Promoting business success and improvement through flexibility and partnership, best practice and a culture where staff are encouraged to develop new skills and expand their knowledge.
Social enterprises are organisations that are run along business lines, but where any profits are reinvested into the community or into service developments. Encouraging social enterprise in health and social care is a key part of the patient led reforms.
The Performance Framework sets out the Department's approach to identifying underperforming NHS organisations and stipulates when intervention should occur in such organisations.
The Social Enterprise Investment Fund provides investment to social enterprises delivering health and social care services.