SECRETARY OF STATE FOR HEALTH

DH Personnel

Social Services

Personal Social Services

NHS

Health Authorities

Joint Consultative Committees

Local Authorities

District Health Authorities

Community Health Councils

Area Professional Advisory Committees

Health Authorities

District Dental Committees

Dental Service Committees

General Dental Practitioner

Local Dental Committees

-: Liaise with –

-: Accountable to –

STRUCTURE OF PRIMARY HEALTH CARE:

– involves all services outside the hospitals.

1. HA

– General Medical Practitioners

– General Dental Practitioners

– Pharmacists

– Opticians

2. Community Health Services

– run by the District health authorities

Community Nurses

– home nursing care

– some work in GMP surgeries also.

Child Health Services

– community clinics, both medical and dental.

Health Visitors

– preventative medicine via health education

– infant and child abuse

– elderly.

Other services:

– chiropody

– speech therapy

– domiciliary occupational therapist

– clinical psychologist

– community physiotherapists

3. Social Services Department

DSS

– money benefits via local authorities

Non-hospital residential day services.

– elderly: old peoples’ homes, day centres, domiciliary visits

– children

– mentally handicapped – day services, training services, some hostels.

– voluntary workers

– home helps