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The civil service in the United Kingdom only includes Crown (i.e. central government) employees, not parliamentary employees or local government employees. Public sector employees such as those in education and the NHS are not considered to be civil servants. Police officers and staff are also not civil servants.
Civil servants also have some traditional and statutory responsibilities which to some extent protect them from being used for the political advantage of the party in power. Senior civil servants may be called to account to Parliament. In general use, the term civil servant in the United Kingdom does not include all public sector employees.
The functions of the NHS Executive were provided through the Headquarters (mainly in Leeds and London) and eight regional offices which replaced the former regional health authorities. The Information Management Group (IMG) was part of the NHS Executive made up jointly of civil servants and NHS staff.
The government is already risking a confrontation after unions reacted with anger to proposals for a 2.8% pay increase for teachers, NHS staff and senior civil servants next year.
NHS Wales chief executive Dr Andrew Goodall will take over as Permanent Secretary of the Welsh Government after the departure of Dame Shan Morgan. NHS chief to become Wales’s new top civil ...
Sir Keir Starmer has appointed a candidate described as a “safe pair of hands” to run the civil service as he prepares to ... of chief of staff, Sue Gray, who lost a power struggle with her ...
Its over 19,000 members include Whitehall policy advisers, middle and senior managers, tax inspectors, economists and statisticians, government-employed lawyers, crown prosecutors, procurators fiscal, schools inspectors, diplomats, senior national museum staff, senior civil servants, accountants and National Health Service (NHS) managers. [3]
The National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom, comprising the NHS in England, NHS Scotland and NHS Wales. Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland was created separately and is often locally referred to as "the NHS". [ 2 ]