What is Health and Social Care (Northern Ireland)?
'''Health and Social Care (Northern Ireland)''' is the [[Health care|healthcare]] system in [[Northern Ireland]], It was set up in 1948 at the same time as the [[National Health Service]] in [[Great Britain]], It is different because it covers [[social care]] as well as health care. There are no [[Prescription charge|prescription charges]] as there are in England.<ref>{{Cite news|date=2008-09-29|title=NI to scrap prescription charges|language=en-GB|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/7641637.stm|access-date=2023-01-30}}</ref> There are five health and social care trusts. They run the hospitals, [[dentistry]], [[Pharmacy|pharmacie]]<nowiki/>s and social care. <ref>{{Cite web|date=2015-12-08|title=Health and Social Care trusts {{!}} nidirect|url=https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/contacts/health-and-social-care-trusts|access-date=2023-01-30|website=www.nidirect.gov.uk|language=en}}</ref> They started on 1 April 2007. The six trusts are: * Belfast Health and Social Care Trust * Northern Health and Social Care Trust * Northern Ireland Ambulance Service Health and Social Care Trust * South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust * Southern Health and Social Care Trust * Western Health and Social Care Trust<ref>{{Cite web|date=2015-12-08|title=Health and Social Care trusts {{!}} nidirect|url=https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/contacts/health-and-social-care-trusts|access-date=2023-03-16|website=www.nidirect.gov.uk|language=en}}</ref> There are about 350 [[General practitioner|GP practices]] in Northern Ireland. The service in Northern Ireland is much worse than in the rest of the UK because of the political problems in the [[Northern Ireland Assembly]]. <ref>{{Cite news|date=2023-01-20|title=Senior medics write to Chris Heaton-Harris over NI health crisis|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-64344568|access-date=2023-03-16}}</ref> == References == {{Reflist}} [[Category:National Health Service]] [[Category:Organisations based in Northern Ireland]]