For secondary care there is a mix of public, private, and charitable hospitals.

The "secondary care" is sometimes used synonymously with "hospital care".

It proposes that general practitioners control funds for all primary and secondary care.

The budgets for primary and secondary care will need to be integrated to permit appropriate transfer of resources.

Local hospitals with multiple departments can be used to provide secondary care.

Similarly, there are no restrictions on referrals to secondary care, although long waiting times act as a limitation in practice.

Given the current arrangements in primary and secondary care, it is hardly surprising that there has been so little assessment of efficiency to date.

Referral facilities for primary, secondary and tertiary care are important to effective community health work.

It is intended for medical practitioners working in all clinical settings including primary and secondary care.

Are there significant areas of difficulty likely to require active involvement of a social worker with an individual or a family as in secondary care?