The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIS) is a special health authority of the National Health Service in England.
The HSCIC is England's central, authoritative source of health and social care information. Acting as a hub for high quality, national comparative data for secondary uses, The HSCIC delivers information for local decision makers to improve the quality and efficiency of frontline care.
Its primary aim is to drive the use of information to improve decision making and deliver better care by providing accessible, high quality and timely information to help frontline health and social care staff deliver better care.
The organisation was created on 1 April 2005 by a merger of parts of the Department of Health, parts of the NHS Information Authority, and the Prescribing Support Unit.
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“When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.”
—Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929)
“To make our idea of morality centre on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow-men a secret element of gusto.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)
“Nothing in Nature’s sober found,
But an eternal health goes round.
Fill up the bowl, then, fill it high,
Fill all the glasses there—for why
Should every creature drink but I?
Why, man of morals, tell me why?”
—Abraham Cowley (1618–1667)
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—Aleister Crowley (1875–1947)
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—Silvia Rimm (20th century)