| adoption-service | Adoption service | An organisation that makes arrangements for the adoption of children. |
| adult-placement-service | Adult placement service | An organisation that helps approved adult placement carers to share their home and time with someone in need. Carers are ordinary people from the local community who offer support and short or long-term care within their home to those who need help due to age, illness or disability. |
| ambulance-service | Ambulance service | Provider of emergency medical care, stabilization, and transport for sick or injured individuals to a hospital or other defined place of care. |
| burns-and-plastics-centre | Burns and plastics centre | An organisation offering specialised medical treatment for severe skin injuries, combining acute burn care with plastic surgery for reconstruction, scar management, and rehabilitation. |
| cancer-centre | Cancer centre | An organisation offering specialised medical treatment for cancer patients, such as radiotherapy and monitoring patients for progression or recurrence of the disease. |
| care-home-service | Care home service | An organisation providing accommodation, personal care and support for individuals unable to live independently, offering help with daily tasks (washing, dressing, meals) and supervision in a communal setting, with options for residential (personal) care or nursing care (medical needs). |
| child-minding | Child minding | An organisation involved in the provision of childminding services e.g. an agency that registers and quality assures childminders (with and without domestic premises) and providers of ‘childcare on domestic premises’ (CODPs) |
| childrens-day-care | Childrens day care | An organisation that delivers childcare in a group setting comprising 5 or more staff (childminders and assistants) in accordance with Ofsted classification. |
| city-council | City council | An organisation managing more localised services at city level within a county as part of a two-tier local government system in England. Services include housing, local planning, refuse collection, environmental health, leisure facilities, parking. |
| cluster | Cluster | A group of related organisations or entities that work together to achieve common goals or provide integrated services. |
| combined-authority | Combined authority | An organisation representing a collaboration of two or more councils within an area to take collective decisions across country boundaries in England. The combined authority has a directly elected mayor and has a greater devolution of powers from central government. |
| community-centre | Community centre | An organisation that provides community-based care facilities with the goal of increasing access to crucial primary and preventative care services. |
| constabulary | Constabulary | An organized body of police officers responsible for a country, district, or town. |
| county-council | County council | An organisation providing strategic, county-wide services as part of a two-tier local government system in England. Services include education, social services (adult & children's), major roads, waste disposal, libraries, public transport. |
| court | Court | A judicial body that handles cases where someone is accused of breaking the law (a crime), determining guilt or innocence and imposing punishments like fines or imprisonment |
| dental-practice | Dental practice | An organisation providing oral healthcare for the public such as check-ups, fillings and surgery. |
| district-council | District council | An organisation managing more localised services at district level within a county as part of a two-tier local government system in England. Services include housing, local planning, refuse collection, environmental health, leisure facilities, parking. |
| district-nursing | District nursing | An organisation providing skilled nursing care to patients in their homes and communities, focusing on those who are housebound, have long-term conditions, or need complex care. |
| domiciliary-support-service | Domiciliary support service | An organisation that provides professional care services to help people live independently in their own homes through daily visits or live in care. Their role is focused on assisting with household tasks, medication, and other activities that help to maintain quality of life. |
| fostering-service | Fostering service | An organisation that helps approved foster parents to provide a safe, stable home for children and young people who cannot live with their birth families. Some placements last only a short time, while others continue for much longer, depending on what each child needs. |
| free-school | Free school | A school that is funded by the government but not run by the local authority. They are usually run by academy trusts, but they can also be run by universities, charities, businesses and faith groups. Free schools have much greater freedom in terms of curriculum, school times and term dates, and can decide how to allocate funds. |
| gp-practice | GP practice | An organisation of one or more general practitioners who provide general medical services to the population as a first point of contact. |
| health-board | Health board | An organisation responsible for planning and delivering NHS Wales health services to meet the health care needs of the population of its defined geographic area across multiple health sectors. |
| health-visiting | Health visiting | An organisation with workforce of specialist community public health nurses who provide expert advice, support and interventions to families with children in the first years of life, and help empower parents to make decisions that affect their family's future health and wellbeing. |
| hospice | Hospice | An organisation providing individual care more suited to the person who is approaching the end of life, in a gentler and calmer atmosphere than a hospital. |
| hospital | Hospital | An organisation providing patient treatment with specialised health science and auxiliary healthcare staff and medical equipment. |
| immigration-removal-centre | Immigration removal centre | An organisation providing a place where people are held for reasons relating to their immigration status. This could be: whilst immigration requests are being processed, whilst appeals against removal are being processed, or pending deportation after having had asylum applications refused. |
| independent-provider | Independent provider | A private sector organization contracted by the NHS in the provision of healthcare or in the support of the provision of healthcare. |
| independent-school | Independent school | A school that is not funded or controlled by central government and local authority; instead they are funded by way of tuition fees, donations and investments. Independent schools are also known as private schools or public schools. |
| independent-specialist-college | Independent specialist college | An institution that provides post-16 education to young people with learning difficulties and/or disabilities. Most students at specialist colleges have an Education Health and Care Plan (EHCP), with their needs unable to be met at a general further education college. |
| local-authority-fostering-service | Local authority fostering service | An organisation that operates within a local authority to help approved foster parents to provides a safe, stable home for children and young people who cannot live with their birth families. Some placements last only a short time, while others continue for much longer, depending on what each child needs. |
| london-borough-council | London borough council | An organisation acting as a single tier (unitary) council for the delivery of all services for a defined area within Greater London. |
| maintained-school | Maintained school | A school that is wholly owned and maintained by the applicable local authority. |
| metropolitan-borough-council | Metropolitan borough council | An organisation acting as a single tier (unitary) council for the delivery of all services for a defined area within one of the metropolitan counties of England. |
| optometry-practice | Optometry practice | An organisation providing general eye health care for the public such as eye tests, routine eye scans and corrective lenses. |
| orthopaedics-centre | Orthopaedics centre | An organisation offering specialised medical care for problems of the musculoskeletal system, from diagnosis to treatment. |
| pharmacy-practice | Pharmacy practice | An organisation that works directly with patients to dispense medicines, providing guidance and recommendations on which medicines to take and how to take medicines safely. They may also advise on general health and wellbeing. |
| prison | Prison | An organisation reponsible for the legal detention of persons in a secure facility as a punishment for a crime they have committed or while awaiting trial. |
| pupil-referral-unit | Pupil referral unit | An organisation that teaches children who aren't able to attend school and may not otherwise receive suitable education. This could be because they have a short- or long-term illness, have been excluded or are a new starter waiting for a mainstream school place. |
| region | Region | An administrative grouping of health boards for the purpose of cross border delivery of certain types of healthcare services. |
| residential-special-school | Residential special school | A special school which accommodates pupils overnight, including a residential maintained or non-maintained special school, or a residential independent school wholly or mainly accommodating children with special educational needs. |
| secure-accommodation-service | Secure accommodation service | An organisation that operates for a local authority to manage the assignment of children to secure accommodation in an approved environment outside of the prison system or police cell e.g. to a young offenders institution |
| secure-childrens-home | Secure children's home | An organisation providing a locked children's home environment that restricts the liberty of the young persons housed there. It is a type of youth detention accommodation and/or secure welfare accommodation that caters for children and young people between the ages of 10-17 |
| secure-training-centre | Secure training centre | An organisation providing a type of youth detention accommodation that caters for children and young people between the ages of 10-17 who are in custody. Secure training centres are usually smaller than young offender institutions and provide education, training and routine. |
| sexual-assault-referral-centre | Sexual assault referral centre | An organisation providing a safe space and dedicated care for anyone who has been raped, sexually assaulted or abused. They offer a range of services, including crisis care, medical and forensic examinations, emergency contraception and testing for sexually transmitted infections. |
| special-health-authority | Special health authority (SHA) | An NHS body which provide services on behalf of the National Health Service in the applicable country. Unlike other types of trust, they operate nationally rather than serve a specific geographical area. |
| support | Support | An organisation that supports the administration of healthcare at the level of national programmes and services. |
| Town-or-parish-council | Town or parish council | An organisation with elected members which operates at a level below district, borough and city councils or unitary authorities. They represents the needs of their local population to the applicable level of local government and can help on a number of local issues such as allotments, community centres, play areas, grants and local planning consultations. They also have powers to issue local fines e.g. for litter, graffiti, fly posting and dog offences. |
| trust | Trust | An organisation that may act as a health care providers and provide hospital services, community services and/or other aspects of patient care, such as patient transport facilities. It may also act as commissioner when sub-contracting patient care services to other providers of health care. |
| unitary-authority | Unitary authority | An organisation commissioning and coordinating the provision of essential services like education, social services, housing, waste collection, and leisure. Unitary authorities provide a single-tier local government approach, combining the functions performed by district authorities and county councils. |
| University | University | An institution in which students can study for undergraduate and graduate degrees |
| young-offenders-institution | Young offenders institution | An organisation reponsible for the legal detention of youth offenders in a secure facility as a punishment for a crime they have committed or while awaiting trial, focusing on rehabilitation through education and skill development. |
