Health and social care

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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:

  1. Clinical negligence
  2. Health care
  3. Complementary health services
  4. Dental treatment
  5. Dependencies and substance abuse
  6. Mental health
  7. Private health care
  8. Sexual and reproductive health
  9. National Health Service
  10. NHS charges and prescriptions
  11. Patients rights
  12. Public health - Coronavirus
  13. Covid-19 rules
  14. Smoking in public places
  15. Travel health
  16. Social care
  17. Care at home
  18. Residential and nursing care

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