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Better Care Fund renewed for 2019 to 2020

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Latest from the Department of Health and Social Care

  1. Advancing our health: prevention in the 2020s
    • Open consultation
  2. Changes to NHS pensions for senior clinicians: have your say
    • News story
  3. Senior clinicians' pensions: more flexibility
    • Open consultation

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Guidance and regulation

  1. SEND code of practice: 0 to 25 years
    • Statutory guidance
  2. National framework for NHS continuing healthcare and NHS-funded nursing care
    • Guidance
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News and communications

  1. Changes to NHS pensions for senior clinicians: have your say
    • News story
  2. Same-day pharmacy consultations offered to patients
    • News story
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Research and statistics

  1. Senior Salaries Review Body Report: 2019
    • Independent report
  2. National Health Service Pay Review Body 32nd Report: 2019
    • Independent report
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Policy papers and consultations

  1. Advancing our health: prevention in the 2020s
    • Open consultation
  2. Senior clinicians' pensions: more flexibility
    • Open consultation
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Transparency and freedom of information releases

  1. Report on the Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit 2018
    • Corporate report
  2. DHSC Government Major Projects Portfolio data, 2019
    • Transparency
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Ministerial Correspondence and Public Enquiries Unit
Department of Health and Social Care
39 Victoria Street
London
SW1H 0EU
United Kingdom

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0115 902 3202

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SW1H 0EU
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