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OBRETASTAS

PART 4E OBJECTIVES OF THE DEPARTMENT

General Aims of the Department

1. Health and Personal Social Services

To promote the health and social welfare of the people of Northern Ireland through the provision of a balanced mix of quality services including greater emphasis on prevention and care in the community, together with improvements in cost effectiveness in services provision and management.

2.

Social Legislation

3.

To promote and maintain social legislation in line with current thinking and practice taking into account local perspectives and to provide birth, death and marriage registration and population

censuses.

Social Security

To provide, within the Government's wider social and economic policies and in parity with Great Britain, an efficient and rasponsive system of financial help for the unemployed, the sick, the retired and those in need.

Key Objectives for 1990-94

Health and Personal Social Services

1

3-

Feview and roll forward the targets

and objectives set out in the

Regional Strategy.

complete mid term review

b. develop new Regional Strategy

Implement the Health Service reforms in "Working for Patients" and the community care changes proposed in "People First".

a. lay draft Order in Council

before Parliament to come into effect by 1 April 1991

Publish the Management Plan for the HPSS

Make the Children Order

and associated subordinate legislation and bring it into effect.

Tegeta 1990/91

September 1990

March 1991

January 1991

May 1990

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