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unusual facts about Department of Health, Education and Welfare



Advancing Quality

AQ will be independently evaluated by the University of Manchester Business School, which has been contracted to carry out a five-year evaluation for the Department of Health.

Christopher Kelly

He was the Permanent Secretary to the Department of Health from 1997 to 2000, while Frank Dobson and later Alan Milburn were the Secretary of State.

Clive Peedell

He is notable for having run 160 miles in six days from Aneurin Bevan's statue in Cardiff to the Department of Health in London in protest against the Health and Social Care Bill.

Eileen Rubery

Eileen Doris Rubery CB QHP FRCR FFPHM FRCPath (née McDonnell, born 16 May 1943) is a British academic who has worked in such diverse fields as medical research (at one point Senior Medical Officer of the Department of Health), business and management studies, and presently, art history and history.

Empilisweni District Hospital

Starting July 2011, Broadreach Healthcare - an NGO assisting the South African National Department of Health in the management and treatment of HIV/AIDS in rural populations - built a comprehensive ARV site on the hospital grounds using donor funding; it became fully operational since March 2012.

Four-hour target in emergency departments

A four-hour target in emergency departments was introduced by the Department of Health for National Health Service acute hospitals in England.

Herbert L. Ley, Jr.

During Ley's tenure, the FDA was admonished by consumer advocates, congressional committees and its own parent agency, what was then the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.

Information Centre for Health and Social Care

The organisation was created as a special health authority 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.

Klára Poláčková

Following her post as Regional Communications Manager at Euro RSCG Worldwide (2000–2003), she took up a position in the London office (2003–4) and (in 2004-6) worked as a communications consultant in the UK for the Department for Constitutional Affairs and the Department of Health.

Melanie Johnson

From 1999 to 2005 Johnson was a junior minister serving first as Economic Secretary to the Treasury, next in the DTI as Minister for Competition and Consumers, and finally as Minister for Public Health in the Department of Health.

National Diffusion Network

The program was created administratively by the then-Office of Education in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare as an effort to make use of the best of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title III education innovations.

Robert P. Hanrahan

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1974 to the Ninety-fourth Congress, but became a deputy assistant secretary for education at the Department of Health, Education and Welfare from 1975 to 1977.

Somoso General Hospital

Two years after the 25 bed capacity was approved, Clinica Somoso applied for a secondary level licensure which was again approved by Department of Health / Medicare so again, the Clinica Somoso became the first secondary hospital in Panabo, Davao del Norte.

The Silver Line

This led to a meeting at the invitation of Paul Burstow MP in the Department of Health to discuss the creation of a helpline.

Toby Moffett

Moffett served as Director of the Office of Students and Youth in the Office of Education within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare from 1969 to 1970, but quit to protest the Vietnam War.

Tsing Yi

The Department of Health operates two general out-patient clinics on the island in Tsing Yi Town.


see also

Constantine Menges

Menges worked to ensue equal voting rights in Mississippi and marched with the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. During the Nixon and Ford administrations, he was as deputy assistant for civil rights in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.

National Welfare Rights Organization

Leaders in the welfare rights movement were some of the first to be able to meet with Daniel P. Moynihan after he was appointed to the White House staff and leaders also started to meet regularly with Robert Finch, the Secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.