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Ministers and Department leaders
Ministers work with the Departmental board and clinical specialists to ensure the Department meets its objectives.
The Department of Health ministers are led by the Secretary of State who is a Cabinet minister. Their ministerial responsibilities and biographies are in this section.
The Department of Health ministers are appointed by the Prime Minister to take forward health and social care policy.
The Department is managed by a board of directors. They support the Permanent Secretary and the Chief Executive of the NHS to achieve the Department’s objectives and ensure its work is conducted efficiently and effectively.
National clinical directors are experts that each oversee the implementation of a national service framework (NSF). They advocate the NSFs in the NHS, and represent the NHS in the Department of Health.
National clinical directors are clinical specialists in their field and are figureheads for specific national service frameworks.
The Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Sir Liam Donaldson, is the UK Government's principal medical adviser and the professional head of all medical staff in England. These pages provide up-to-date information on key public health and clinical quality issues and offer access to CMO reports and publications.
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