latest research.
NHS field coverage
NHS organisation types breakdown
NHS categories and functions breakdown
NHS seniority breakdown
NHS regional breakdown
