Health and social care

When you are not very well, or you need help to manage day to day, the law is the last thing on your mind. But the law underpins all the rules about your rights to get and use health and social care services.
What's your problem about? Select a category for hand-picked, quality-checked information on health and social care:
- Clinical negligence
- Health care
- Complementary health services
- Dental treatment
- Dependencies and substance abuse
- Mental health
- Private health care
- Sexual and reproductive health
- National Health Service
- NHS charges and prescriptions
- Patients rights
- Public health
- Covid-19 rules
- Smoking in public places
- Travel health
- Social care
- Care at home
- Residential and nursing care