The aim of the Department's Public Service Agreement is to transform the health and social care system so that it produces faster, fairer services that deliver better health and tackle health inequalities
Details of targets within successive Public Service Agreements.
The strategic framework shows how the high-level objectives of the Department mesh with the wider Government performance framework set out in the 2007 Comprehensive Spending Review. It also shows how these objectives link to the outcome indicators used by the NHS and local government in the Vital Signs and National Indicator Set respectively.
These reports set out a mid-year update on the progress the Department has made towards achieving its Public Service Agreement (PSA) targets.
These accounts consolidate the financial information within the Departmental Accounting Boundary.
These reports provide Parliament and the public with an account of how the Department has spent the resources allocated to it, as well as its future planned spend. It also describes policies and programmes and gives a breakdown of spending within these programmes.