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.
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.
Providing people with quality health and social care services in the communities where they live.
Health reform brings together all the major changes needed to create a patient led NHS.