• Statutory Services- have been set up because parliament has passed a law which requires the services to be provided, for example, accident and emergency departments in hospitals, education services for children or home care services for older people.
• Private organisations- are run on profit – making basis and are business, for example, private hospitals and residential homes or private children’s nurseries.
• Voluntary organisations- are run on a non profit making basic, for example, the Women Royal voluntary services (WRVS), or Barnodo’s, an organisation which provides care for children and young people.

However, health and social care is also often provided by people outside these formal agencies and organisations. Informal care maybe provided by family members, friends and neighbours.

An Overview Of Health and Social Care Provision

Statutory sector organisation
The two main providers of statutory services are the national health services (NHS) and local authority services. Statutory services are organised at national, regional and local levels.

The National Health Service (NHS)
The aim of the national health service (NHS) was to provide integrated and co-ordinated health care services to all that were free of charge at the time of use. There were three main parts to the service.

1. Primary care services, which include GP’S, Dentists, Opticians and Pharmacists.
2. Secondary and tertiary care services of the regional and district systems, for example, hospitals and specialist services.
3. Community care and public health services, which had an emphasis on preventive work and health promotion. Early examples of these included vaccination and immunisation programmes against illnesses such as smallpox and whooping cough.

Until recently there were only comparatively minor changes in